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And maybe for gaming.
Where would you put MX Linux?
It doesn't matter, what matter is where would you put it.@@radoslew
@@wassim-akkari what a stupid comment. I just want to know HIS opinion. That's the point of the whole video. If it doesn't matter, then why did you watch it?
Have you tried mint with xfce?
I switched to Linux Mint around a seven years ago and have never looked back. Why would anyone pay for Microsoft spyware?
Despite playing around with Ubuntu in the past, Linux Mint is my first personal daily driver Linux after switching from Windows 10 since last summer. I'm quite happy for it.
Cause I have software and niche devices for work that only work with windows 😢
Because of apps that don't run on Linux
It's also because they don't know any better
I tried elementary and Zorin this year, before eventually fleeing back to LMDE.
16:09 It's not mentioned in the video because you might have missed it, but Nobara has actually switched to using KDE as its main DE, and while the Gnome version exists it currently ships without any extensions so it's just the default experience. The dev talked a lot about it in a post, but be aware that it doesn't look like this anymore.
True, I didn’t re-review it since!
Great choice on the part of the Nobara team.
After being a Windows user since Windows 98/ME I have made the decision to finally run Linux as my main OS on my private machine. So far I had a great time with Nobara and since I have been using open software for most of my usecases for a while the switch was much easier than anticipated.
@@Th3Rom3 I'm flirting with the idea of moving to Linux from Windows, and Nobara was the one that tickled my fancy. I find Nobara interesting.
@@nutbunny10 I’ve never heard of Nobra.
Subjective videos are a very good strategy to get lots of comments. 😂
True 😅
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Subjective videos are the only Truthful way of doing these. Being objective is an illusion. You might try to be objective but your biases seep their way in through and you end up being subjective while making it look objective. Trying to be objective is an exercise in futility, just try to be as accurate and truthful as possible and continuously question yourself and keep learning.
@@8lec_R That’s a very common mistake: objectivity isn’t about bias. Objectivity has to do with 2 things: 1) The source data must be well known and the observation must be reproducible the same way with the same results. If there is subjectivity on the source data, that’s a source data’s problem. 2) The author must be honest and clear about their own bias, letting the watchers decide how to deal with it.
@@Montegasppa yes. And that's what I'm trying to get across. There's no way you can be objective the way we typically think of objectivity. In other words you can't be impartial in general. I'd like to use the word the way you use it but unfortunately most people don't. So I'd end up causing confusion
When I installed Arch, I expected almost daily problems. Yet, months after I switched to it, I have had only a single problem, which was because of KDE, not Arch itself. I am very surprised to this day.
Been using Arch for a decade and really only recall 2 times updates actually broke things in all that time (A proprietary Nvidia driver issue and the GRUB issue last year). I really think its people using too many AUR packages that ends up being the problem. With flatpak a lot of the AUR packages people were using to get 3rd party apps really arent as critical anymore.
Running the same Arch installation for ~3 years, in my main machine. Using everyday, problems only when I try to use gnome/kde.
Rolling releases make huge amounts of sense for internet-connected desktop systems. Only thing with Arch is that there is a greatly increased chance of issues if you update infrequently (e.g. every few months), and don't read the pacman news. Some package updates can (and have) assume that a prior update was installed first.
Yeah, arch surprisingly stable, except when the AUR is involved. I could feel my arch slowly crumbling after I installed an AUR helper.
Why would anybody run an OS with daily problems, let alone so many people that it becomes a meme? Don't think it's surprising.
For elementaryOS, I will say that for anyone whose use case requires accessibility functions, the developers have really excelled in providing toggles for dyslexia, various types of colorblindness, and speech-guided installation, in addition to the usual accessibility apps that you can find in general distros. This is obviously not part of Nick's use case, but is worth trying out for anyone who might need additional accessibility options
Does Mint have anything like this?
@@comradestannis I can't remember exactly how it works on Mint, but I know for sure that it's not as easy as a single flip of a switch in the accessibility page of the Settings app, like it is on elementaryOS
When elementaryOS 7.1 came out, a review mentioned the accessibility aspects, and I read their release notes, which mentioned working with users specifically to enhance these aspects. Would be great to see similar initiatives in other distros.
@@kellenhight thnx
5:24 I think it's worth mentioning, too, that elementaryOS doesn't offer an upgrade path between major versions; you MUST reinstall. This is a nightmare for regular end users, something I couldn't offer to someone, say, my mom. Aside from that, my only other gripes keeping me from it is the lack of a tiling window manager (only splitscreen tiling) and the AppCenter is it's own store so it's missing a LOT of packages, even common things like Discord and Spotify. It's such a shame because I find eOS beautiful and I love their design language and philosophy for the most part. I hope new things come soon!
This is a great point. I've seen this on smaller distros. I run Bodhi Linux on a very old laptop and have had to reinstall when wanting to upgrade to a later release. It's Tedious having to capture files and applications I want to keep. I could make a separate home partion and back it up, but shouldn't have to in 2024.
You can still use flatpack when there was no your apps on AppCenter..
This is what I'm worried about as well. I want Elementary OS to succeed since it looks awesome and would otherwise be a great distro for the everyday user who prefers Mac OS, so I REALLY hope their devs fix this soon.
after configuring for several days DWM on Arch linux, running separately from my KDE session, its really not worth it the time invested. Sure looked exactly like how I wanted it but fixing some details would force me to invest several more hours. I liked the simplicity and increase in productivity but the experience should become more modular and less time consuming
Their "design language" is just to copy macOS. I think elementaryOS is a net loss for the Linux desktop because it leads newbys to this macOS-lookalike instead of the two actually good desktops.
We're glad to see Fedora so high up on the list! Constant improvements and innovation always! 💙
Hopefully fedora will improve based on the feedback :)
I tried Fedora 39, but it wouldn’t recognize my HP Deskjet printer so switched back to Linux Mint (which recognizes it immediately upon WiFi connection).
Given the problems from a year ago, I understand your reluctance to recommend Solus. They have changed their organizational structure, adding much needed redundancy so they are no longer dependent on a single person. There is new management, a plan that has shown fruit and the future is bright there.
NixOS mentioned! update: davinci-resolve has been broken in nixpkgs for months but nvidia drivers do work, you just need to setup correctly. I've been using NixOS with nvidia drivers for over a year now, it only crashed like 5 times (with hyprland).
