OpenSUSE, awfull default software selection on desktop, and pushing users hard to use an "everything configuration tool".
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I agree with you.
I don't hate Manjaro's developers, but they simply do not know what they are doing. They over promise and under deliver.
Manjaro always broke on me. I can't even trust them to keep their SSL certs up to date.
Sorry Manjaro devs, no hate, I just got burned way too many times by this arch-not-arch frankendistro.
Been on it for the last two years. Never broke. Idk what's going on
Fedora. It doesn't really add anything and is just more stuff for people to get distracted by.
Also, red hat is responsible for shilling a lot of bullshit.
I tried Fedora aswell and couldn't get behind the package management or GNOME. I'm sure it's trivial to change the DE to something more sane (my tastes lie with Xfce and/or KDE) but I used it for a month and I just went straight back to Manjaro until I could find something better, and ultimately settled on EndeavourOS.
Debian.
Everything is so manual, not even system upgrades or enabling automatic updates. Like, this can be easily scripted using sed, why dont they do that?
It gets outdated very quickly and people complain that their apps are outdated, while Debian is simply shipping an extremely outdated package.
I respect what they do, and maybe for a Server it is a good OS (even though I would trust Fedora with SELinux and quick updates more).
Evil Linux Suprise™
idk why people even use it. too scary for me.
Manjaro, because we're here on arch to use the AUR, and that breaks Manjaro basically every time.
Probably PoP_OS!. There isn't anything wrong with the os itelf, my problem is rather that its often sugested as a beginer friendly distro which in my experience it absolutely isn't. The amount of issues I encountered while trying to use it almost drove me away from Linux as a whole. (It was the first distro i tried) The time I spent trying to make everything work was comparable to Arch.
I realy like the idea and the DE they ship by default is one of the best ones I've seen (it's like GNOME but in my opinion much better) but the bugs make it a terrible suggestion for new users.
I don't really have a least favorite distribution. I mean, I guess between Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Manjaro, and Gentoo, the least appealing choices to me are Manjaro and Gentoo. Manjaro is just Arch but worse, because the packages are old and likely to cause incompatibilities with AUR packages that need really up-to-date system packages, and I...don't trust the maintainers to have configured everything better than I could have myself. Just based on history.
Debian has ancient packages. That's the only reason. I'd just end up using Flatpak packages or compiling from source.
Any other distribution I could use, including Gentoo, but Arch is the sweet spot for me.
VanillaOS looked really promising but it was terribly buggy when I used it.
I think most of their efforts are focused on the upcoming Orchid system, hopefully they smooth out a lot of those things from the original.