Comments on: Best Linux Distributions

By: lou

lou — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:33:47 +0000

In reply to Phillip. Hi Phillip, Just out of curiosity what hardware are you using, I have Garuda running on my "Mongrel" laptop which I build myself using a Toshiba motherboard AMD chip in an Acer case it old now but runs well. And I live time stamp because if an update is buggy and causes issues you've got the option of stepping down to the last workable update. Cheese Lou

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:39:04 +0000

In reply to lou.

Hey Iou – that’s great. I must admit that Garuda didn’t work that well for me out of the box. Had to do a lot of configuration for other devices. Does anyone else have that experience? I wonder what I could be doing wrong.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:36:31 +0000

Also Alpine in azure? Is that possible?

By: lou

lou — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 05:41:41 +0000

I had my HDD corrupted because I broke my cardinal rule of leaving my machine switched on and online and was happy with Win 7 as my daily driver after trying to backtrack because Win 10 made its presence is known (auto-update).

I was using a 10 yr old Laptop Acer and found after Win 10 installed itself while I was sleeping, I had 70% corrupt boot sectors my Drive was Fried so to speak but I borrowed a Desktop and burnt a live ISO of Ubuntu found.

I could use the live iso to still access the net but not install it needless to say I bought a new laptop and Played around with Arch fell in love with it and Now I run Garuda an Arch derivative as my daily driver.

I honestly couldn’t be happier. But the best thing with Garuda is everything works straight out of the box no need to configure Bluetooth for peripherals it just runs so efficiently I have never been happier.

By: Black Picard

Black Picard — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:56:03 +0000

Dude, you forgot about MX Linux which has overtaken the BIG boys on DistroWatch to become the #1 Linux distro over there which is a BIG deal. And last month, they came out with a super-reliable KDE spin which is going to set the world on fire due once again to its vaunted RELIABILITY (SystemD free, Debian Stable, FlatPak, MX Tools & amazing updater that never screws up!)

Don’t take my word though. Dedoimedo, the web’s most fussy Linux reviewer, named it Best Linux distro of 2018:

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“First place: MX Linux MX-17 Horizon
From the very start, MX Linux behaved beautifully. It was elegant, robust, and stable. It comes with many unique features and applications, including its MX Tools combo. It’s one of the few distros that actually save the contents of the live session after the installation, so you don’t need to go about redoing everything. You get blazing performance, excellent battery life, all the fun out of the box, and it’s constantly, continuously improving, with great momentum by the team and the community. The top choice of 2018…

Year after year, MX Linux is getting better and better, climbing in me charts – and if you trust community reviews, then my experience reflects the wider impressions across the Tux sphere.

MX Linux normally uses around 400 to 450MB of RAM at startup – even for the KDE spin which is unheard of. Give it a try! You won’t regret it!