Yeah, I resolved to using it in Distrobox, but even then, it wouldn't play nice with Pipewire. Granted, DaVinci Resolve is a packaging nightmare and doesn't even play nice on its supported distros. I ended up having to use a separate install of Fedora 39 with Fedora 38 in Distrobox to finally get it to run flawlessly - no other single distribution would work fully (i.e. without GPU, audio, sync or stuttering issues).
I've been tracking the progress on resolve in nixos - it looks like there is a passing pull request awaiting approval as we speak.
@@FrosthavenLiveThat was my only issue with NixOS. I loved the concept of declaring your system, but some packages move way too slow. There’s a nixpkg for XP-Pen drawing tablets that is crucial for my workflow, but it’s been waiting a fix from a PR that has not been merged in for months.
@@ybenax yeah I hear you on that. If you aren't in the business of maintaining your own wrappers you are at the mercy of the maintainers. NixOS is my favorite platform by far, but it is certainly not a distro I recommend to most people.
@@ybenax Flake exists
As a Tumbleweed user I would put that Distro in the Best Category. It has YAST, has a out-of-the-box graphical installer included and has a European/Germany based Company with a Enterprise foundation behind it. Its a Rolling Release which might be second fastest to deliver new packages behind Arch, but thats because its better tested imho. The Distro is much more stable than Arch. But I might be biased with my Daily Driver Distro ;-)
Over the years I have used Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora in that order. I used Fedora since 31. OpenSuse Tumbleweed has replaced Fedora for me. I came here for 'the best KDE distro' and I stayed for YaST.
I would like to agree. Installed Fedora KDE with Wayland on my system, many crashesk, and packagekit was really buggy, then installed tumbleweed KDE with wayland, no problems and rock stable. My first real linux experience and running strong since November. I really like tumbleweed for the experience so far.
I really want to like Tumbleweed, and I've given it multiple goes - but I've had consistent issues with my printer. I use a Brother HL-L3230CDW, and do not like to use the proprietary drivers. Without them, I've never been able to get duplexing working, which is a necessity for my work. Other than that, I wasn't a big fan of the ProtonVPN app for Tumbleweed, but that's not the fault of the team either. I'm currently on LinuxMint 21.3 - and I'm quite enjoying the simplicity. I changed away from Fedora because of the RedHat kerfuffle... Personally I like the idea of install once, use forever - hence the appeal of Tumbleweed for me, and I appreciate the Yast suite. I'll probably give it another go soon, just because I really want it to succeed for me
I recently switched from Arch to TW and it seems that it was the best decision I could have made (although I miss the plethora of audio plugins Arch has in its official repos and AUR)
I probably would too if the installer would be better. In case of installation comfort Tumbleweed is the worst distro I've tried so far. Compared with e.g. EndeavourOS or Mint OpenSuse feels like a decade behind... Apart from that I liked testing Tumbleweed. But in the end I moved to Endeavour. Actually not sure why...
I'm rooting for Solus to succeed so much; they really have something special there and it'd be a shame for it to not get the support it deserves
Currious, what is Solus offering others don't? Not familiar eith the distro.
@@maximebeaudoin4013 Rolling release and you will not get daily updates! That was my criteria for a distro. Yes so does opensuse tumbleweed but solus does not have that confusing yast
@@maximebeaudoin4013 its not a fork.. its his own thing.. got its own repo.. first distro to come out with budgie desktop among many other things
Agreed - I don't use it but the times I've taken a look at it it seems very unique and nice
@@pikachusolu1606 For similar reasons I chose voidlinux for my dualboot setup. Still are there distuguishing feature appart from not being a fork (which is great in its own right).
I understand your reasoning for arch and we all have different experiences with computing but if I were making the list arch and endeavour would go to good category, I'd never in good faith say it's great for everyone or is my go to distro for recommendation but it's what I use daily and ironically the one I've had least problems with.
I typed a similar comment lol. EndeavorOS has been the best linux experience I have ever had, especially with gaming. It also got me comfortable enough that I could use Arch if I ever decide to change but frankly I love endeavor and have no desire to distro hop any time soon.
@@Masta_E EndeavourOS is so good.
I really wonder where the reputation comes from because same for me. Arch been the smoothest, most comfortable OS experience I've ever had lol. Pacman is great and the AUR rules.
I'm still yet to actually/properly make the transition to Linux, meaning I'm generally a "Linux newbie", but EndeavourOS ended being my choice after testing a few other distros, including Mint, Peppermint and Pop. It just seemed the best from all the options I've tried.
Can a newbie use endeavor?
I love Gentoo (and Portage and OpenRC) but I only recommend it for people who wants to understand how a Linux system is working (great documentation on their website). For the others, I recommand Linux Mint.
I love my Gentoo too. The main feature is ability to compile any program that I need, easy applying upstream patches, when something serious happen.
@@mkyral It is also easy to apply your own patches if you want to customize a program in one way or another, and have your patches automatically apply to updates (if they will still apply), I have no desire to run anything else, completely satisfied with Gentoo.
I haven't used Gentoo in years. However, back around 2005, I accepted a Sun Sparc Ultra 10 workstation in part payment for some website work I'd done. Trying to run Solaris on it was painful so I had the idea of using it as a test web server. At the time, Gentoo was the only Linux distribution I found that could do a minimal LAMP install on Sparc. It was great for learning how to get a Linux system up and running, but it did take ages because of all the compiling needed. Around 2010 I found that Gentoo had become a bit unstable as Sparc wasn't exactly a popular platform so I suspect that bugs were slipping through. In 2011 I picked up a free AMD-based PC to replace the Ultra 10 and moved to Ubuntu Server instead and the Ultra eventually got given away to someone who had more use for it.
Me too! There's a thing that irks me. This adversity or fear of compiling. How is this still an issue for people nowadays, which run it on modern computers is a bit beyond me. Unless you have 5 browsers and you want to compile all of them and also not use clang, then there's no issue with compiling. It's decently fast and can be done in the background with no issues. Or at night / in some pause. That being said, I'd still not recommend Gentoo to normal users. But that's because if you don't want to tinker with it, like choosing what you have in your kernel, and what packages you use in general, and the use flags you want, then there's no point in using Gentoo. And if you're not interested in what I wrote above, then having to do it IS a hassle most people would not want to deal with. I just wish people would be more aware of the points above. It would probably not change much, but still, I like being precise. It help moving things further/forward.
