Most of the bad ones are bad on purpose like the meme distros people have mentioned. These are your Hannah Montana or My Little Pony Linux.
Other reasons they might be bad are they are ran by fascists, like Omarchy.
Mostly the rest aren’t actively bad in any special way, they’re just unnecessary. They’re all still Linux running similar packages, bootloaders, etc. The bones of everything are made by the specific software developers and the distros are largely just putting them together in different configurations.
I would argue something like 5 distros are truly necessary and the rest are just obnoxious fragmentation and duplicated effort disguised as ‘choice’. But they will work fine if you install them.
Anyone who tells you another popular distro is bad is likely to be talking very subjectively. Like how I think Debian sucks because their idea of ‘stability’ means having a Podman package that is 2 major versions behind the current one, lacking significant useful features. Others will say Debian is the perfect server OS or, God forbid, use it for games.
I’d argue Redhat is actually quite bad for how big and influencial it is. Upgrading stuff to later releases is so painful. Support even for Redhats own stuff is like podman isn’t great.
For sure, the corporate side of it sucks. I just swapped my server from Debian to Alma because I wanted updated packages for stuff like Podman, SELinux, etc so it was the first example that came to mind. But there’s also the immutable/atomic vs. regular distros, etc.
Most of the bad ones are bad on purpose like the meme distros people have mentioned. These are your Hannah Montana or My Little Pony Linux.
Other reasons they might be bad are they are ran by fascists, like Omarchy.
Mostly the rest aren’t actively bad in any special way, they’re just unnecessary. They’re all still Linux running similar packages, bootloaders, etc. The bones of everything are made by the specific software developers and the distros are largely just putting them together in different configurations.
I would argue something like 5 distros are truly necessary and the rest are just obnoxious fragmentation and duplicated effort disguised as ‘choice’. But they will work fine if you install them.
Anyone who tells you another popular distro is bad is likely to be talking very subjectively. Like how I think Debian sucks because their idea of ‘stability’ means having a Podman package that is 2 major versions behind the current one, lacking significant useful features. Others will say Debian is the perfect server OS or, God forbid, use it for games.
Omarchy is both technically bad, and run by fascists.
Ironically, Hannah Montana Linux was on the bleeding edge of Wayland adoption for a time. A state of the art distro in this regard.
I’d argue Redhat is actually quite bad for how big and influencial it is. Upgrading stuff to later releases is so painful. Support even for Redhats own stuff is like podman isn’t great.
For sure, the corporate side of it sucks. I just swapped my server from Debian to Alma because I wanted updated packages for stuff like Podman, SELinux, etc so it was the first example that came to mind. But there’s also the immutable/atomic vs. regular distros, etc.
RedHat is also bordering on fascist given its links to the IDF and DoW
Absolutely. Rhel is also not good