So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

  • Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
  • Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

  • Distro (first-level comment)
    • Reason (one answer)
    • Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

  •  sophs [she/her]   ( @s0phia@beehaw.org ) 
    2•1 year ago

    It used to be Fedora, it is everything I liked. It’s got updated packages, is stable, I liked the package manager besides being the slowest among them. But with all the Red Hat kerfuffle, I no longer feel like I can use it knowing I’m contributing to RHEL.

    Anyway, Arch was my close second and now it is my preferred distro for desktop! Pacman is awesome, the AUR as well, and I like knowing how every little thing in my system works because I’m forced to set it up manually.