(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit the mark for us because it can be very helpful.

So, I’d like to ask: What is your least favorite Linux distribution and why? Please remember, this is not about bashing or belittling any specific distribution. The aim is to have a constructive discussion where we can learn about each other’s experiences.

My personal least favorite is probably Manjaro.

Consider:

  • What specific features/lack thereof made it less appealing?
  • Did you face any specific challenges?
  • How was your experience with the community?
  • If given a chance, what improvements would you suggest?
Bandicoot_Academic,

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.

Presi300, (edited )
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Pull out your pitchforks, debian.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s good in a VM or a server, but it’s the worst Linux desktop experience I’ve ever had.

  • Apt sucks, it’s the worst package manager imo (and I use Gentoo). Slow, bad a dependency resolution and apt-autoremove nuked my system both times I tried to use debian.
  • It’s old. LTS is only good for servers, you cannot change my mind and I don’t see a reason to use sid or unstable, when I can use literally why other distro with a better prepare manager.

And it just does some bizarre things, like not setting up sudo with the graphical installer…

neo,
@neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

Manjaro, because we’re here on arch to use the AUR, and that breaks Manjaro basically every time.

isVeryLoud,

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.

tcrash,

Been on it for the last two years. Never broke. Idk what’s going on

yum13241,

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.

Drito,

My worst experience was on Linux Void.

The iso has an encryption key problem. I tried the distro one year after, the same problem 😆 . Its the only distro that has that kind of problem. Once the problem is solved thanks to the forum, the shell didn’t switch the language properly, the “-” prints a wierd character, most keys on the that row was wrong. Maybe all the praise for that distro comes from non-french speaking people, so they didn’t saw the problem.

I know, the DE versions of the iso should works nice, but Void is advertised as minimalist, I want my WM. If this is that hard to switch the installation to french language, why Alpine is able to provide a correct installation experience (not easy, but correct) ?

Joe_0237, (edited )

Ubuntu: For shilling all kinds of profrietary garbage by default. If I wanted that I’d be on Windows.

Also the changes they make to GNOME make it worse, they take away what makes it good, the flow.

genie,

Exactly what I came here to say.

Prompt me for Ubuntu Pro once (in the GUI on first login)? Shame on you, but I’ll move past it.

Put an ad in the terminal every time I update my system though? Straight to jail.

Joe_0237, (edited )

OpenSUSE, awfull default software selection on desktop, and pushing users hard to use an “everything configuration tool”.

tslnox,

I tried Tumbleweed on my old main PC. When I finally got around to upgrade it, I immediately wiped it and got back to my beloved Gentoo (for which the old PC was getting a bit too slow)

Now I have Leaf on the family PC, because they pretty much only need Firefox and occasional LibreOffice and I’m lazy to try to find a different distro.

Poik,
@Poik@pawb.social avatar

Hannah Montana Linux. Do I have to explain?

Chadus_Maximus,

Yes.

mvirts,

You can’t have the best of both worlds

01189998819991197253,
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

I hate that I understood this joke. Take my angry upvote.

01189998819991197253,
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

Is it because it came in like a wrecking ball?

dingus,

Sorry, I think you meant to post this in the “best distro” thread

pathief,
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

After spending a ton of time migrating CentOS machines I have to say anything red hat related.

luca,

Also Fedora too: really polished Desktop experience, great choice of DE’s, many Spins for every taste, the installer is somewhat insufferable, overall a great distro, but I just can’t get myself over Red Hat (and the logo makes me feel like I’m working on Facebook OS).

smackjack,

I don’t think I’ve ever used Ubuntu for more than a month. I just don’t like the way it looks, how locked down everything is, and how hard it is to customize.

maness300,

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.

JustARegularNerd,

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.

jerrythegenius,
@jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

You could try the KDE or XFCE spins

lseif,

Evil Linux Suprise™

idk why people even use it. too scary for me.

KarnaSubarna,
@KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml avatar

RHEL - for obvious reasons

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m going to mention two:

Manjaro. I’ve attempted to use Manjaro a few different times, and outside of a VM it just didn’t work properly; on my laptop it would boot loop for reasons I don’t understand, it had poor hardware support and optimization on a Raspberry Pi, and it didn’t last long on my desktop. It’s had its chances, I’m done trying.

I really did not hitch horses with Pop!_OS, and it’s almost entirely because Pop!_OS started at Gnome and kept fucking going. Just thinking about the two miserable weeks I spent trying to get Gnome to do anything is making me physically angry. Words like disobedient and belligerent come to mind when I think of what it’s like to use Pop!_OS. Linux Mint is designed to feel familiar to anyone coming from Windows. Pop!_OS feels like it’s designed to be the opposite of that, it deliberately doesn’t work the way you think it does. YOU have to conform to IT. And I FUCKING hate it. It is never welcome on my hardware ever again.

lseif,

yep. i dont see a reason to use Manjaro when EndevourOs is basically the same, but better (and a nicer color theme!)

maness300,

Why does endeavor OS describe itself as a terminal-centric OS?

That alone turns me off from using it. I try to avoid the terminal at all costs.

lseif,

im pretty sure you can get by pretty well without the terminal, for the most part. although, it is arch based, and its kind of the point. no distro is for everyone.

its besides the point, but why dont u like the terminal?

maness300,

its besides the point, but why dont u like the terminal?

Because it’s way harder to remember and use text commands than it is to navigate a GUI.

I also don’t like taking my hand off the mouse if I can avoid it.

lseif,

fair enough.

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