What flavor of Linux is everyone using? Why do you think it works well for developers? Got a new laptop and I'm trying to decide what to put on it. My other laptop has a dual boot of windows 10 and Kali Linux (my sudden interest to become a developer came from a desire to be better at Infosec/netsec stuff)

Curious to see what everyone uses from a developers perspective. Not sure I want to develop on Kali and windows is shit.

Arch all the way!

Mint, that's pretty Windows like. I think every Linux that has a decent package manager is a huge timesaver when trying to figure out what libraries are missing that cause that compile error. I've had problems with that on Windows: does this thing come with Win SDK, .NET, Visual Studio or some DLL from dlmalwaredll.com and what version it supposed to be.

Manjaro.
It's pretty neat, but you do need to tinker with it in order for it to work the way you want. It's not Ubuntu/Mint.

Antergos is Arch-based; it's pretty neat, especially with the KDE and KWIN

Manjaro (and other arch-likes, including arch itself) are in my opinion great for beginners who have tried Linux at least once before. Getting arch to work has taught me so much more than anything else I have done on linux.

Opensuse tumbleweed Particularly if you like yast

I've been a Fedora user for more than half a year now. Very happy with it and it just does its job well :)

ubuntu/arch flavor will do the work, for me Manjaro/ubuntu(xfce/gnome 3), the arch community is great, ubuntu is more beginner friendly,

I don't know what exactly is the problem with Debian, but no one recommends Debian, why??? Can someone enlighten me.

Ubuntu

@freedev
Packages are too old.
It's too stable. More fit for servers which require 100% stability and uptime.

@clovisIrex thanks a lot for the reply, I had some confusion regarding this but you cleared it, that means for up-to-date bleeding edge packages arch, Ubuntu, mint are preferred and for old but stable packages for servers Debian, centos is preferred.

Why do you assume we use linux to work? 😁

Want to learn more about linux and programming? Gentoo :D guys don't yell at me please :p

++ for arch

Ubuntu. It just works.

@clovisIrex for bleed edge packages, the way to go is arch, ubuntu not so much, the reason for that is arch it self and community, the arch community is more than great, for the begineer friendly part, i don't know, i can say that i didn't even test arch(or any distro of it) for a long time because of this saying, but after i had the courage to test it, i was really upset, begineer is really relative, i can use arch, install package and mod them (if they are not complicated) and i still consider my self as a newbie when it come to linux, just use a distro for arch; i think Manjaro is easy to install, for ubuntu, ubuntu gnome or xubuntu,

I think I'll check out Arch, I've dealt with Kali so I wouldn't consider myself a complete linux noob. But Kali is also pretty straight forward for the most part.

@freedev Debian is noting, it does nothing else than any other distro. It's so without flavour.

Kali is based on Debian but calling it without flavor would be false af.

Ubuntu Mate. Works, lots of packages, lots of community help, looks good.

I've considered Ubuntu cause I've used it before. Just was curious if there was anything particularly dev friendly that I didn't know about.

Elementary OS, the mac alternative based on ubuntu.