Just a simple run down of DistroWatch’s best distros of the year.

Currently using Linux Mint Mate and I gotta agree with them that it’s pretty fucking great. Whats everyone’s favorite distro of 2025?

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    I’ve been using CachyOS for a couple of years now, so I suppose that makes it my favourite distro of 2025

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I have been liking CachyOS as well. I reluctantly switched from Fedora after I kept getting weird problems (definitely a “my PC” thing, I wish I could upgrade).

      Features I like about Cachy:

      • Auto-setup of snapper btrfs snapshoting (my fav feature of openSUSE) on all bootloaders (I like the simplicity of limine)
      • Gaming ready fork of kernel-hardened, with some changes, including allowing use of unprivileged namespaces (needed by Bubblewrap/Flatpak/Firefox/Chromium to avoid the need of a SUID binary)
      • AUR (cus it is Arch)
      • Update service which updates from all installed sources (pacman, Flatpak, AUR)

      What I wish was different:

      • Inclusion of a full system Mandatory Access Control policy (SELinux preferably)
      • Compatibility with hardened_malloc (idk why but on Cachy, GTK apps crash because glycin bubblwrap commands fail)