These are top 10 linux distros of the past year.
Discuss.
These are top 10 linux distros of the past year
Aaron Taylor
Jackson Wilson
I see only 6 distios.
Lucas Campbell
Manjaro is owning Arch? That is hilarious.
Also, Mint comes with a preinstalled link to Distrowatch, so the list is completely biased in Mint's favor. Fuck that nonsense
Bentley Perez
That can't be right because #1 is Android.
Oliver Thompson
Why isn't TAILS #1 24/7/365?
Jeremiah Moore
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Christopher Wright
I don't trust that list just because nobody fucking uses Manjaro
Jason Hernandez
Based Manjaro!
People who get shit done instead of ricing and distro hoping are using Manjaro quietly every day.
Eli Walker
>Manjaro is owning Arch? That is hilarious.
Isn't Manjaro just Arch plus a GUI installer, for people who are too clueless to partition a disk? Tbh Manjaro beating Arch fits perfectly with my mental model of the average Arch user.
Julian Cook
"The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website"
I knew these numbers were bullshit.
Kayden Campbell
distrowatch.com
link for those interested.
If anything, it just means people wonder what the hell manjaro is.
Christopher Mitchell
Genuinely surprised that Debian and Ubuntu aren't above Mint, which is just a distro based on a distro based on a distro, haha. Basically just Ubuntu with cinnamon preinstalled and some Mint branding.
Parker Ramirez
It's also fucking terrible.
Arch installs run flawlessly, the 2 times I tried manjaro it has always ended in a shitshow.
Leo Cruz
Only good distros I have ever used:
Debian, Crunchbang (Kinda), Arch.
Fuck everything else.
Wyatt Morris
they all sucks fuck systemd
Jordan Morales
It has a nice default asthetic for KDE and XFCE.
It also has GUI frontends for driver and kernel managements. A lot of convenient "just werks" shit for people who don't have time for config file autism or are tech illiterate.
Christian Cooper
>trueos
>linux
Zachary Edwards
No manjaro isn't just a GUI installer for arch, it maintains its own dedicated software repositories to ensure delivery of fully tested and stable software packages, and support for the easy installation and use of multiple kernels.
It comes with some nice preinstalled packages with some basic config and theming done. Also has a nice tool for automatic hardware detection.
I'm curerently on Manjaro, pretty /comfy/ so far
Michael Cox
I use Manjaro btw
Wyatt Gonzalez
it's because arch is hard to install for entry-level normies
i am surprised elementary os is more popular than fedora
Michael Roberts
No, that's the ranking of distros that get looked up on that one site.
Isaac Bailey
does battery life depend on the distro or thats just a kernel thing?
Robert Perez
>Not listing the distros by average rating
Why aren't you SalentOS right now?
Luis Taylor
No Linux wizard visits or gives a fuck about distrowatch
Colton Evans
stats.wikimedia.org
Linux Other 2,170 M
Linux Ubuntu 1,238 M
Linux Fedora 53.6 M
Linux Mint 6.4 M
distrowatch just counts number of clicks, not users
Adrian Clark
>TrueOS is linux
Oh my god kill me god please just let me release
Kayden Fisher
10 for 10, bb
Justin Garcia
No these are the most searched distro on distrowatch, not even google.
Christopher Gray
See this: That list basically shows the most popular distros among distro hoppers.
Parker Baker
>Manjaro is #2
>Antergos is #5
What did they mean by this?
Isaiah Green
>more people are using a fucking iPad to browse Wikipedia than an actual iMac
>iPhone users are the second largest group
>modern Apple users are literally (LITERALLY) mobile users
Easton Gutierrez
ubuntu should be #1 with 18.04 release
debian is fine
everything else is an unsupported joke until you get to opensuse
Nathan Brown
Hmm, so Windows is gonna be for PCs, Mac becomes the mobile OS, and Linux for experimental/tinkering stuff? Hmm, maybe there's some kind of OS convergence in the future...
Logan Lopez
are you blind?
Brayden Morgan
why is manjaro a joke?
Leo Barnes
I'd be embarrassed to use Manjaro or Antergos.
Landon Thomas
>Mint
>Ubuntu
>elementary
one
>Debian
two
>Antergos
>Solus
>Manjaro
Three
>Fedora core
Four
>OpenSUSE
Five
>TrueOS
not a linux???
Daniel Walker
why? I use it and I'm not embarresed, why should I?
why are you grouping them together like that, they might be based on eachother but they're hardly the same
Ryan Cooper
It is like saying OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a different distro with OpenSUSE Leap.
Leo Richardson
>everything else is an unsupported joke until you get to opensuse
Fedora is quite good, I say it as suse user.
I just dont like their support cycles
James Thomas
>tfw kevin shilled solus to sixth place
Charles Richardson
>debian separate from ubuntu
Ayyyyyyyyy
Caleb Jones
you know what solus does right? i really like it's audio interface. you can switch audio outputs in two clicks from the gui. but then it doesn't have a win+p monitor switch utility. or at least that was the case half a year ago when i tried it. not really the worst distro ive ever used (debian) but not very remarkable either
Austin Johnson
>you can switch audio outputs in two clicks from the gui.
pavucontrol works in any distro.
