What is your favorite Linux distro and why?

Windows

Linux Mint, it just work.

Mint: because green-ish & silver
Fedora: because blue

Fancy answer, huh? :D

@jakej5 Thought about this answer too. 😂👍

Ubuntu, just works.

Elementary OS, because it looks almost exactly like OSX
It's very easy to setup it's based on Ubuntu so it has a lot of support built in.
Most people when I sit them in front of a elementaryOS system don't freak out they just use it thinking its Apple.

And obviously I have a love affection with Arch Linux since I've been setting it up custom for a long time.

Gentoo nowadays.

I switched to Gentoo to avoid systemd and I have been very pleased with how well everything works.

And of course, after a little (automatic) compiling it is tuned exactly to my machine.

It's not for nothing that ChromeOS is based on Gentoo!

@grolofson ++ for Arch, but I missed .debs there :/ Seems like a lot of people use debian(or similar) nowadays, so non-debian-like system is mostly a no-go for me.

@KeyWeeUsr
dpkg -i packageName.deb

Debian, but I wish I would have the time to set up Arch.

@grolofson https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/...

@KeyWeeUsr
Looks like it was updated today, I'm sure it's nothing to use all the time but for a one time deal I wouldn't think you have an issue.

Normally I try to build from source when ever possible.

CentOS, because it worked on boot up the first time, and it's a great learning platform when you work for a company that uses RHEL.

@grolofson I try to avoid it if possible. Some packages may require a lot of other different packages, which require another... and suddenly you have all OS dirty, therefore I rely on package managers.

Ubuntu because apt-get and critical mass (easy to Google someone having the same problem as you). Unity looks like a toddler toy though, needs a lot of tweaking. Or switching window manager: I use xmonad at work, I love it.

Not quite my favourite, but the one I spend most of time on: Debian

FEDORA
1. Love at first sight
2. any hardware doesnt matter
3. every cutting and bleeding edge tech comes to fedora first, because it is a community version from red hat
4. rpm and dnf
5. never saw a shitty decision taken by the community like introducing unity
6. it is not as unstable as people think

lubuntu

Big userbase since it is almost ubuntu, so easy to find a solution if it doesn't. but it almost always just works.

and it's lightweight, more ram för chrome

Debian because it was easy to setup without a WM.

Alpine, since it lives in docker and you never see it.

Best distro for servers: debian
Best desktop/laptop: Bunsenlabs

worst: ubuntu with unity

@Linux never heard about Bunsenlabs, but please tell me what are those window managers: https://bunsenlabs.org/img/... https://irenegr.files.wordpress.com/... still openbox?

@KeyWeeUsr
openbox yes,
but my favorite is gotta be Windowmaker

Arch Linux , the combo of a great Wiki and customization support is just AWESOME !!

mint with cinnamon, i like xfce too and suse, but suse eats the battery of my laptop in 2 hours 😢

not really Linux but has Linux...Qubes OS! Best security for everyday computing