Because I personally deal with Linux, I visit Distrowatch often. This page is an online directory of Linux distributions. So you can search for the distribution you are interested in and find out if it meets your needs. THE by clicking here it is updated daily with new versions of distributions and open source applications.
Hit Ranking now using Distrowatch is a method of evaluating interest for 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 at 6 may not like me as a friend of the classical operating system, but it makes me think that this particular distribution is using it most Windows Linux newcomers, so it does not make me sad, especially as it could mean an increase in input users from the Microsoft user database.
In the 13th place there is CentOS, a distribution that I consider one of the most reliable for a server environment and desktop with. The 13th position for such a reliable distribution, may indicate the need of an audience for the latest software releases and new technologies, something that is not offered.
