Yes, I know that the ranking is not a good metric of real world use.

Just posting this because MX Linux has been in the number one spot for a long time (2 years perhaps?) and it’s surprising to see some other distro on the top of their site.

https://distrowatch.com/

  • @somenonewho@feddit.org
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    55 months ago

    I’ve never understood the Mint hype. Like you say it seems like Ubuntu with extra steps.

    I do have beefs with some of the decisions Canonical makes but if anyone asks me what distri they should start with I will always recommend Ubuntu simply because it’s “the distro” if you search for “Linux” tutorials online 9 times out of 10 you will get a tutorial aimed at Ubuntu. Packages for software that isn’t in repos are usually available as .deb …

    • @drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      35 months ago

      Someone doesn’t like windows because they put ads in their start menu: aww you’re sweet

      Someone doesn’t like Ubuntu because they put ads in their start menu: hello, human resources?

    • Possibly linux
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      15 months ago

      Ubuntu is buggy and broken due to the system design

      It was good 15 years ago…