Help her to set Btrfs assistant and snapper, put the snapshots to the grub menu, then I should be fail safe.
I recently tried CachyOS, Bazzite, PopOS!, Arch, and a few others, but couldn’t get Windows games to run. Several of them wouldn’t even install.
- SCO UNIX
- Minix
- Toyed with the BSDs somewhere around then.
- Linux, but I don’t remember which distros until Red Hat around the turn of the century
- CentOS on the servers when I ran a small web hosting firm—back when one person could do such a thing.
- Ubuntu on the desktop during that time just for variety. I think I started with Dapper?
- Stuck with Ubuntu just from force of habit—or maybe the inert side of intertia. I was okay with Unity but when they switched to Gnome,
- I moved to Ubuntu Studio when it was still based on XFCE.
- Stuck with it through the migration to KDE.
- By 2024 I grew tired of semi-annual or bi-annual reinstalls, and tracking down custom PPEs for updated applications. Plus I lost the wrestling match with the installer to get my preferred partition layout fully encrypted.
- Rapidly ran through a bunch of distros looking for a new home. At one point I must have had 12-15 distros on my Ventoy stick. Got really good at installing distros on my lab rat, and configuring them to my preferences, then less than a week later, starting over with something else.
- Decided on rolling releases over point-release options and even worse, immutable.
- Chose the Arch family. Tried most of them before
- Settling on Manjaro first,
- Arch proper second,
- CachyOS third.
I now run two PCs on each of the three.
Plus the lab rat which could have anything on it.
Linux Mint (at that time still with KDE).
KDEneon
CachyOS (KDE)
- that was red hat 5… i like installing the redneck version.
- Gentoo (coming from FreeBSD beforehand)
- Xubuntu
- Mint
- Manjaro
- Endeavour
- Cachy
I used Gentoo for quite a while before trying something different. Xubuntu / Mint was more a short undertaking of a few years. After that most time with Manjaro for work as well. Trying Endevear a few times. But was not working out for me on my Laptop for work.
And now for a year now Cachy on my solely private Desktop pc.
Oh, if would list all the UNIX Clones… 
AIX, SCO, SINIX, Solaris… and so on
What you used to install it？Lutris or steam？
- Rehat Linux
- PepperMint
- Ubuntu - 22.04
- Ubuntu - 24.10
- Dietpi (Debian 13) + Cachyos
- Zorin (briefly)
- Bazzite
- Fedora KDE
- NixOS
- Arch (longest)
- Garuda
- Arch
- OpenSuse Tumbleweed (briefly)
- CachyOS (current)
- Also maintaining a custom Fedora Kinoite OCI image on the side
Have also checked out Mint, Ubuntu, PikaOS.
I prefer rolling releases, it feels like less hassle to update them (despite all the talk of stability or lack of) then going through a major point release with lots of potential issues.
I flat noped out from Ubuntu, Arch base tends to be my favourite, followed by Fedora base.
So starting since I use Linux the ones I used on Desktop.
My PC is a gaming device.
Ubuntu
Mint
Manjaro
Arch
Fedora
Nobara
Opensuse TW
CachyOS
I really took it serious with Fedora with moving to Linux.
I am fond of Arch but I dislike the lack of a package manager ish GUI software. Sensible Defaults.
With OpenSuse I grew fond of snapshots (snapper and such) and I like YAST a lot. But in the end I ran some issues later.
Now with Cachy I would argue it is hassle free enough to use it for me.
I would probably use EndavourOS instead if Cachy did not exist.
I had some quirks with it too but those are solved. (game related)
I have much more experience with Linux at work too.
I was already rolling with OpenSuse TW.
Cachy got a Snapshot setup.
CachyOS Hello has a solid update handling. Even flatpaks.
Obviously AUR. I really am happy having the AUR.
I flip flop between Gnome and KDE. Maybe Cosmic too once it is more solid.
My current switch to linux is no from nothing. I used Ubuntu 8.04-10.04 a long time ago but reverted to windows since win7 was pretty decent and gaming on linux was not too good yet. Used a lot of Debian and some CentOS as no-desktop servers on a job. Still like Debians for servers.
My desktop distros in current chain:
- Garuda
Honestly, hated it. Almost everything had one or another issues, helping tools were not handing things properly, design is too… gamery even for me. - Mint.
Loved it and still think it’s much better at being ubuntu then ubuntu. Idk why all gnome distributions i’ve seen aim touch-screens. Even apple does (at least for now) understand the difference. Main issue is that getting most gaming-related things from flatpacks meant that some of them didn’t see each other properly. Liked ability to easily force optimums to run everything on nvidia, as it’s all pain in the ass for not-as-new 1060Mq - MX Linux.
Personal favorite, even thought I had to use wireguard for my vpn, as package was not available on it. Moved on, once native factorio said that it can’t install due to too old gcc. There are a 25 version now, which I likely will check out soon. - CachyOS.
Expected to hate it same as Garuda and move on to “proper“ arch. Ended up loving. Most things worked out of the box, what required attention out either explained in cachyos wiki or arch wiki (or both to be sure). Only real issue - installation tool in livecd just silently closes when something goes wrong, so I don’t even know what went wrong. Usually issues are around re-formatting the drive.
PS.: also openmediavault, configured to run zfs with prox kernel on nas. not a daily-driver, but still a linux in daily usage.
I don’t think I can possibly. It would have started with a very basic and long fogotten version in 1994, to Slackware, to Redhat, Debian, CentOS, and a dozen or more others until Ubuntu/Kubuntu and most recently CachyOS.
I’ve litterally forgotten more about Linux distros than I can remember today.
1.Mint (but only as bootable USB)
2.Fedora (reinstalled it multiple times because it would not let me properly sign proprietary drivers and I need Secure Boot since I’m dual booting. It still didn’t work).
