# Do you know distrochooser? **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010 "2021-06-07T21:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mbod](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/mbod/32/16833_2.png) [@mbod](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/mbod)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/1 "2021-06-07T21:16:56Z")
Today I stumbled over distorchooser > **[Distrochooser](https://distrochooser.de/en/)** > > Die Linux Auswahlhilfe hilft Anfängern und Umsteigern in der Menge von Linux-Distributionen die passende Linux-Distribution zu finden. It is a questionnaire that will propose the Linux distro for you which best fits your answers. Guess what my result is: Arch Linux … Interesting! ---
**Author:** ![keybreak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keybreak/32/9257_2.png) [@keybreak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keybreak)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/2 "2021-06-07T21:31:41Z")
> I know what ‘systemd’ is and wish to avoid that. 🤣 * * * 1. Scientific Linux 2. Arch, btw ---
**Author:** ![anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon53396576)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/3 "2021-06-07T21:36:03Z")
`I often need help by other users troubleshooting problems with my computer. ` 😶 ---
**Author:** ![keybreak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keybreak/32/9257_2.png) [@keybreak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keybreak)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/4 "2021-06-07T21:37:50Z")
I like to combine that option with soystemd one 🤣 Should it give something like LFS then? 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon53396576)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/5 "2021-06-07T21:38:37Z")
It should return mint 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![onyxnz](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/onyxnz/32/70681_2.png) [@onyxnz](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/onyxnz)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/6 "2021-06-07T21:43:27Z")
> **[Distrochooser](https://distrochooser.de/en/659199)** > > Die Linux Auswahlhilfe hilft Anfängern und Umsteigern in der Menge von Linux-Distributionen die passende Linux-Distribution zu finden. Archlinux for me too…hmm, how did they know… 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/codic12/32/23959_2.png) [@codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/codic12)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/7 "2021-06-07T22:18:37Z")
Got these: Gentoo, Slackware, LFS, Qubes OS, Void Linux, and NixOS. No Arch 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/reemz/32/20301_2.png) [@ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ReemZ)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/8 "2021-06-07T22:18:55Z")
The special features question remains unanswered if nothing is ticked - what if I’m not interested in any of those features though? And this is ridiculous: > On Linux you can install software on different ways. You can build software from the sourcecode or install them via packages. What do I prefer? > > - I want to install my programs using a kind of “App store”. > - I want to install software mostly using terminal commands. Erm…I don’t think the answers here relate to the question…whether I install from source or from the package manager, both can be done from the terminal… _edit:_ [Anyway](https://distrochooser.de/en/659222). Arch (of course!), Qubes OS (never heard of), Void (heard mention of it, no idea if it’s worth looking into), NixOS (another one I’ve never heard of, and wtf is declarative configuration?), Gentoo (god, no!), Slackware (maybe I should give that a try just for the sake of it), Devuan (can’t remember why I never bothered tbh), Bedrock Linux (yabbadabba…what? Never heard of…), LFS (ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat!), Scientific Linux (…but why?), CentOS (yeah, no. not after the C8 debâcle…), RHEL (see CentOS, also did I say I wanted to pay for support? ermmmmmmmmmmm no…) Long story short: I’m sticking with EOS, zero reason to move! ---
**Author:** ![anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon53396576)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/9 "2021-06-07T22:28:39Z")
> [@ReemZ](#): > > “App store”. 👆 ---
**Author:** ![ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/reemz/32/20301_2.png) [@ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ReemZ)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/10 "2021-06-07T22:30:05Z")
Not even sure what they mean by that…a graphical frontend to a package manager, like this `pamac` I keep hearing people talk about? ---
**Author:** ![codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/codic12/32/23959_2.png) [@codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/codic12)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/11 "2021-06-07T22:30:59Z")
> [@ReemZ](#): > > _edit:_ [Anyway](https://distrochooser.de/en/659222). Arch (of course!), Qubes OS (never heard of), Void (heard mention of it, no idea if it’s worth looking into), NixOS (another one I’ve never heard of, and wtf is declarative configuration?), Gentoo (god, no!), Slackware (maybe I should give that a try just for the sake of it), Devuan (can’t remember why I never bothered tbh), Bedrock Linux (yabbadabba…what? Never heard of…), LFS (ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat!), Scientific Linux (…but why?), CentOS (yeah, no. not after the C8 debâcle…), RHEL (see CentOS, also did I say I wanted to pay for support? ermmmmmmmmmmm no…) btw, just for future info: Qubes is some sort of containerized distribution IIRC Void is great NixOS is great, declarative configuration is where you configure everything centrally with .nix files in it’s case Gentoo is great… if you have hours to compile Slackware is something I have no idea about Devuan is just Debian without systemd Bedrock isn’t a distro, it’s something you install on top of another distro which lets you use other package managers LFS - gentoo without a package manager EOS is best! ---
**Author:** ![ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/reemz/32/20301_2.png) [@ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ReemZ)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/12 "2021-06-07T22:43:31Z")
> [@codic12](#): > > LFS - gentoo without a package manager 🤣 And yeah Gentoo is great, if indeed you don’t mind spending most of your box’ cycles on rebuilding it instead of using it 😉 > [@codic12](#): > > declarative configuration Still completely unclear, and I’ve looked it up but found nothing but programming stuff - and I’m not a programmer. Any stupid-level reading you could recommend? > [@codic12](#): > > EOS is best! 💯 ---
**Author:** ![wordler](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/wordler/32/14412_2.png) [@wordler](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/wordler)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/13 "2021-06-07T23:08:09Z")
Arch…btw! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![ricklinux](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/ricklinux/32/110798_2.png) [@ricklinux](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ricklinux)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/14 "2021-06-07T23:20:32Z")
I was hoping i wouldn’t get Ubuntu. I got Arch … BTW. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/codic12/32/23959_2.png) [@codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/codic12)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/15 "2021-06-07T23:39:40Z")
Here’s something super simple, albeit oriented around building a web app: [https://nixos.org/guides/dev-environment.html](https://nixos.org/guides/dev-environment.html) Basically, you configure everything with one functional programming language called Nix, instead of having a myriad of different formats. NixOS also has an atomic filesystem and doesn’t follow the usual filesystem standard, FHS (eg, /usr is read-only) ---
**Author:** ![codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/codic12/32/23959_2.png) [@codic12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/codic12)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/16 "2021-06-07T23:39:58Z")
At least Ubuntu’s better than Windows! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ricklinux](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/ricklinux/32/110798_2.png) [@ricklinux](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ricklinux)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/17 "2021-06-07T23:40:36Z")
Anythings better than Windows. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![anon63071375](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon63071375](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon63071375)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/18 "2021-06-07T23:49:16Z")
I think everyone just gets Arch. ---
**Author:** ![ExDebianuser](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/exdebianuser/32/13699_2.png) [@ExDebianuser](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ExDebianuser)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/19 "2021-06-08T01:22:37Z")
Same thing here—Arch first, Qubes OS, Gentoo---- Results: [https://distrochooser.de/en/659272](https://distrochooser.de/en/659272) ---
**Author:** ![ThisPoorGuy](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@ThisPoorGuy](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThisPoorGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010/20 "2021-06-08T02:07:22Z")
Pretty sure if you pick “fast updates” you end up with gentoo or arch by default 😉 Neat little questionnaire though. [Next page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-you-know-distrochooser/15010.md?page=2)