Any distro that's based on an existing one but changes or adds very little to it. There are so many dead Ubuntu and Debian reskins
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Not too ick someone's yum, and this ventures outside of Linux.
I dislike the BSDs. Great for getting pf, and not being a homogeneous shop, but just different enough to be difficult outside of one specific use case.
Gentoo was similar. It may be different now, but a pain on the Xbox.
Mint was too dumbed down and ugly.
Ubuntu is useful, but likely harmful with it's constant pushes to commercialize everything.
Redhat is needed for work, but the commercialization drives worse quality. Documentation seems purposely bad to drive training courses.
(Yes, I like Debian.)
I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.
GNU Guix. Need to do an Ayahuasca ceremony sometimes and try again with a much more radiant mind.
Its a meme at this point, but I tried to install arch. Ran into display issues during install and couldn't progress. Gave up and did Ubuntu instead.
I know there's supposed to be some helper stuff out there now to make it go smoothly, but don't think I am motivated enough to retry ever.
Garuda. Looked pretty and tried it for a day or two and noped out. Went back to Manjaro before I figured out how to install Arch without the installer
Linux mint waaaaaaay back when it first launched.
Gentooo, the only reason I' use it is so I could bring up systems on old architectures. Besides that it really isn't worth it.
EndeavourOS - I have tried Arch as well but EndeavourOS is just nicer out of the box. The AUR is awesome, and I generally find answers for any problem more easily than I did for any other distro.
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Anything that's not Ubuntu, because it's the "mainstream Linux", so guaranteed I'll find anything I need there.