The Best Linux Distributions Of 2023

This video lists the best Linux distributions in different categories such as best distro for new users, most customisable distro, most stable distro, best lightweight and ultra lightweight distros and of course best overall distro

[MrAlhaines]

Linux Mint is the best. 30 years of distro hopping ended when I found Mint!

[derekr]

Good video Gary, I use MX Linux, Linux Mint Cinnamon, OpenSuse and Fedora on my tower, one laptop runs Linux Mint Debian Edition and Lilidog and my other laptop runs Solus and Endeavour. I find Mint and Debian are rock solid and as both Lilidog, LMDE and MX are Debian based they all serve me well. The Ubuntu based version of Mint is also rock solid and I have very little trouble with Fedora, OpenSuse and Endeavour. Solus is also behaving very well since they got themselves sorted out from their problems and I hope they continue to improve.

[babasingapura]

Thank you. I’m running Debian but will take another look at MX

[ernestoditerribile]

I think LFS(Linux from Scratch) is the best distribution for beginners. I started on Gentoo in 2003. Knowing nothing but DOS, OS/2, AIX(BSD) Commodore(Amiga) and MSX systems. It took me 66 hours to totally got it running with KDE and spinning cube between the various desktops. It took another 20 hours to port Battlefield 1942 with wine.

By installing everything manually. You will learn Linux the fastest.

[drakemallard]

The really great thing is that there are now many distributions that make it very easy for new users to switch to Linux. They are all very easy to install and use, have many applications out of the box (Flatpak integrated) and are super stable. It almost doesn't matter whether you use Zorin, Mint, LMDE, POP, Tuxedo, Fedora, Nobara, Manjaro, MX, Ubuntu (although no Flatpak integrated) and its flavors. Even Garuda as an arch distro is easy to install / use and has btrfs snapshots in the grub menu! Imho Zorin is on the first place because it looks and feels more modern than Mint. It is all about the first impression and adoption. It is only the first Distro to switch to Linux successfully and the beginning of the journey 🙂

[tkenben]

Yes, I found MX Linux hard to beat for all the reasons you mentioned but also because it is feature rich (without being bloated). It offers some pretty sophisticated tools like building your own iso from your current system configuration for example, or doing snapshots. It is simple without being child proofed. I would say a great cutting edge distro would be Tumbleweed; arguably better than Arch for the layperson. That one offers snapshots out of the box (by default I think?).

[jimw]

I AGREE with EVERY single thing you sensible

[bertnijhof]

Ubuntu right or wrong, my distro.
I run Ubuntu 23.10 and I also appreciate my VBox VMs of Xubuntu 22.04 LTS; Ubuntu 16.04 ESM; Ubuntu Unity 23.10; Linux Mint; Zorin; Fedora; Manjaro; Debian; Peppermint; OpenSUSE Leap and Windows XP. Reliability is most important for me, that is why I use Ubuntu since 2008 and ZFS (ZOL or OpenZFS) since 2018.

[azazaz]

My nr 1 is Kubuntu, 2'th place Fedora KDE. Biggest issue with Ubuntu is the lack of manual partitioning with encryption. Fedora lacks Xorg and Wayland can't open Xorg apps. Fedora Wayland has some glitches with Nvidia RTX4060.

[xritics]

I use Ubuntu because i love Gnome and i've not only one problem with snaps. I like the power i have to have all packages i want to use (because Flatpak works too on Ubuntu with few tinker). I have Ubuntu 23.10 on my desktop and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on my professional laptop. That's the best for me in 2023 and now 2024. Thank you for the video !! Have a great year !

[Arek]

Nobara 39 gnome, tweaked fedora that's my distro