1. Ubuntu LTS
2. BionicPup (Portability & Rescue)
3. ExTiX Deepin 20.1 (Portability & Rescue – and welcome to Top 10!)
4. Zorin OS 15
5. Mint
6. Linux Lite
7. Kodachi 6.1 (Portability & Privacy)
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9. Patriot OS (welcome to the Top 10!)
10. Solus 4.1 (Combined Budgie & Gnome & moved down)
1/31/20 Update: A great OS for having only been around since 12/27/2015, but it is no replacement for Ubuntu 18.04.3. I never cared for the standard “bleeding edge” buggy rolling release method, and this new “Curated rolling release” seems ‘asleep‘ or something (?!). Solus is new and apparently its repository is very limited – e.g. didn’t offer the KShutdown™ button. Solus also requires a 6 digit – or whatever – long password…tried to change it to zero or three, but it doesn’t allow it. Linux developers have no clue about actual desktop/laptop users, i.e. they are still stuck in the ‘DOS‘ keyboard ‘Age‘ on some remote server near Dagobah and want to force their version of a “secure” computer onto users. If a desktop/laptop computer user doesn’t want the ridiculously annoying password prompts, then they should be offered a simple setting to turn off all password prompts (e.g. like Microsoft Windows does!!!!). Also, even the Solus 4.1 GNOME version (see below for Budgie Wi-Fi problems) seems to have Wi-Fi ‘weird‘ problems like needing to be rebooted after a cold start in order to find the Wi-Fi connection again!? I will test it for a little longer, but have moved Solus 4.1 to the #10 spot on Karmi’s Top 10 Linux Distros page…for now.
01/29/20 Update: Solus 4.1 makes it to the Top 10 (GNOME @ #2 & Budgie @ #7) … this is the second time that Solus GNOME DE has made it into the Top 10. BionicPup was ‘bUmPeD‘ from that #2 spot for this first time, I believe. Windows 7 Users – ‘Solus 4.1 *KICKS* some Linux Buttocks!’
01/25/20 Update: Added Peach OSI/Patriot OS to the #10 spot.
01/15/20 Update: Moved Linux Lite up to #5 and removed some older reviewed Distros.
08/25/19 Update: Have removed MX Linux from the Top 10 – I apologize for overrating it in the beginning.
08/02/19 Update: Understanding ‘Karmi’s Top 10 Linux Distros’ – is an explanation of blog’s ratings…
Found another great Linux Distro I have been saving for testing, and those tests went so well late last night that a Top 3 — #1 Ubuntu 18.04 – #2 BionicPup – #3 Kodachi 6.1 — rating list wasn’t going to be big enough to include this newly tested distro…thusly, the need for this post on Karmi’s Top 10 Linux Distros page (just below the ‘Posts’ section).
I’ll be putting together a part of that list today, and fill it in as more thought is put into it.
Will be updated as needed…