@@Winnetou17Well there are people who genuinely fear the command-line, so I can imagine what thousands of compiling output with `CC` `CCX` Clang, Warning and whatnot can make to them.
With better documentation and package consistency, and maybe an official graphical tool to configure NixOS for beginners-ish, I would put NixOS higher up in my favourite distros. I still use it as my main and only distribution, but it does have its issues.
Debian should be in "good" if not "great". Rock solid stability, huge amounts of forum and developer support, has zero drama, has flatpak support for keeping your required apps up to date, is very secure etc. Yes KDE/Gnome might not get new features, but that's a problem for when you do this in 2025 because as of now, KDE on Debian is "the latest version".
I agree. Although KDE Plasma 6 just dropped two weeks ago there's nothing in it that requires an immediate upgrade. Debian 13 will ship with Plasma 6 next year after it has been thoroughly tested and incorporated so I honestly don't see why the average user needs to rush to get the latest version unless it has something they urgently need. Which will not be many people. It's silly to want to rank the most stable, easiest to use and safest distro as average simply because it doesn't allow you to break your OS with untested software. I'd love to know why someone who uses his daily driver to make content and run a business needs to have the latest bleeding edge desktop immediately upon launch, bugs and all. He seemed to be doing just fine with 5.27 at the time he made this video which, like you said, is the version Debian 12 ships with.
Yes. Debian is amazing for people that love Linux but don't want the stress of their computer that they use to do actual work being affected by all the drama and constant evolution/instability. Definitely top tier.
Mint and Fedora are so wonderful to run, in my case. Just missed both of my dear brazilians distro: BigLinux and Regata OS
Can't wait to try out VanillaOS Orchid. Imagine a sudo free immutable system with every Linux-software there is and trace-free rollback support by design. :****** Yes, you said it, it was very subjective -- but it's always fun to watch your content. Stay the way you are!
I've been running Gentoo since 2004 and love the control over my system. The distro doesn't force anything on you but is all about choice. As for the computers for my family members I've been running Manjaro on several computers for years as I find it faster to install than Arch proper. Never had any problems at all. I don't follow distro politics so I have no idea about the behind the scenes stuff.
same, Arch it's ok if you don't need a specific version of app...
The simple trick to Arch is not to update everyday. Just update once a week or once few weeks.
So basically Manjaro?
yep same for me and didn't have any issues running arch for 6 years now ... also try not to use aur so much :) its good but keep in mind some packages might get left behind ... when that happens remove them and get new ones
@@lufazim yes, manjaro without manjaro's problems
See that sounds fine until you realize that any potential substance abuse problem I would theoretically have has been replaced with an "update Arch" abuse problem, I just like seeing funny version number go up
often had trouble as well when updating after a month or few months or something, I'd love to go bleeding edge but updating on Arch stresses me out a lot more than on a stable release.
I would like to see MX Linux added to this list. I have been using it for a while and I really love it. I even have it on a rescue USB because it has disk tools that work in the live environment.
+1 I like MX using Xfce as it's the only distro I know w/ a vertical panel that works and that does not need a horizontal bar/panel. On wide displays, especially 16:9, this saves a lot of space.
I agree. MXLinux has been at the top of Distrowatch for a couple of years. It simply works well, right out of the box. I think the reviewer shortchanged the audience.
@@dandavis5464 Not a couple of weeks but rather more than a couple years...more..
I personally use Timeshift, timeshift-grub2 and timeshift-autosnap when using Arch Linux. They're just automatically snapshot when I update the system. If the system's broken, I will just have to select the working snapshot in the Grub menu in the most cases.
Also thanks for Linux Mint team for developing Timeshift!
I liked openSUSE snapshots best. It is even built into YAST if you change settings. I have setup timeshift (3 years ago I think) on mint, ubunut, fedora, and arch and it was pretty great once integrated into bootmanager, package manager, and regularly scheduled. Real Backup should be so easy.
I would replace the SSD every 3-4 years if your a heavy user, because you are rewriting a lot.
@@STONE6969I forgot to mention that I'm using BTRFS option rather than rsync though I'm not pretty sure if CoW would be better
@@STONE6969 Not with BTRFS
puts pop os in the avoid catagory. internal screaming. I love the gui in pop os. its really useful for me and better than modern gnome
Yeah, I found it really odd that he placed Pop_OS in "avoid" because the desktop hadn't changed in two years, but then put Linux Mint in the top tier! Surely Linux Mint is the epitomy of an desktop which hasn't changed?!?!?
pop will eat itself
I tried many distros, but I find pop the most stable OS. I'm a developer and I love this OS.
@@ashokchoudhary8305 Same pop seems to always work for me. ubuntu would always have its ui crash. pop os seems just well so good
Love your content and presentation skills. I've recently switched from Windows to Linux, approximately 3 months now and use you videos as guides to help make distro and software choices. I have now plumped for Nobara 39, it needed a few tweaks but we got there
I don't use Mint but I feel like it's really the gold standard for what a general-purpose, beginner-friendly distro should be. I've never heard of anyone having a bad experience with it
I have had minor problems, but I have yet to find anything better. For example, I tried installing the latest 21.3 'Virginia' from a bootable USB stick, but it just would not boot. I tried booting with the previous image instead and that worked fine.
@@PropaneWP I would guess (just a guess, since I don't know your machine) that your failed boot was because of UEFI instead the install image. It is supposed to be a universal system that just works, but the number of times I have had to physically open and unplug drives to get UEFI boot partition information to 'make sense' to the motherboard really reminds me of the old IDE days of swapping jumpers on pins. It is especially annoying when a motherboard has options to disable some of the drive controllers, but not all. I've even had a Windows installer put the Windows boot loader on a portable Linux drive, so when the portable drive wasn't plugged in, the motherboard didn't even know there was a bootable hard drive with Windows on it in the computer.
Mint is great to cut your Linux teeth on. It was the methadone I used to get off the smack that is Windoze. I've been Windoze Sober since 2015
It's outdated now. The core packages. It's still based on Ubuntu LTS. This is the only down side for me. As a developer
@@MelroyvandenBerg What do you think about LMDE?
Fun fact: I had more issues with OS breaking or bugging on Fedora than I ever had on vanilla Arch
ive had the opposite experience, but suse has worked the best for me so far
Same anything but arch (and probably base debian) seems to hate my hardware.
