Because I personally deal with Linux, I often visit Distrowatch. This page is a Linux distribution list. So you can search for the distribution you are interested in and find out if it meets your needs. The website is updated daily with new releases and open source releases.
The Hit Ranking now uses Distrowatch is a method of evaluating interest in distros hosted on the website. Essentially, the service counts the clicks received by each distribution, highlighting the ones that interest the most users.
Until a while ago, the list of the first five Linux distributions for the last six months contained the following:
1 Mint
2. Debian
3. Ubuntu
4. openSUSE
5. Manjaro
Let's say 4 from 5 distributions is LTS (provide long-term support), and 2 from 5 has Rolling Releases, ie roll-up versions. Of course we are talking about openSUSE Tumbleweed and Manjaro which is an Arch fork.
OpenSUSE also has a LTS version called Leap.
The first overturning occurred in the five, as Manjaro managed to get through the standard openSUSE distribution.
So the list of first distributions in the last six months was as follows:
Rank | Distribution | HPD * |
---|---|---|
1 | Mint | 2770 |
2 | Debian | 1811 |
3 | Ubuntu | 1422 |
4 | Manjaro | 1395 |
5 | openSUSE | 1357 |
Personally, I believe that the above results justify the "new" distribution of Manjaro, as I believe that it deserves your attention and leaves many promises for the future. I use the distribution (basically I use both openSUSE Tumbleweed and Manjaro distributions) , I find it very stable, and I would highly recommend it to users who want to leave Canonical.
Let's look at what has happened with the rest of the Distrowatch list. We will see the first 12 distributions.
6 | Zorin | 1109 |
---|---|---|
7 | elementary | 1045 |
8 | Fedora | 1023 |
9 | deepin | 861 |
10 | Antergos | 807 |
11 | CentOS | 792 |
12 | Arch | 728 |
If you are also a friend of Fedora, the list will be particularly distraught since the Ubunton's elementary best-selling show has gone through a long history distribution.
Also Zorin in the 6th position may not make me happy as a classic OS friend, but it makes me think that this distro is used more by newcomers to Linux than Windows, so I'm not particularly sad, as it could mean an increase in inflows users from user of Microsoft.
In the 13th place there is CentOS, a distribution that I consider one of the most reliable for server and desktop environment. The 13th place for such a reliable distribution may indicate an audience's need for the latest software releases and new ones technologies, which is not offered.