 One of the questions I get asked a lot is what is my favorite distro? And it's actually a fairly difficult question to answer because I try a ton of distros out mainly for the channel and Settling on one over the last five years has been kind of difficult because I'm very much Grass is always greener on the other side kind of guy I really do always kind of think that I'm missing out on something if I haven't tried it out or haven't tried it out recently so I tend to Distro hop a lot and while that has toned down over the last year and a half It's still sometimes the case. I will eventually Always get that itch to move on to something else Even if my system is working like perfectly like chefs kiss perfectly like it's just you know There's absolutely nothing wrong if I have that itched a distro hop. I'm gonna do it like it doesn't matter So answering the question of what's my favorite distros is kind of hard But if I was forced to answer I would actually have two answers because of course I do I can't just choose one that would be against the rules Or maybe it is supposed to against the rules I don't know the point is is that I have two favorite distros and I use them both every day and At least so far. They're the ones that I continually come back to despite my occasional urge to distro hop I usually use whatever I have that urge to do like I'll go use Debbie in or I'll go use fedora or whatever, but I always return to these two So on this main computer, I have two hard drives One is the one that I use every day is the NVMe. It's the fastest storage has the most storage all that stuff It's fantastic, right and on that hard drive. I have Arco Linux now Everyone pretty much knows my love hate affair with Arco Linux I think it's fantastic and I really wish that I could recommend it to everybody Like I really truly do wish that Arco was amazing and I could tell everyone you should go use Arco Linux Just go do it Unfortunately, I can't do that because the website and the number of ISOs and the confusion over the learning path and The the four thousand videos that are on the YouTube channel and all this stuff It just makes it so hard to actually get into that. I can't really recommend it despite how good it is So Arco Linux is my problem is probably my favorite Primary distribution despite the fact that I can't recommend it to other people my other distro that I like a lot And it probably be my only distro is MX Linux MX is My favorite because there's just this feeling that the developers behind MX Linux truly are In love with their own distribution like they've truly put a lot of passion into making their distribution work just really well and They just it feels like they put a lot of heart into it now I that's a very superfluous reason to like a distribution, but just the fact that has they have Gone to the trouble of making all of these tools that make MX Linux work really well Just kind of has always blown my mind and it's not that they've like like some of the tools they've had to make right There's the the jobs tool that takes place of like crony or something like that And the reason why they've had to create that is because they're not on system D So most of the cron job helpers won't work. So they had to create their own some of those tools I really don't see like I don't use them because like I would prefer something else Like I would prefer something that would work with system D because I want system D That's one of the reasons why I can't use MX, you know Daily is because getting system D to work on it is kind of a hack But the point is is that they have other tools that are just amazing like the iso making tool and the snapshot I think that's the snapshot tool and you can just kind of tell that these tools are Something that they use themselves. So they're constantly updated and they're just really good, right? So those are my two distros and I mentioned it briefly But the reason why MX Linux isn't the main one is simply because system D is not default, right? You can use system D On MX Linux, I completely understand that but getting it to work is Not the greatest and Even once you do get it to work, you can kind of just tell That it's not meant to be there, right? You can like the the main points of using MX Linux is because you want to use the tools and a lot of the tools Are pointless without without using the default in its system So moving to system D just makes you kind of feel like you're just using Debian And at that point you might as well just use Debian because you know The MX Linux tools are the things that make MX Linux special. So it's kind of a convoluted mess. So I use MX Linux on that computer back there behind me on my standing desk And I don't plan on moving it like ever I've come to really love the stability of a Debian base on that computer because I don't update it nearly as much Like that computer is always on because it acts as a file server similar to this one actually now that I think about it But the the point is is that I don't want to have to update that very often because I just don't remember it Like this one here. I remember I'm going to update it for four days I'm gotten to that habit that when they are update once a month Maybe if I remember and the the greatest thing about having a Debian base is you know You don't have to worry about it. Like things aren't going to break if you don't forget to if you don't remember to update So those are my two favorite Linux distributions. Like I said at the beginning They're liable to change like there's a good chance That in a year my answer will be completely different Like I like trying out new things and if I find something that is you know Cool, I might go use that for a while. So for example, there's a couple Linux issues that I'm going to be looking at here in a few days One zero Linux X ERO Linux and the other one is av Linux. I think it is called. That's an actually an mx fork That's supposed to be for creators So those are going to be a really interesting to look at maybe one of those will catch my fancy and they'll be my new Daily driver. Who knows the point is is that that stuff kind of changes if I were to give advice to