 So this video is going to make a lot of my audience very very angry with me. They're gonna be very cross They're gonna be very Upset perhaps many of them will unsubscribe from my channel Which would I'd be very upset about and I apologize But I want everybody to keep in mind that I'm doing this mostly for fun and ingest But today we're gonna be talking about the five most overrated Linux distributions ever created. So I Think it should be a little fun But I want to put up some provides those out there some warning some trigger warnings out there before I actually jump in first When I say overrated, I don't mean bad I might mean bad, but I don't always mean bad a lot of the distributions on this list I actually considered to be quite good. In fact a couple of them. I would consider fantastic But they are overrated So just because I say your distribution is overrated doesn't mean that I think that it's bad a couple of them I do think it are bad, but that those aren't necessarily things that are connected in my brain So that's the first one the second thing that I want to say out there is that just because I say your Distributions overrated doesn't mean that I'm coming after you. These are not personal attacks in any way So don't take it personally. Don't get too defensive about it. It's just all in fun So let's go ahead and talk about the five most overrated Linux distributions But before we do if you drop a thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it really does help the channel and It would probably move past some of the negative Thumbs down that I'm no doubt going to beginning because of the amount of vitriol that I'll hear in the comments section below So let's talk about this. So number five on the list is solis OS now solis OS is a distribution It's a dreamers distribution and when I say it's a dreamers distribution I mean is their developers are dreamers they have had many different plans over the course of their existence and many of those plans are still in development and There's no end in sight to those plans, right? They continuously change now They're changing to a different distro. Basically, they're they're moving from solis's base development tools to serpent OS base development tools They'll still be called solo so s but it's very very confusing their desktop environment was attached to their distro for a long time It's called budgie OS and or not budgie OS But budgie right and that was connected to solis for a long time and then the development team kind of split and they had They're a little, you know kerfuffle amongst the developers and budgie was split off and solis when its own direction and now They're back together again. It's like a soap opera is the way that I'd explain it The reason why I say that it's overrated isn't necessarily because it's bad But because it's hard to trust a distribution that has plans like that and constantly moves the goalposts towards what they're looking to do and You don't really know where it's going Like do we think that the serpent OS plans are going to be something that they stick with or are they going to change the Plans again in a couple years. So you really can't Say that it's a distribution that is stable in its execution of what their plans are because they move and they change all the time So solis OS is number five on the list I put it number five because I'm convinced that very few people actually use it to be honest with you I have honestly to tell you I only know one person who really likes solis OS. Well, too One of them is a developer of solis OS the other one is Josh So it was the only two that I really know that have ever used or spent a lot of time with solis I'm sure there are other solis OS users out there But I don't meet them very often. So that's number five on the list number four on the list is Elementary OS elementary OS is a distribution that I have a history of not liking So I will very be very upfront with the fact that I am biased against it But you can't deny that that distribution has Promise and has promised many to things over the course of the last many years and many of those things have not been delivered and It feels at this point that is kind of abandoned where because they have had a kerfuffle amongst their developers They the developers have gone separate ways They fought over money because everybody fights over money, which is dumb, but whatever and you know, you have I guess if the I was talking about millions of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars I probably want to fight about it too, but I ain't got that opportunity. So whatever that's beside the point The point is is that elementary OS has kind of fallen by the wayside despite its immense promise over the course of the last few years It was one of those distributions that even got covered in the mainstream press because it was a quote-unquote new Linux distro that offered a lot of the Cohesiveness that people were looking for in Linux It was very Mac OS like it was very structured in its UI in its approach to updates and stuff like that And since then it has fallen by the wayside and even though that's true I wouldn't say that that's the reason why it's overrated I would say that it's overrated simply because the people who really enjoy or at least enjoyed Elementary OS had such high hopes for it and prodded it along to other people But none of the promise was ever backed up with solid action So this isn't even the first time where we thought it was kind of abandon where like several years ago They also kind of fell off in terms of the updates We had no clue it was happening Eventually an update did appear and then you know they went back on what feels like a hiatus So nobody that really knows what's going on yet There's still a group of people out there who have hi-hi hopes for Elementary OS and the you know the promises that have been made whether or not those promises will ever be delivered on You know is another thing altogether So elementary OS is number four on list number three on the list is manjaro now manjaro When it first came out had a purpose now whether their stated purpose was this or not You can't deny that one of the things that it did was it made arch Linux easy to install It also had the stated goal of making arch Linux more stable and that's still a stated goal to this day It's basically arch Linux, but with a delayed Release cycle so instead