Top 10 Worst Linux Distros

Linux, in its vast world of distributions, offers options that cater to a variety of users, whether they're hardcore programmers, system administrators, or casual users just dipping their toes into open-source waters.

But not every distro serves its purpose well, and some have made users cringe more than cheer. Think of distributions like Apartheid Linux or Red Star OS that stirred up controversy, or novelty ones like Hannah Montana Linux that had us questioning their very existence. Even popular ones like Ubuntu aren't immune from criticism, given their occasional drastic changes.

The Top Ten

  1. Apartheid Linux

    As you know, this Linux distro is pretty much packed with tons of offensive things.

    The tagline is actually something like For proud whites. To be honest, that's racist. It has offensive wallpapers, such as a Nazi wallpaper and other things I don't know. But it's very racist, more than anything else.

    One last thing about this Linux distro is that it's packed with the most dangerous browser in history, Tor.

    Blatantly racist. What more is there to say?

  2. Ubuntu Satanic Edition

    I think it's stupid that it's an actual distribution, but I'm somewhat not surprised since Linux is open source. This means anyone can come and make their own distro, but honestly, this distribution is taking "open source" way too far.

    I'm highly against Satanism, by the way.

    Hey, you use Linux and worship the devil?

    This is the right Linux distro for you!

    Anyway, Linux Satanic Edition gives me the creeps. It is very creepy and scary, even the wallpapers. This distro changes the icons, like the Mozilla Firefox icon and other stuff.

    It's pretty much packed with death metal, which is great if you love death metal. Like me... No, I'm not a death metal fan. But hey, it's a cool genre of music.

    (Never mind, I love death metal.)

  3. Hannah Montana Linux

    I can't believe this actually exists. Is this licensed?

    This distro is not for Hannah Montana fans. The desktop is ugly.

  4. Linux for N******

    Also blatantly racist. Makes me wonder why people even make this garbage.

  5. Red Star OS

    This one is pretty much crap. Nothing offensive or disturbing, but it's still crap.

    Kim Jong Un tried to make a good OS. Sorry, Kim Fatty Un.

    Here is a cookie.

    It has so many privacy violations, it isn't Linux. Sorry, Kim.

    Red Star OS blatantly plagiarizes macOS and defies the principles of Linux.

  6. Justin Bieber Linux (Biebian)

    DEAR GOD, IS THIS WHAT WE ARE LIVING ON?!

  7. LinuXXX

    It's bad and NSFW. I won't link it, okay?

    BAD, BAD, GO TO HELL!

  8. Linspire

  9. Ubuntu

    From the Amazon analytics, the Unity desktop, and heavy encouragement to use snaps, Ubuntu has a history of Canonical trying to force what they think is best on its users.

    A lot of useless propaganda. "Ubuntu is awesome! Ubuntu is awesome!" Grow up, you Ubuntu people.

    It's just bad and horrible to use, unless you use a fork of it like Linux Mint, or just the original Debian.

  10. Arch Linux

    How do you identify an Arch user? They'll tell you before you ask. I've never seen an Arch user who does any serious productive work. It's unstable. Updates will make you stressed.

    Arch is far too difficult to install for newcomers, and its fanboys are toxic.

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  13. Ubuntu Christian Edition

    They want Jesus and God to use it to keep track of what all the humans are doing so they can know who goes to Heaven.

  14. Debian

  15. Kali Linux

    Too popular with script kiddies. Besides, who wouldn't want a distro that is root-only, only supports its own software, and is used by hackers?

    Hey, you think you're a hacker? Here's Kali Linux. I'm seriously sick of that damn OS.

  16. Robolinux

    I won't say it's bad, but it's kind of dead.

  17. MX Linux

    Fails at being a Windows clone. I have no idea how you could ruin the KDE desktop environment, but the people who made this distro actually figured it out.

  18. Zorin OS

    It's pretty much trying its best to be futuristic and cool, but it looks more like a crappy OS.

    But hey, it's not that bad, so it deserves to be at #10.

  19. Puppy Linux

    The hard drive installations are always slowly breaking themselves.

  20. Manjaro

    Pretends to be suitable for beginners only to require advanced knowledge to fix if it breaks down, which it will. They pretend that packages are more stable just because they wait on them for a week for Arch users to report bugs first. Manjaro encourages users to misuse Pacman commands and perform partial upgrades that cause more headaches in the long run.

    Does the best job of being stable for a while and then suddenly breaking.

  21. Gentoo

    Gentoo takes forever to install packages since it compiles everything from source. Setting "USE" flags is a massive pain, and it can take an entire weekend to get a desktop environment set up.

  22. Fedora

    Kernel headers don't contain all the kernel headers.

  23. Pop!_OS

  24. Ubermix

  25. CentOS

  26. PCLinuxOS

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