This is a rewiew of all the linux distro I have tried. You can use this rewiew as a guide if you are confused on what linux distro you should choose. Keep in mind that this is only MY personal opinion.
It is a rolling release distribution with the package manager pacman.
I really like the idea of not putting a GUI installer (even if these days you could use the archinstall script), so basically you
can customize everything.
I also like the idea of rolling release so you do not have to wait for the next version with the newer packages to be available,
instead you just run sudo pacman -Syu.
The AUR (Arch User Repository) has basically every package available in linux, which is very useful if you are a newbie
and you do not know how to compile packages. The only flaw is that the distro uses systemD, which is a little bloated.
Like Arch Linux but you can choose init system and there is a graphical installer option.
LTS distro with very old packages in the repos. The package manager is O.K. I guess...
It separates nonfree packages clearly, but they recently decided to iclude them in the standard edition (there were 2
editions: one without nonfree blobs and one with).
It offers different DEs in the download page which is nice if you do not know how to install one (you cannot do sudo apt
install, you have to use a program to do so).
Debian trash edition: it is dictated by Canonical, encourages the usage of proprietary software which has bloaty and
useless Snap.
Filled with proprietary trash and even SOME SPYWARE BY DEFAULT.
Colaborates with big tech such as Amazon and Nvidia, puah.
It has the same requisites (at least 4GB ram and a modern CPU) as Windows 11
Ubuntu but with Cinnamon instead of GNOME (a bit better) and flatpak instead of snap (a bit worse).
Same as Ubuntu except it uses Arch as a base and if you update it GRUB collapses.
Ubuntu MATE (or Lubuntu if you are downloading the mini edition) but it uses Linux-Libre (Linux without proprietary
firmware) and does not recommend proprietary software.
It is based on Arch but has the Linux-libre kernel and a OpenRC edition if you do not want SystemD.
The deafult repos are not very well maintained, but the rest is O.K.
It offers a graphical LXDE installer options at labs.parabola.nu with SystemD or OpenRC.
A rolling release distro with Runit as init system and xbps as package manager.
It has it`s own package builder xbps-src which is very nice if you want to download packages from GitHub.
It also has a semi-graphical installer option.
Very nice distro: it is just vanilla GNU (with Linux-libre kernel) plus the guix package manager which is very well made
and I love it: you can do a lot of stuff: roll back, create your own packages, edit packages, atomic transactions...
The packages are very up-to-date because it is a rolling release.
It uses GNU shepherd as init and there is a TUI installer option.
Super lightweight and fast.
Indipendent distro with slackpkg. It installs a lot of unneeded packages plus all the major desktop environments by default. The packages are super old. It is good only if you want to build the packages from source.
It is because is not very relevant e. g. KDE neon: kubuntu with up-to date KDE, or if I missed it you can contact me at: francescofusco@disroot.org.