of all the updates being pushed right out into the open for everybody to test Basically as a guinea pig like with arch manjaro holds it back Also manjaro has less reliance on the a you are it doesn't push the a you are nearly as much as arch itself does so the idea behind manjaro is a more stable arch Linux distribution and You could probably claim that it does deliver on that. I Don't really know how stable it actually is. I haven't used it in many years But the user base which is quite large It's probably the largest arch based distribution out there is very passionate about it yet use case isn't as Important as they seem to think that it is if you really want a stable distribution You're not going to go the arch direction at all You're gonna go to Debian or you're gonna go to Ubuntu or whatever You're not gonna look towards arch now my biggest problem with manjaro has always been That if you want to have the benefits of arch the big extra if you want to have the benefit of arch Which is the a you are for me that that the shining star of using arch has always been there you are and if you enable that on Manjaro you remove the Benefits of using manjaro. It's no longer once you've enabled the a you are and you started to use the a you are It's no longer a stable distribution therefore Manjaro is weird in that situation where it's kind of touting the benefits of arch but now giving you the main benefit of arch It's very weird in that in that regard And I've never really gotten it to be honest with you and I know a lot of people have now Now if you wanted to argue that the reason why it exists is because it made arch Easy to install during a period of time when arch was not easy to install you could argue that that was the case if That's still the case. That's kind of weird because arch is no longer hard to install So I don't know manjaro is definitely in my opinion overrated and that's number three on the list number two on the list Oh boy. Oh, it's kind of piss a lot of people off But Linux Mint is number two on the list now. I have made claims over the course of the last Three years or so since I started this channel that Linux Mint is useless. I have talked about how Linux Mint is pointless I've talked about how Linux Mint is weird I've talked about how Linux Mint and their fan base are very Touchy, which I still believe is true now. I have Of course More experience with Linux Mint now that I did when I made my Linux Mint is useless video back in 2021 or whatever it was So I have more experience with Linux Mint at this point, but all that being said the idea behind Linux Mint is what? So that's my question and has has been my question for quite a while. What is the purpose of Linux Mint? right now Previously I would argue that Linux Mint had the purpose of being Ubuntu, but with a different desktop environment and with a better and Easier more new user focused software package, right? that they offered a lot of tools and they offered a better post installation method and and setup and Documentation and all this stuff, right? They were very much a new user focused distribution and you could argue that they're still that right that they're very much Still a very new user focused distribution I would argue instead that there are protest distro now I know that that's going to make a lot of people mad because when I say protest distro what you think of you're gonna think of Dev One you're gonna think of Artix you're gonna think of distributions that are protesting system D, you know and I would argue that Linux Mint is an Ubuntu protest distro They're still based on Ubuntu, of course for their major releases. They're still very much tied to The Ubuntu release cycle all of their distribution releases are tied to an Ubuntu release cycle But they don't like the way that Ubuntu works You can tell that because of the their disinterest in snaps You can tell that by some of the things that their developers have said over the course of the last few years They're very much not happy with the direction that canonical has taken Ubuntu And therefore have they have chosen to take their distribution another direction despite still being reliant on Ubuntu as their base Right, it's one of the reasons why I've argued and one of the reasons why I argued in the Linux Mint is useless video Then instead of focus on Ubuntu they should focus on Debian But that is another argument altogether the reason why I think that they're overrated is Because they have become there's this mythos or surrounding Linux Mint that they are the premier New user distro and that may or may not be true. I won't argue either way, but that mythos has given a Legend quality that doesn't it doesn't really deserve because really at the end of the day It's just a protest distro. It's just a distribution that is Ubuntu But without all the things that make Ubuntu Ubuntu if that makes any sense. They've taken Ubuntu. They've carved out all the parts that make Ubuntu Ubuntu except for like the installer and some of the software packaging And they've made it their own which is fine. It's there's nothing wrong with it It's just it's not it doesn't automatically make it into this Fantastic distribution that every new Linux user should use now. It doesn't mean that every new you Linux users shouldn't use it also I'm not gonna argue either way with those people. I'm just saying that Linux Mint is overrated. That's that's my argument I guess I will admit and I should have put this up front that Linux that I'm a little biased a Little biased against Linux Mint. I just never have really cared for it All that much. I've never really seen the purpose of it If you're if you want to use Ubuntu, just go use Ubuntu, right? If Linux Mint just touted itself as Ubuntu, but with a different desktop environment, that'd be fine with me and It's fine the way it is. Of course, I don't have to approve of everything I'm not like the the grandmaster of the Linux world. I don't have to approve of everything Linux Mint is just not for me I also don't think that it is as Fantastic as everybody else thinks it is but again, that might be my bias showing so number two in the list is Linux Mint People are very passionate about Linux Mint despite the fact that the people who are very passionate about it Probably aren't using it. Now. I'm sure some of them are I don't I don't need to hear into comment section About how passionate you