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Okay why is your distro the best?

I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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  • Debian just works.

    • Interestingly Debian was the distro that gave me the most greif out of the box.

      • I think linux distros are a coinflip on if they like your hardware or not, sometimes it feels like they just don't like you individually as a person.

        When I use fedora for example, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. It's in theory not any more complicated than debian, but I've never had good luck keeping a fedora system healthy.

        With Debian, usually the best troubleshooting tip I can give people is try installing testing instead of stable. Sometimes the kernel in stable is just too damn old for the hardware you want to install on.

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