I wouldn't expect a distro hopping bottom feeder raving about distro's apps like they are specific to anything to know that though.
Liam Barnes
I've accidently
James Sanchez
>in solus
>click audio icon from task bar
>popup gui click "audio from hdmi" or "speakers"
>in anything else
>click audio
>click open pavu control
>go to the last tab
>scroll through 30 listings and press off on the audio device you are currently using
>scroll through another 30 listings on the device you want to use and then click on
>do this every single time you want to switch audio outputs
note im not even saying solus system is perfect, windows does it better is in it automagically switches to the audio output being used based on a preference on plug system, but solus does it better than pavucontrol
Kayden Garcia
Why is mint higher than ubuntu? Isn't ubuntu the most beginner / paneer friendly out of all of them? Mint is newer to the party.
Samuel Richardson
This
Tyler Morgan
You know why, user... you know why.
Gavin Smith
> Mint on top
no surprise there
Asher Morgan
>mint,manjaro and debian above Ubuntu
Where did you get this from? Seems off.
Jordan Moore
yeah there is no way manjaro is more popular than ubuntu
Jose Hill
The fuck, why is mint so high? Is it because muh Windows feel?
You'd think the userbase would jump shit with how unsecured they've been the last years.
Michael Walker
stop trolling
Aiden Phillips
only new people introduced to gnu/linux take distrowatch into consideration.
tldr distro watch is for fucking nigger faggots
just use debian, arch or gentoo. Everything else is fucking cancer. For bsds, openbsd is the best.
Oliver Flores
>''wow what? Linux mint was cracked and backdoored?'"
>click counter heats up
>suddenly linux mint nr.1 distro
And this is the story about how the worst distro became the most popular distro.
Brandon Foster
based interjection poster
Asher Perry
>Solus
>Antergos
>Manjaro
Why are they grouped together?
Jackson Bennett
too bad that most average ratings are shit.
as something may be voted for 50 times and get perfect score
Angel Thompson
I love elementary but holy hell does it need better UI scaling
Julian Lopez
won't be coming until the next major release after Juno...
so 2020 most likely
Isaac Cooper
>Page Hit Ranking
Jow Forums is dead
Kayden Howard
literally who?
Kevin Evans
I thought Ubuntu was more popular.
Adrian Bailey
If popular = better, then we'd all be on windows...
Jeremiah Adams
Looks pretty comfy desu.
>Based on Debian stable
>Openbox
>Nice wallpaper
>Made by Italians
Aaron Baker
I like all those things but why not just use Debian and Openbox?
Brody Hall
Because SalentOS is more obscure and probably has some different packages installed and preconfigured
Jack Morgan
antergos and manjaro are Arch based, but not solus
Ryan Garcia
ah #! the memories... i miss that distro
Parker Jenkins
openSUSE > Solus > Debian > Fedora > Ubuntu > Antergos > TrueOS > Mint > Manjaro > elementary
Never hear
Jackson Allen
suprised manjaro is so high
Alexander James
ubuntu > bsd > ubuntu
u wot?
Ethan Phillips
W-where's Gentoo?
Isaac Walker
That was my point, so why were they grouped together?
Was op just dumb?
Thomas Wood
I see 10 shitty distros desu~
Dylan James
Gentoo is not very popular outside of memes, they are actually running low on portage package maintainers.
It's still a very good distro, and will likely outlast all the distro du jour shit in the OP.
Josiah Phillips
I'm a newfag as far as linux goes, and I've been trying out a bunch of different distros.
a lot of them don't support my monitor setup without a shit ton of fiddling, and the blinky artifact thing drives me up the wall.
I've been diddling around w.linus on and off for near 20 years, and while it's much better now, most are not ready for widespread acceptance.
I will, however keep at it, because I wanna get off the windows once and for all.
Luis Phillips
>mint
eww
>manjaro
eww
>debian
ok
>ubuntu
eww
>antergos
eww
>solus
eww
>elementary
eww
>fedora
eww
>opensuse
eww
>trueos
eww
Landon Lewis
>debain and ubango are the same!
wiki.debian.org
Asher James
What's hilarious is how often Manjaro users report bugs to Arch devs.
Jaxson Russell
Probably a spambot.
Benjamin Hill
MX is legit.
Luis Brooks
love mint. fuck the rest.
Gavin Bailey
Used it for a few months, but updates broke it too often so I moved on.
Brody Barnes
This (even though i prefer debian these days). Jow Forums doesn't actually care about the security concerns it had in the past. They just hate any distro that tries make things easier on the end-user.
Liam Cooper
I'd say there's at least 7 despacitos
Isaac Green
no they aren't. It's a list of page hits to a website