@@iamnama999 Maybe it's because I rarely need the AUR. Any system package could also eventually break when updating a rolling release distro, but at that point it gets all about luck on the timing.
@@telldo8016 I suspect this is the case. I also limit AUR usage on systems I care about keeping stable and rarely have issues. As much as I like access to AUR, Ive found that it can quickly break things if overused.
@@TheXipherZero If that's the case, it's not the distro itself being unreliable rather its community repository. Disclaimer: I'm not trying to fanboy here, I just think it's unfair comparing apples with pears.
Hopefully, Pop!_OS bounces back with a good 24.04... It was my first distro, and I'd love to see them back in the spotlight this year. They took a lot of time to develop the Cosmic DE, but I'll keep my fingers crossed that it succeeds. As for Manjaro, I'm very disappointed with how it's been (mis)managed. It had the chance of becoming the good version of Ubuntu for the Arch family, but I don't think the dev team knows what they want or what Manjaro is supposed to be anymore.
I hope so too. I hope Cosmic is great as they are my current distro and something that checks my current boxes.
EndeavourOS is what Manjaro wishes it could be. Check it out if you haven't already.
I use pop os on my laptop so i'm excited to see what is in store when these update finally come.
Fedora has always been my go to. It brings new features quickly and is quite stable overall. Love it!
For me it just works and it's enough for work)
The only issue with Fedora is RedHat.
It's been my main distro for two years now and it works so well I'm almost getting bored of it lol
anytime i end up distro hopping from time to time to see whats new, i always end up back on Fedora. Has been my go to for many years now.
I always liked Fedora and settled on it for my daily driver last year. This year after an update my external monitor stopped working. 😮 I was so happy, but to lose a basic but important function after an update is not acceptable. 😢
Ubuntu has been my go to since 16.04 with me occasionally trying other distributions. It just works for me, all the programs are available for it, and it is the same OS as I run on all my servers. I have also used Linux Mint a lot and it is great for people who want a no-fuss intro to Linux.
Version 16.04 was brilliant. Booting the system and launching applications slowed to a crawl with Snap in 20.04, sadly.
@@vezquex Yes but you can quickly rip that out and install flatpack and add a file to make it where it won't auto download snaps with apt. Nowadays though, snaps startup pretty quick as they seem to have largely fixed that. Plus snap is really useful in the server environment for installing things like Nextcloud easily and backing them up.
Honestly I just use a mix of flatpaks and snaps, for me it's definitely the best of gnome distros if you want long term consistency. I use fedora ashai, I don't have many gripes with Fedora but I don't really want to recommend the mainline release to people who want a consistent system. Also stock gnome is a bit hard to use or recommend to someone out of the box, however the list they listed was for Nick so I get why he hates ubuntu @vezquex
Laggy snap updates and Logseq snap dropping plugins spoil them to me. I am using Kubuntu now, but I suspect I will jump to Tuxedo OS on the next one, as it does not use snaps.
Ubuntu is amazing for server. Snaps are very good for servers but for daily use they are inferior to flatpak. They should give us an option to choose if we want snaps or flatpak or whatever out of the box. So people who like snaps can use them and don't like don't have to use them or spend time removing them and risk kstuff breaking .
As a recovering Windows user, I really like Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment.
Mint is what made Linux fun for me and I've been using it on my main PC since. I tried Manjaro and Arcolinux, Fedora and handful of other mainstream distro, but Mint is just really enjoyable to use and tweak.
Same. I've since tried Nobara, which had problems installing and running properly and Garuda which didn't support all the software I need to use. I decided to go back to Mint.
Using MX Linux KDE on daily driver because it is stable and easy to use with default firewall sett. Got Gecko Linux Rolling KDE on second laptop to see how the Plasma 6 transition turns out before switching my daily driver. Gexko Linux has the benefits of Tumbleweed and is the only distro that handled all my hardware. I will need to learn how to setup UFW on my laptop for home and away, maybe that's something you could cover. Previously used Manjaro XFCE, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora,, Solaris, Mandeake, Corel Linux as daily drivers.
I'd never use MX Linux- super woke. The devs come from Anti-X Linux which puts links to all these sites about communism in the browser. No thanks.
I don't know about your experient with arch, It was hard for me at first, but after getting it done it's just perfect. (for me)
I used Pop OS for 6 months, and when i messed it up, i decided to switch to Debian, because of newer desktop environment and Wayland touchpad gestures on Gnome (i forgot about my mouse) Had to tinker to install Nvidia drivers, but once everything is setup, it works great for me I recommend separate /home partition if you have space on your SSD, it is better when you mess up and easier to distro hop
My Arch won’t boot and I’m thinking of switching to an Ubuntu-based Distro, is it possible to use my Arch /home directory to a new Distro without formatting it?
@@Nuteramuyeah, copy /home to a backup drive, make sure that you have sufficient storage Then install distro with separate /home partition and copy user directory from backup to /home on freshly installed distro When installing new OS, make sure to set your /home partition without formatting and same filesystem
@@ZEMRALEX I see, thanks!
Which nvidia drivers did you install? The one from repo or latest from nvidia website? I had some issues with nvidia on wayland so I had to use x11
For people like me who initially chose Manjaro but are too lazy to reinstall everything, switch it to testing branch. You'll get more frequent updates and will have almost no breakages that way. My installation was fine for more than an year that way now.
i like void linux because it's very minimal by default meaning you can shape your system how you want, while having an easier time doing that than installing manually like gentoo
And more stable than arch
I'm a student and I use manjaro KDE. I use it for kde's customisation/looks and pacman's speed. I have heard that pacman is the fastest of them all. I also like the minty green look of manjaro. I did come into issues but I had with other distros too. Using linux for 3 years. Happy to be a linux intermediate.😁😄😄
I would just place Debian higher as it's the one distro, used for base for almost all others, but with less bloat. On top of that it's main disadvantage of being old is easily fixable by changing it to debian testing or debian sid, while preserving it's stability.
Im thinking to switching to debian when windows 10 no longer recives updates in a year or two. How is debian for everyday use with a bit of gaming thrown in?
@@Ruiseal gaming is ok if you want to play solitaire and minesweeper
@@MiningForPies Hey, you forgot about Gnome 2048!
