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LMDE, MX, Ubuntu etc are based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu, so Debian. Chimera/Endeavour are based on Arch, etc.
In the linux world, you have a linux kernel, systemd or init, a bunch of gnu utils, a window system like X or Wayland, whatever DE you want (Xfce, gnome, kde, name it) and a packaging system (apt, yum, pacman), but for me, it's all the same.
If you want something different, try a BSD distro then? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GhostBSD, etc
CrunchBang++, BunsenLabs, Bodhi, Antix and Peppermint.
Artix.
EndeavourOS
How do people feel about Garuda? I put it on a laptop to try it out. I'm still undecided.
Favorite? No. Most acceptable: NixOS.
The worst documentation of a linux distro I have ever encountered, but the declarative model has convinced me I don't want something else. Now I'm just waiting for other distros to pop up that are declarative as well. (Guix? No thanks, I'm not a fan of endless parentheses)
Annie Linux, but sadly it doesn't exist yet.
Void - https://voidlinux.org/
Was scrolling through to see if anyone had mentioned void. I use Fedora these days but Void is great because of how easy it is to contribute to with its GitHub-based package management workflow - anyone can update a package or introduce a new one, it just needs to be approved. It doesn't get any easier than that
I'm really happy with Manjaro. I thought it would be a detour from Debian on my laptop, but I've been running it for like 2 years now.
Been using Xubuntu 23.10 recently, but I'm kind of a distro hopper. I need ROCm and some other special (proprietary, ehh) tools that require RHEL, SLE, or some Ubuntu flavor. I also like having a working out-of-the-box configuration. I've used openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux before, might try it again but it's a little bit complicated to me.
I've been enjoying Mint personally for my laptop. I've tried Ubuntu but I've had issues with the speakers :/
Bodhi Linux. Lightweight and beautiful
Ubuntu is so easy to use!!
Puppy Linux.
Puppy with what underlying distro though?
Puppy has their own but can be based on a lot of the main distros. I've used it to recover data from many a computer.
Toaster Linux or Nobara.
I like Poky. But for other use case than Arch, Debian and Fedora.
Guix is imho beyond normal distros, and I'm never going back to Manjaro or any of the normal distros.
Ublue although it's kinda still fedora, otherwise alpine even though I don't really use it.
Manjaro KDE for me - it's not Arch per se, otherwise Ubuntu would also be eliminated for being a derivative of Debian...
Rocky
Kali Linux! Just too useful, though there can still be some fixing around.
Fixing?