are about actually using Linux now. I'm sure there are many people out there who I mean It's a very popular Linux distribution. What I'm saying is that the people it seems that are the most passionate are also people who aren't actually using it They maybe they started off on it and it was their first Linux distro So they have very fond memories of it and that has led them to be very defensive of it, which is again It's it's fine, but I would just like to remind you that it's a Linux distro. It's not Jesus, okay? I'm just putting it out there. Okay So if you thought number two pissed people off, whoo I'll tell you here number one. Number one is Arch Linux now. I know what you're thinking Matt Weren't you an arch fanboy like half a second ago? Yes. Yes, I was an arch fanboy and I still maintain that the AOR is Fantastic, maybe a little overrated towards what I actually think it is and definitely not for everybody but Arch Linux is overrated and I would argue that of the ones that are on this list It's the most overrated which is number the reason why it's number one. That's usually how lists work Matt. Good job Number one on the list is Arch Linux for a reason It's number one for a reason and that reason is is that it's so overrated that their Users have become a meme and this meme isn't even a new it's been around for a very long time I use Arch Linux by the way, right? You have heard this over and over and over again and to the point where it is a meme It's not even a good meme. It's a meme that has been around for so long It's over the meme has become a meme if that makes any sense So Arch Linux and was always a thing, right? It was always something that people were proud of because it was hard to install now every time I say that people were proud of being able to install Arch Linux There's somebody in the comments section was like imagine being proud of being able to install Linux like I Understand that it's a weird thing to be proud of but there's a reason why people touted the fact that they use Arch and that Reason is because it was considered difficult to install that difficulty of installation was the primary reason why People who use it considered themselves Special if you think about it past the installation of Arch Linux what actually makes Arch special It's not the only rolling release in the world I would argue that they you are probably is the only other thing besides the installation that makes Arch special And it's the only one that remains they you are is fantastic. It's spectacular even it definitely Puts to shame many other repositories out there But the installation aspect of their argument is gone yet their error against remains it does Hasn't you know it has fallen by the wayside a little bit, of course to be replaced by the Next one on the list because there is a next one on the list It's actually an honorable mention because we'll talk about that in a minute The point is is that Arch Linux has a fan base that has memafied themselves not mummified, but memafied I don't know if memafied is actually word, but it's gonna be very very soon and they have Made it so that people look at Arch as A meme distro even though it's a fantastic distribution. It's a really good distribution And if you want a rolling release, it's one of the best out there that you can use I would argue that their development method is not so great to be honest with you that they Meander through without any real leadership and that they have no cooler vision for their distribution and that that lack of Distribution vision has caused many problems over the course of the last few months even Where things have been released out into the wild that really shouldn't have been if you asked my bud Steve You'd see you'd hear Many many words with many many expletives about the you know grub and the grub situation, right? So Arch has had many problems and yet their user base bill considers themselves very very Happy that they are Arch users when they Probably should just tone it down just a bit. So I mentioned an honorable mention now Honestly, what I should have just done was made this a six distro list, but to be honest with you I don't think that this last one deserves a place on the list not necessarily because it's not overrated It is overrated, but I don't want to give them and their users the satisfaction of actually being a number on the list It's petty of me. I know but the honorable mention is Nick's OS Okay Now I'm sure Nick's OS is a fantastic distribution. I've only used it for Probably about an hour or so and that's been ages and ages ago before it was popular And I'm sure it's a fantastic OS I know many many people who use it and tell me that it's fantastic in fact There are approximately 30 different users in my discord right now who are using Nick's OS if not many many more and all of them constantly tell me that Nick's OS is something that I have to try I have to try it now. You have to try Nick's OS. You have to try and express. I swear to God That the Nick's OS users are much more pushy about their distribution Than the Arch Linux users ever were now that is saying something because the Arch Linux guys are A meme for pushing their distribution on to other people. They are We all know that and yet I don't think I ever experienced the level of pushing this from Arch that I've Heard and seen and experienced from the Nick's OS community now again I'm sure Nick's OS is a fantastic distribution But it's definitely not a distribution that requires me to use it just because it has a configuration file And I happen to like configuration files. So therefore I should use it. I'm not exactly sure that I I get in so much trouble when I talk about Nick's OS because I I have come to the point where The users have gotten so pushy about me trying it that I've Decided not to try it. I'm being very petty about is what I'm saying But anyways, that's an honorable mention I did not want to give them the satisfaction of being number one Even though it probably is number one in my mind So that's it for this video if I haven't pissed everybody off. Let me know in the comments section I'll I'll try harder next time Maybe I'll I should maybe I should put Ubuntu on this list or I don't know I'll come up maybe Debbie and I could come up with some more to piss everybody else off I'm sure I could come up with a few more. 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