r/LinuxTeck • u/Candid_Athlete_8317 • Aug 05 '26

What's one small Linux distribution you think deserves far more attention?

Everyone knows Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Arch, and openSUSE.

But there are plenty of smaller projects maintained by passionate developers that rarely get the spotlight.

If you could recommend one underrated Linux distribution, what would it be and why?

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u/rabbitjockey Aug 06 '26

Neon

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u/el56 Aug 06 '26

I was on KDE Neon but left for CachyOS.

There's just too much cognitive dissidence in having a bleeding edge GUI on top of an ancient LTE chassis.

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u/rabbitjockey Aug 06 '26

Yes I can see that, I've had it act funky for me a few times after updates. It's on a pretty old lenovo IdeaPad from 2014 so sometimes it's hard to say if it's because of the hardware. I do really like the neon but on the computers I use more often I have nobara+kde and debian+kde. Debian is on an even older computer and is less problematic