What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

case_when@feddit.uk to Linux@lemmy.ml – 239 points –

I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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Anything that isn't Arch.

  • Ubuntu's package managers won't stop fighting with each other so I can't complete an upgrade easily. Also, I hate apt. Trusting prebuilt binaries from PPAs seems a little dangerous to me compared to trusting build scripts in the AUR, so I don't feel comfortable with that. I do like it otherwise, though.
  • Linux Mint is fine, I guess, but no Wayland yet and I don't like Cinnamon. Same PPA issues. Has some more outdated packages than Ubuntu.
  • openSUSE is great, but the package managers won't stop fighting with each other and it's lacking a few packages. I like the Open Build System a lot less than the AUR.
  • Fedora is fine, while missing some packages, but it broke on me after a week and I had no idea how to fix it so I stopped using it.
  • Pop_OS makes everything about GNOME worse.
  • Debian's packages are too old.
  • Manjaro is more work than Arch and the packages are out of sync with the AUR.
  • The packages I want aren't in Solus. Is this distro even still around?

And for distros I won't consider trying:

  • Gentoo is too much work.
  • Qubes is too much work and I can't play games on it.
  • I don't like any of the ZorinOS modifications and the packages are old.

Just wanna add ZorinOS packages get updated regularly - at least faster than Ubuntu and Mint. Very good analysis btw

The main package I was thinking of was the kernel. I saw the recent Linux Experiment video by Nick and they were using a kernel version (6.1?) that was no longer supported nor an LTS.

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