@@Ruiseal Hi, I just migrated from win11 to Debian for a week. With the KDE environment it's literally Win7 on steroid, very comfortable to stay, and I can solve almost every problem by asking GPT and terminal console. About the gaming, people sais that Bottles/Wine can run most games in Windows, even steam, but I'm still trying to figure it out. It's no risk if you install it on a seperate hard drive, you will get a menu on boot to choose whether you want to boot into windows or debian. A $15 SSD can do the trick more than enough. The conclusion : I can boot back to win11 anytime, but I don't want to unless necessary, and the necessity is decreasing rapidly. When I figured out how to use Bottles/Wine, I might not returning back to windows anymore.
You did not mention Kubuntu. I used it for years, both at work and at home. It is rock solid, decently up to date and user-friendly. Never had a problem with it in years of heavy usage.
Completely agree!
He mentioned Ubuntu spins and KUbuntu is an Ubuntu spin.
@@U1TR4F0RCE I know, he also mentioned Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. I think Kubuntu deserved a few words as well.
Kubuntu is stuck following rules Canonical sets up about Ubuntu spins, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Pop!_OS which are technically based on Ubuntu don't and are more their own thing.
I love Xubuntu most
Thanx for the video. I've tried quite a few over the past 12 month on a VM and have settled on Linux Mint.
Nick, your opinions are always valuable - what I love the most is how upfront you are in that these opinions are what works for you specifically and how you limit it to only what you have actually used. IMO this is the ONLY correct way to make a tier list, so the greatest of kudos to you! If I could suggest something that is sorely lacking from your experience of 2023 (I mean "sorely" as sticking out like a sore thumb, not as a "deficient" or that this video is "inadequate") is "immutable" or "image based" OSs. If you could focus a bit of time this year to take a look at maybe Silverblue, EasyOS (a "pioneer" and too often forgotten distro), OpenSUSE Aeon (previously known as MicroOS), RLxOS, in addition to the ones you did try using and did include in the video, like VanillaOS and Nix (and reportedly SerpentOS as a base for Solus will be immutable, but I know how the whole project changes as the tide so who knows...), and other distros that absolutely do not fit your usage, but are cool projects nonetheless, like Guix and EndlessOS. Idk, it seems in recent years "immutable" was the main buzzword, which is why I noted it's absence from your video. I would also like to mention in passing those smaller and seemingly very nationality focused distributions, like BIG Linux and carbonOS. But I guess they are even more fringe than bangs. just so I disclose my interests, I don't currently use any immutable nor any fringe distros. A simple and very mainstream Tumbleweed install reigns in my Desktop and a good old Ubuntu LTS lives in my laptop (that I use like three times a month while travelling for work, so LTS is comfortable). So no conflict of interests to be declared.
Happy to see HoloISO on the list and actually well graded. I really like this OS I believe Valve should push it as a mainstream consumer Linux distro with the ability to default booting in Desktop mode for certain devices.
Wait that logo is holoiso ? Lmfao unmaintained os is also in his top list. Such a useless list. It should be chimeraos there.
The only downside of HoloISO is the write only system. Yes you can change that but it resets after every update. Would love to see it as a stand alone OS
@@fumangus69 what does it mean that the fact it's write only ?
For me, after getting a good grasp of NixOS, I can't just go back to any regular distro. The documentation and learning process is painfully bad and needs some work as soon as possible, but putting that aside, knowing exactly what software my computer has in every moment, not collecting "shit" overtime and the ability to bring *temporally* packages into "existence" on demand is just wonderful.
Ya, I notice with NixOS you can go back with OS Snapshots incase your system dies.... but looks like a very plain OS....
@@cybernit3 That can be done with practically any distro out there. The real features of NixOS are the way it handles packages. To cite a few: - NixOS allows you to write down a list of "things I want in my computer" and the system will take care of it for you; you always know what things are in your computer, and collecting "shitty" packages (dependencies, packages you installed for just a thing and forgot...) is just not a possibility anymore - By using certain commands, you can download and utilize a package or a number of packages temporally until you close the terminal, moment where this packages "stop existing"; you can even set special configurations for this "temporal command shell" like having certain environment variables set during this period and ONLY for this period - Packages are stored in a different way than traditional distros, solving one of the major issues of Linux distributions: dependency hell - Things like changing your whole desktop environment becomes as easy as changing one or a few lines of the "things I want in my computer" list, knowing for sure no trace of the old DE is left behind as you don't have to be remembering which packages had you installed with the old DE
Been daily driving Nobara for a few months now, and it's been a rock solid experience for my hardware. If there's any need of help, GE has his own Discord that's pretty active, so if you need help there's usually someone around to help you.
thanks a lot for this new great review!! I have more info to make my future choices 👍 Can you please tell me what is the software you're using at 0'14 please ?
It's Ubuntu for me, I understand the hate for Snaps but on my specific use case (I'm a 3D designer) the snaps for Blender and Inkscape work great and have done so for years, plus I still have deb for the odd obscure software I need to use for work that doesn't provide any other Linux package.
Surprised he put Ubuntu on average, but I think he did cause he uses Tuxedo OS (Ubuntu based) and has those Tuxedo laptops. With an SSD snap isn't that bad, I can understand if you used a HD. The main thing I like about Ubuntu is Canonical seems like a well organized corp and gives me a sense of stability. I am surprised Linux mint is on top, thought it was a good Linux newbie OS and for out dated cpu hardware.
@alexandertopic yeah, it used to be a distro, which would not work on recent hardware.. But this time, you can give a try for the edge iso which includes latest kernel, maybe that can help.
I do think there is a conflict of interest here with reviewing TuxedoOS for this list while also being sponsored by Tuxedo. Take that as you will.
Well, it’s the distro I actually use, by choice, so I kinda had to put it in there, and give my opinion on it
Great video! One critique: I feel you should have disclosed your Tuxedo sponsorship before talking about the distro, including whether or not they have any editorial control over the main contents of the video. I personally trust you and would be surprised if you said anything you didn't believe, but that context is always important to be transparent about and make people aware of so they can be adequately informed. If I didn't already have a good relationship as a viewer, I would be made pretty wary by one of the contestants of the the tier list being revealed as a sponsor AFTER the fact.
I agree. Ranking the distro you're sponsored by highly is a conflict of interest that needs disclosing.
Good point on Wayland. My Jaguar core AMD laptop (spare became main) needs to pick and choose carefully for full hardware support. Maybe come 6.9 LTS I'll browse the slterkatives again. XFCE or whatever performs better is what I need.