anyone Who is just switching to Linux? I Would give two pieces of advice The first one is and they're kind of contradictory to each other. So the first one is Use every distro you want to use So I think every single Linux user when they've switched to Linux goes through the period of distro hopping Where they just move from distro to distro to distro Really nearly and they try them all go through that phase. Everyone does it. It's kind of like a rite of passage You know, you want to try them all the second piece of advice is that distros don't matter So it kind of negates the first piece of advice But it doesn't really because I think that everyone should go through that path of trying out the main distros But I think that the reason why you go through that Experience is because eventually you need to get it into your head that the distros really don't matter The things that are important about Linux When you finally settle into a distro of your own are the package manager And the desktop environment slash window manager and the thing that you'll learn is that the only thing that is truly Stuck to your distro is the package manager So if you want pacman, you have to use arch on arch based distro If you want apt you have to use a debian or a budo based distro So once you've settled on a package manager that you enjoy that you like using You've pretty much narrowed it down to those things, right? You're going to be stuck on those types of distros now. There are obviously Movement within those spheres so you can move from arc road endeavor to gruda or whatever if you like pacman But for the most part you're going to be using arch because that's your your package manager The desktop environments they can move moved around you can use mate on Ubuntu you can use mate on Linux mint you can use mate on debian mx linux Arch fedora gen2 whatever you want you can install mate on it and that goes for everything any Window manager desktop environment that can be installed on anything. It doesn't really matter how it looks or feels So someone left a comment on one of my videos recently about how they really liked mx linux But they thought it was the ugliest distribution ever and what I wanted to comment back was Why didn't you just change the theme like that's the thing about linux is the That's the thing That's probably the number one thing that I had a problem with when I first started using linux is that I thought that the look and feel represented the distro So when I moved to a distro and it didn't really suit my fancy in terms of look and feel and functionality I moved on but one of the things that you really should kind of understand Is that that look and feel is not set in stone You can install like take kd plasma for example Every single distro for the most part has a kde spin of some kind unless your linux mint would in which case you got rid of it And you know, they don't want to talk about that anymore But for the most part every distro has some kind of kde spin And for the most part as well most of them look different in some former fashion They have some similarities. Maybe they look they use just the stock kd You know bar and panel and whatever stuff And it looks the same but a lot of them will look really different Some of them will be like garuda and look way different They'll like be completely out of left field that the point is is that all those they're all kd plasma Right, you can choose garuda And even if you don't like the garuda look which I don't happen to like the garuda look You can still use garuda and just change the look and that's something that a lot of new linux users Don't really realize is that that look is not set in stone It's something that you can change and it's one of the hardest parts that I had as well Like for example, I don't like the default arco linux look I don't care for the arc theme and that's their default theme. So I always change it So that's the thing that I think a lot of people need to realize is that the disc This type of environment window manager doesn't really matter Choose a package manager and that's what I've basically done. So in order to choose my favorite distro There are two package managers that I prefer. I like Pac-man a lot. I like apt a lot for different reasons I like the stability of systems that use apt as a package manager There are a lot of things I don't like about apt too, but really I like that the underlying repositories of adebian based distro are less turbulent in terms of latest features Then the arch based repos are on the other hand. I enjoy pac-man and I enjoy Using arch repos. So those are the things that I've kind of settled on that This is the reason why I have two favorite, you know distros is because I like them both For most people they'll choose one and that's where they'll stick So so bottom line is that when someone asks me what my favorite distro is Those are my answers But I always have like a asterix in the in the top point of my answer And that is that they're liable to change and for the most part what my favorite distro is doesn't really matter To you at all because I think everyone should take that path of using as many of the distros as they want Find the package manager the end repository system that works for them the best that they enjoy the most And settle there That's how linux is supposed to work And I think that that's the path that the vast majority of people take They use a whole bunch of them choose a package manager and then they can mess around with the window manager and or the desktop environment all they want and just stay there, you know that's Probably the best for most people and that's how I ended up working So that's the reason why I use our go on this one and I have for You know quite a long time It's why mx sticks on that one for has been has been stuck on that one for quite a long time And i'm happy with that. So that is it for this video a bit of a ramble. I had the Worst time coming up with a topic for today like I did not have Any interest in doing anything in terms of like a distro review or an app review I just I had no interest in it whatsoever. 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