3.openSUSE (extremely sluggish LUKS2 decryption at startup, it didn’t support my GPU at all while installing the .iso [black screen at install]. I had to revert to text mode install. And it also had issues with signing drivers for Secure Boot)
4.CachyOS
CachyOS’s installation and Secure Boot setup was comically straightforward compared to the other distros I tried. The setup wiki is also much, much clearer written than Fedora or openSUSE, especially the Secure Boot part.
Overall CachyOS is much snappier and hassle free than the other two, especially on a Laptop (I haven’t really tried Mint out a whole lot).
No, there is no way I could list them all.
I started with Ubuntu, back in the Gnome 2.0 days but when they went to Gnome 3 I tried a whole crap load of other distros. Mostly lightweight stuff as my hardware was always old (peppermint, puppy, etc).
I usually end up back on Linux Mint, mostly because it is familiar and I like a windows like interface (even though I haven’t used windows on my own rigs since 2008 or so).
I have tried open SUSE and a few other similar distros, but I am a creature of habit and always end up typing apt-get or now just apt no matter what I am running and it drives me crazy (along with other habits). So I end up back on Debian based distros fairly quickly.
My current computer is now “new” and doesn’t like the older kernels that Debian based distros have so I switched to CachyOS and it is kind of growing on me. I have only tried Arch based distros a few times and would not keep them for long, but with this computer forcing me to stay on them I think that by the time Debian supports my hardware I will be proficient enough with Arch that I will just stay here.
To answer the title question .. no, probably not.
But some I can remember (in no particular order) are;
- Mint (and LMDE)
- Ubuntu (and xubuntu and lubuntu and kubuntu)
- Debian
- AntiX
- Mageia
- SolydXK
- Puppy (many flavors)
- Tails
- Manjaro
- Elementary
- BackTrack (later Kali)
- Crunchbang (later BunsenLabs)
- Bodhi
There is of course more and I even booted Makulu once. But I never did spend any time with Gentoo or Slackware .. unless you count something like Slackpup (a slackware variant of puppy).
And there are some on that list that are better for specific use-cases and some that I would not use or recommend, at least today.
In the past I tried many, but then ended up using much Windows, and some MacOS for work, But at my latest job I had the possibility to switch to Linux. I read lotsa forums, asked AI what to go with, and started to find the one distro that can handle my last gen Ryzen Thinkpad well.
Started out with Fedora Workstation, which didn’t stay long on the laptop. Then went with Kubuntu for quite some time, but as it wasn’t fully functional and handy, I kept searching and trying other distros on a separate partition. Tried OpenSuse TW, PopOS alpha with Cosmic DE alpha, Debian KDE. None of these worked flawlessly on new hardware, or were not to my liking.
Then for the first time I decided to try something Arch based, and ended up with CachyOS instead of Manjaro.
I gave up on hybernate after I didn’t manage to set it up properly on any disctros, but I loved how well things worked with Cachy and how smooth it was with Zen 4. I’m planning to reinstall it probably with 6.18 and KDE for work and Cosmic for personal use.
When I was giving up on OS/2 I first installed SuSE. It came in two boxes. One for the floppies and another for the printed manuals. There were a couple of single and dual floppy versions I tried prior. No desktop. True “expert friendly” Linux experience. Most of these came in the back of a book that spouted the virtues of LILO.
Stuck with SuSE far longer than I should have. Some time in the 2001-2004 time frame I decided to install Ubuntu due to their “just works” marketing. Yes, the very first release I tried was the one where Ubuntu would run great from live disk, install, pull down updates, then lose all network access on reboot. Why? Agile is NOT Software Engineering. Someone TDDed a network “patch” out the back end of a Sprint that dropped/broke support for all Broadcom chipsets. Those just happened to be in most every laptop on the market at the time.
After that, in no particular order:
- Mint - until they started having massive “we don’t test with NVidia” issues
- Zorin
- Fedora
- KaOS
- KDE Neon - made me swear off all KDE desktops for life
- Puppy
- Lite
- Peppermint
- Sparky
- Manjaro
- Solus
- PCLinuxOS - very friendly distro - machine just died that was running it
- Ultimate - Really needs to attend Jenny Craig meetings
- MXLinux
- Debian 12 - Few other Debian before that
- Ubuntu - various versions as required by embedded systems work
- CachyOS
I’m sure many others have come and gone over the years as well.
Ultimately what I need to find is Medical Device Developer Linux. A distro that doesn’t force whatever pooped out the back end of a Sprint onto an unsuspecting public, because that is one of the reasons people die from medical devices.
That’s much more Debian than cachy.
While what you say is true, Cachy does push out an awful lot of updates. For the medical device world we need it locked and limited.
True, Ubuntu has that virus named Unattended Upgrades that can kill patients wholesale. Several other distros have much the same.
I think you’re reading my comment in reverse.
If you’re not getting into things like obligate flatpak (or snap, or other “pack everything together) usage, immutable systems, and other measures that enforce consistency in execution environments…cachy (or any rolling release) is about the furthest thing possible from “Medical Device Developer Linux”, and Debian Stable - providing security updates to a staling collection of packages fixed at release for years…is about as close as you can get.
Arch (and Cachy) is literally built on the premise of trading away per-release validation in order to get fresher upstream packages on your system more rapidly - with a tradeoff that there will be more common and less predictable (generally “minor”, but that just means easily fixed, not something that wouldn’t have a catastrophic impact in a medical device environment) issues along the way.
Indeed - due to the way Arch is developed, it’s barely feasible (and not particularly maintainable) to even freeze and reproduce a “version” long enough to test with. Cachy is the polar opposite of “MDDL”.