I would love to see LMDE in that ranking next year. Or maybe a detailed video with your opinion of it.
I would love to see LMDE as main LM, completely dropping Ubuntu to focus all efforts on LMDE. Until then I use Debian with Cinnamon. I would also like a video about LMDE.
I think I owe you an apology! After I complained about your ranking of Ubuntu, I temped the fates and my Ubuntu system went belly up this afternoon. LOL. I stand corrected!
I enjoyed the video, I've got my three distros I use. So nice to hear about other distros I haven't touched in a while if ever. I mainly use Fedora, Ubuntu and Gentoo and I thought the rankings of each were perfectly justified. Fedora I like for my laptop, cause it mostly works without too much fuss and you get regular updates. Ubuntu for my server everything works with minimal setup time. Gentoo while it's my favorite for my desktop to mess around on, I frequently blow days at a time when I'm installing/making major changes.
The one thing I liked about Zorin OS 17 was it installed and EVERYTHING hardware wise worked great on my old mid 2011 quard core imac. It brought and old system I thought I was going to throw away back to life and now my son uses it in his tattoo shop.
I use Fedora for my mainstream computers, and I would also place it in great, but... I love Chromebooks because they're CHEAP! It's not hard to pick one up for less than $100 US. I'm using Bodhi Linux as I have found it easy to install on every machine I've tried. Have you looked at ranking specifically lightweight systems?
For new Linux users, I recommend, 1-Linux Mint, 2-ZorinOS, 3-MX Linux, 4-Fedora Silverblue (immutable).
What about Ubuntu ?? I just install it yesterday (watched tons of videos ) and I am totally new to linux 😅 Should I install l mint , because I don't know why , the app store is not working , it just hangs when I click on some software😢.
@@Joker71219 Ubunto is no longer good for beginners as it used to be. .. Install Mint or Zorin OS. .. They are both very good, and you will not have to use the command line to upgrade to next versions, they have a tool for that. If you have any questions, let me know.
ubuntu is great tbh, a lot of flavours are made from ubuntu@@Joker71219
@@Joker71219 Ubuntu would be my fifth, but it works great. The Company behind the Distro, can do some crazy changes, like snaps. I hope you enjoy Linux, so many people are leaving Windows now.
I like Sparky Linux myself as it has something like 25 desktops you can choose from with just a couple clicks so I can have my laptop be as light or as fancy as I want while still having a nice stable underpinning.
I believe the strongest point in arch is not using it by itself, but basing another distro of of it. Imagine you have a company that has a lot of computers that don't really fit any mainstream os i.e. routers, cash registers etc. A distro that perfectly fits your uscase, that you don't have to develop from scratch seems wonderful.
the Steam Deck Agree's! LOL!
Poor Manjaro. I never had a problem with it. As it is Arch based it also follows the Keep it Simple/Stupid principle and you really notice that once you dig into the system to change or fine tune stuff. The only thing, that I don't like is that it ships with a proprietary office suite by default. But you can just download the minimal version to prevent that in the first place.
When you install Manjaro Gnome it gives you the option to install Libreoffice, Freeoffice, or none at all, they don't force it on you. Also Manjaro Gnome has been really stable for me across 5 different systems, and I'm about to install it on a 6th system soon as my new Lenovo laptop arrives in the mail, as I love their keep it simple way of thinking. My only issues have been some minor wake/sleep issues on an oddball Chinese Erying Micro ATX board that has an Intel 12900H CPU originally meant for laptops, but I got it at a good price, and it's a lower power beast with 14cores/20 Threads.
Seems like you don't understand the criticism that Manjaro have faced. It's just that the developers seem to be incompetent. Many users have gotten a broken system because Manjaro allows users to use the AUR alongside their older packages, making Manjaro more unstable than Arch itself due to poor design choices. I'm not saying that you can't use Manjaro without experiencing any problems, but it is easier to break, especially when you don't know what you're doing. The developers also once DDOSed the AUR through a bug in pamac that made it send too many requests to the AUR servers. This happened not once, but twice. They've had their website SSL certificates expire and then just told users to set back their system clock as a temporary fix. This happened at least five times and has happened on different subdomains. They've shipped pre-release versions of open source software like Asahi Linux and OpenRGB many times, which caused those app developers to get issues from end users on Manjaro for work-in-progress software, which weren't supposed to be shipped in the first place. There has been send an open letter by the community saying that work-in-progress software should not be shipped to end users, obviously. I'd say that you're probably better off with Endeavor OS as a direct alternative to Manjaro. If you find Arch too hard, you can also try the arch-install script to install a working Arch desktop with a step-by-step guide. If you just want a stable rolling release that's easy to use, just go for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed like Nick already said in the video.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 I use Arch (btw) as my daily driver with KDE Plasma. :) But I often recommend Manjaro to other people when they want to get in touch with Linux just because I was using Manjaro as well back then. I also noticed that the developers make strange moves, but the OS in general is still great and in my opinion one of the best out there to start with. Oh and the AUR is by defaut disabled. Unexperienced users will first have to enable it to have a chance to destroy their system. But even with AUR packages, I never had an issue. Maybe I was lucky here.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 I mostly use Manjaro as a way to install Arch with a properly configured desktop environment and LUKS drives. Basically the first thing I do is switching to testing branch and drop pamac. Done. I truly never faced the incompatibility issue between AUR/Manjaro repos, and I've been using it daily for literal years and installed a bunch of obscure things. Thanks for Endeavor OS, I never heard of it before and I'll have a look :)
Manjaro has no advantage over Arch - it's more unstable, and if you have the technical skill to deal with that then you have the technical skill to use Arch.
After years of using arch, I had update issue only once. And it was not a big deal: npm got updated but another important package I use could not handle it yet. But I have pretty minimal setup. No grub, desktop environments, qt apps... so I might be just lucky. Manjaro on the other hand caused me quite some headaches in less than year.
great video! thanks for explaining the rationale for the rating. do you have a video for best distro for old hardware? is there a reason you didnt include antix linux? pls help thx!
I have been using Fedora on my 2011 MacBook Pro after seeing your video about Plasma KDE and love it. It's breathed new life into that old Mac and amazingly everything just worked- even the fickle Wifi adapter Apple used (b/c of course they used something difficultly unique).
