[planning thread] Linux Distros & DE list

[Jack.EXE]

Ok, let's actually bite the bullet and create a list of Distros & DEs (seperately) in order of recommendation.

 

This will take some time to put together, as well as many polls & gathering screenshots.

 

Polls will be Strawpolls, so I dont have to spam the forum with poll threads.

 

Distros to start with:

(in no particular order)

1. Ubuntu
2. Mint
3. Fedora
4. Arch
5. Elementary
6. CentOS
7. OpenSUSE
8. Debian
9. Deepin
10. RHEL
11. Yellow Dog
12. Black Lab
13. Slackware
14. Mandriva
15. Zorin OS
16. Gentoo
17. Ark
18. Bodhi
19. ZenWalk
20. MoonOS

 

DEs to start with:

(in no particular order)

1. Unity
2. Gnome
3. Cinnamon
4. DDE
5. XFCE
6. LXDE
7. KDE
8. MATE
9. Pantheon
10. 2bwm
11. Awesome
12. bspwm
13. cwm
14. dwm
15. i3
16. Openbox
17. spectrwm
18. SWM
19. Hawaii
20. RazorQT

[Jade]

Common (desktop) distros: Arch, Debian, Elementary, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu

Common (server) distros: Cent, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu

popular DEs: 2bwm, Awesome, bspwm, Cinnamon, cwm, dwm, GNOME, i3, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, spectrwm, SWM, Unity, xfce4

[Jack.EXE]

eventually, when the list reaches say 32 each? I'll make some straw polls to rank them, then post a thread with them actually organized.

[Jack.EXE]

26 of each, enough for polls?

[Jack.EXE]

had to cut it down to 20 to get some polls going, and strawpoll is out, it only has 4 options.

[Opcode]

You can actually pull real world results directly from DistroWatch.

[Jack.EXE]

You can actually pull real world results directly from DistroWatch.

 

I want the forum's reccomendation.

 

I've looked through various wikis for Arch, red Hat, Debian, and others for the DEs

[Jack.EXE]

Distros in alphabetical order:

Arch
Ark
Black Lab
Bodhi
CentOS
Debian
Deepin
Dragora
Elementary
Fedora
Gentoo
Mandriva
Mint
MoonOS
OpenSUSE
Pardus
Puppy
RHEL
Sidux
Slackware
SuperX
Ubuntu
Vector
Yellow Dog
ZenWalk
Zorin OS

 

DEs in alphabetical order:

2bwm
Awesome
bspwm
Cinnamon
cwm
DDE
dwm
Gnome
Hawaii
i3
KDE
LXDE
MATE
Openbox
Pantheon
RazorQT
spectrwm
SWM
Unity
XFCE

[Jack.EXE]

time to make a poll thread.

[Opcode]

I want the forum's reccomendation.

 

I've looked through various wikis for Arch, red Hat, Debian, and others for the DEs

Are you looking for a distro and DE for yourself?

[Jack.EXE]

Are you looking for a distro and DE for yourself?

nope.

 

just want to make an official list for the forum.

 

I'm in love with my cinnamon fedora.