The best Linux distros of 2018

[crosscourt]

Look here, www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-linux-distros/

[tlmiller]

I agree with most stable and best server...

[crosscourt]

Manjaro as the most beginner friendly made me chuckle but they did remember Mint. Gaming Fedora game spin I couldnt understand at all.
Agree with your two choices as well and best overall distro Im assuming for mainstream users for me would be Mint,

[tlmiller]

As much as I dislike Ubuntu, I would tend to agree Mint is the best for mainstream users. Less resource intensive than Ubuntu proper, a bit more polished as well. And has a similar enough gui to Windows that it's pretty easy to learn.

[crosscourt]

Mint's as close to generic mainstream Linux as you can get. It wont suit everybody but works out of the box for most everybody.

What floors me is, Manjaro is number 1 over at Distrowatch. Its really that popular?

[tlmiller]

A former Unix programmer I work with is a giant Manjaro fan, and I know a bunch of people who love it. Seems like it hits most of the marks for people. It's a simple (calamares) installer, decent default installation for the more inexperienced users, but has all the power of Arch if you need it for the power users.

[crosscourt]

Ive installed it on a number of computers and had quite a few issues. Same hardware Mint iinstalls with no problems,MX17 installs with no problems

Ive read reviews from a number of well known reviewers and they had the same problems I had.