After starting my Linux experiment (heh) with Fedora like half a year ago, as i had to reinstall it because Windows update form some reason breaks it for me sometimes (I use Linux for personal and Windows for work), i tried Nobara as gaming is my main use-case, and have to say the gaming experience definetly seamless, i just cant come to love KDE as much as i loved Gnome. Really want to give KDE more time, but i really miss Gnome, it fit my use style so much better.
Started with cinnamon and now KDE, and cannot stand gnome anymore. KDE is the way.
@@Masta_E Yea, that is why its nice to have choices. I can luckly "stand" KDE, but i just loved the way Gnome worked for me much more.
@@StarfoxHUN the good news is you can still use gnome. 🙂
You should rank wayland compositors :) hyprland would surely be great+++
truly
Should wait until Plasma 6 releases for that since it has actual color management and HDR. Those two things along means it automatically blows anything else out of the water.
As a long-term Manjaro user (KDE) I'd say that we've had long periods with no real issues with updates, although recently there have been a few requiring my intervention to fix. For this reason I wouldn't recommend it to newbies; we have Mint for that. I actually like a bit of a challenge now and then, keeps the grey matter going.
Nobara has a discord server and has a channel specifically for technical help. The response times are fairly quick, and the people who do respond to you tend to stick with you till the end of your problem. Nobara definitely deserves a spot in the top tier place.
I love Feren OS. Only thing is it has a small dev team, and the next major version has been delayed since July. I hope they come back and get it updated.
Maybe Dominic fell in love
I like Linux Mint for sure but I still can't believe that you haven't reviewed Mx Linux in this list...
when I switched to Linux, I tried several distros, but finally settled on Linux Mint. Never had a problem, and can do anything that I could do with Windows.
Nobara is great *if* you are regularly checking the website and in the discord server. That's where you go for support. You also wanna be reasonably technical and not afraid to ask questions (after checking for obvious answers). It's small, yes, and mostly run by one guy, but GE does a *phenomenal* job of making things run well, and will personally help with problems that can't be instantly solved by the expert users who hang out in the discord. I don't recommend it for everyone, but for the people I do recommend it for, I can't recommend it enough.
I'm using Manjaro since 2 years now and I am overally pretty happy. The compatibility issues between the official packages and AUR can be an issue, but I managed to manage it pretty well. Some things might not ever going to work on Manjaro but most things run without any issue. Also it runs very recent kernels, which is great.
Almost 4 years here. I find that the best/easiest way to manage Manjaro is to switch to the Unstable branch as soon as possible, no matter how much you leverage AUR (if at all). You'll be just hours behind Arch Stable, which means getting packages at a steady stream, instead of in piles of hundreds of different packages at a time. Which is always fun to debug when problems arise /s Yes, I know: "Just run Arch instead!". I'm just too lazy to fix what ain't broken. All in all, I'm still unsure if I'd want to recommend Manjaro to anyone. Today, if you're fine being a little bit hands-on, use Arch. If I knew 4 years ago what I know today, that's what I'd do. If you want a rolling release, but want things to "just work", look for something like Tumbleweed.
After distro hopping for a year, Manjaro with Gnome made me fall in love with Linux. Been running this set up on an all AMD desktop for over 2 years and it's been rock solid for everything. My only complaint is that Adobe needs to start supporting Linux like good little humans. Linux is feaking awesome, Adobe can eat sh*t!!
I've kinda resisted Mint since 2014, which is when I found about it, I don't really know why, but I've decided to give it a try this year, and it really is a blast! I love Mint now!
I did a recent review of existing distros for my use case: I want a light distro, small footprint with a good desktop and large package base and long term support & stability. In the past, I was using Xubuntu or Ubuntu Mate (before the snap debacle) but I found that the best distros for this use case are MX Linux (XFCE or KDE, both are slick) for the smallest "usable" distro and Mint Debian edition (Cinnamon) or Mint XFCE (but slightly larger). I was really impressed by how well those distros work out of the box and how good the user experience is (many utilities to manage teh system, robust fundation). Mint is well known, but MX Linux deserves more publicity !!
What about MX Linux?
Indeed. I also missed void linux. Mx linux any many more 😅
Also, @TheLinuxEXP hasn't mentioned this distro at all despite seems to be one of those being used and installed more often (maybe so much large as the System76's Pop!_OS). Strangely, despite on DistroWatch's being one of first top ranking distros, NO mention at all about EndeavorOS which I feels to be maybe best LinuxArch based distro currently, there's also no mention for Garuda (Linux Arch based as well) oriented to the gaming. Weird thing is majority of Linux PCs and laptops manufacturers are still lacking options for have especially MX Linux or EndeavorOS pre-installed (or requires additional cost). Some are even offering mostly Ubuntu-based only distros like Tuxedo and System76. (Actually StarLabs seems to be still THE ONLY manufacturer offering their devices with an option to have MX Linux pre-installed)...
I had been using Ubuntu on one laptop, and Mint on another. Move from Ubuntu to Mint to avoid having to deal with removal of snaps. Currently have Mint DE5 on one and Mint DE6 on the second. Both rock solid daily drivers. I do still have a ultra small form factor Dell desktop running Win 10 just in case I need it to run software that isn't available on Linux.. but I rarely used it anymore.
The SNAPS. Unbelievable waste of time and space. Same here. Moved to Mint. Much happier now!
I have Manjaro installed on a 10+ year old MacBook Air and it just works. Getting WiFi and printers working didn't require any pulling of hair or gnashing of teeth. It doesn't get heavy use (web stuff, light photo editing while I'm away from home, Arduino programming), but it does what I need and gets out of my way. The only issue I've had is that the machine won't sleep/hibernate while on battery power. Given the age of the thing there's a non-zero chance that the problem is down to a hardware fault.
Which of this would you recommend for an out of the box working with latest hardware. Specifically Ryzen 7000 series. Yes I am aware I could update the kernel of Mint and other great distors. (mint been usually the one I always go back to) But Id like one I don't have too. To test for a bit.
Solus was great. I ran it for four years on one install. It was the best rolling release for nontechnical users. I hope that the serpent os rebase will happen.
Do you have an opinion on MX Linux? I'm using MX Linux KDE with some tweaks (Liquorix kernel, change to systemd as default, etc.) and I'm very satisfied with it.
Not sure why you'd change to systemd, seems like one of MX Linux strong points that it doesn't use it. But I'd love to know what more people think of MX Linux as well, seems like such a great distro as a newbie. It has a lot of quality of life tools and utlities.
@@RedSaint83 Yeah, I changed to systemd because of personal preference. But I do appreciate that MX Linux has sysVinit as default, which also works fine, and that you can change it easily. Out of all distros I tried, MX Linux has for me the best out-of-box experience, especially in terms of hardware compatibility. And it also offers good and comfortable options for tweaking.
I seem to be sticking to debian with kde, although i perfectly understand your reasoning for placing it in the average category. For me it's great though :)
Fairly new to linux, so I'm not sure if this is a common thing... but I did like how Zorin OS comes pre-installed with Windows .exe compatibility (via wine) Not that wine is that hard to download and install, but its nice to have that included when you are installing to devices that aren't necessarily going to be connected to the internet, especially if there are some finicky drivers on said device.
Seeing as you ranked both Tumbleweed and Leap, have you considered Slowroll? AIUI it's basically Tumbleweed that (mostly?) automatically figures out which packages in Tumbleweed are stable or unstable and filters them accordingly. I'm assuming that the reason you put Tumbleweed in Good instead of Great was because it was rolling and therefore not stable enough, since you didn't explicitly state any downsides.
I daily drive Nobara and it's really cool, I didn't have any issues upgrading to Nobara 39 and everything works fine (except my highly customized hyprland config). And when you come from ZorinOS it's a real pleasure t have up to date software !
It looks so cool! I'm thinking about switching to this for my main desktop pc which is primarily for gaming once I can fully upgrade my pc.
did you try to install arch following the wiki or did you only use arch install? (not saying that archinstall is bad but I know it has some security holes as well as some questionable ways of doing some things) I've been daily driving arch linux for nearly 3 years and I've never had any issues that I couldn't solve by looking at forum posts or the wiki
I run a small Arch Based distro called EndeavourOS on my old MSI laptop (Intel+nvidia) and i gotta say i've never had an issue with it (at least not one that i had created myself) But yeah I do understand why you wouldn't want to put Arch or Arch distros higher up, Arch is Great, as a learning experience and quite stable and powerfull if you know what you're doing (quite flexible and bleeding edge too) but it does require time properlly setting up and checking what thing should you update or not in order to avoid catasthropic failure, lol. I see tumbleweed here as a good mixture between rolling and stable, however, tumbleweed is kind of weird (at least to me) you'd need a specific repo even to install another repo, good all around distro but kind of weird.
Currently on Debian and I would recommend you give Testing a shot for the list next year!
Im thinking to switching to debian when windows 10 no longer recives updates in a year or two. How is debian for everyday use with a bit of gaming thrown in?
@@Ruiseal Debian is stable like really stable and If you are not a hard gamer it okey.
@@Ruiseal It would be doable if you are ok with tinkering with the OS. I switched from windows to Linux Mint and have been gaming with no issues so far. I've been playing Lethal Company, Baldurs Gate 3, some Minecraft, and Apex Legends (only games I've played on linux atm, no issues though and was really easy to set up).
Curious how MX Linux fits on your scale here. I've settled on it nicely.
MX does not fit the bill. It's windows 95 on fentanyl. Insane distro esp. xfce version.
@@ivobrick7401 lol ever heard of compiz? nub
I've always had issues with arch in the past, but EndeavourOS has been stable for me, even with bleeding edge nvidia drivers and cards. It does fine on kernel updates, which is huge when you're in my use case. It's also the only distro that doesn't give me weird graphics anomalies with the sudden wayland push as it uses x11. Must use their update utility rather than pacman or yay.
Wow. Nice work, Sir. I didn't know about portals (mentioned in a recent vid), but I did notice sth changed in my desktop recent years. I love gentoo. It's the only one that survived me without breaking the system until ~2015 and since then I settled with that. NixOS is interesting concept. I like those unique creative OSes, like Plan9. You have potential. I 'd love to see some new technologies examined deeply.
Hold on a minute, you used the Arch Grub incident as an example of why Manjaro isn't good. Manjaro literally did not have the Grub issue because they hold back packages instead of immediately shipping every Arch package update. I remember being extremely relieved to not experience that Grub issue since I was on Manjaro instead of straight Arch.
I'm using MX 23 with Kde which comes with a wayland session option on login. It's solid. As for latest software, you always have the flatpack option as this distro is based on Deb stable. Flats are a baked in option in the discovery package manager.
I like MX as it's the only distro I know w/ a vertical panel that works and that does not need a horizontal bar/panel. On wide displays, especially 16:9, this saves a lot of space.
I'm just a beginner, I used Ubuntu , Zorin , Vanilla , Mint, Debian , PoP , SUSE enterprise (Old one) etc. So, Fedora seems great to me, Using it for daily driver
Waiting for the "new" pop os on my hybrid graphics laptop! Running Zorin now because it looks smooth and finished!
I value stability, reliability, and driver availability above all so DEBIAN does it for me. It's been my daily OS for the last 2 years and never have a complain based on the criteria mentioned before.
Extremely underrated even despite its popularity. Everyone puts it down as "good for servers but not desktop", but it's honestly the best by far for people that don't want their real computer affected by all the drama and instability in the Linux world. Not everyone wants the very latest of everything.
Where is MX Linux ?
I've had no issues with the AUR and Manjaro so far, and it's the only distro with a rolling release I've tried that doesn't have issues with my fingerprint scanner.
One thing I really like about your channel, is that while you're certainly skilled in what you do, you're not a "linux expert", which makes your content much more accessible for normal people. Edit: I do disagree with your take on ubuntu though, it's a fantastic distro for everyday use.
I've been using Mint as my daily for over ten years and it just keeps getting better. Kubububtu is my backup. I have four ssds in my PC and check out most new distros when they are reviewed. I have used Linux since Slackware 1.0 and Debian sincne 1995. I wiped Windows when the Solaar app managed my logitech mouse and keyboard.. Linux Rules!
Linux Mint, like Pop OS, is also based on Ubuntu 22.04... but such a big difference in rating?
If you use LMDE it doesn’t have the Ubuntu issues. It is YAGNI purified and crystallized.
@TheLinuxEXP I love the way you explain things, Because of you I was able to start with linux, but I would like to know from you if you heard about distrobox? What do you think of it ? I would like to hear from you because the way of the other youtubers explain it is too hard sometimes for me to understand.