I’m wondering if there’s ever been a table/spreadsheet created to provide a basic breakdown of most, if not all, distros at a glance. I’m not talking about subjective metrics like some charts display (e.g. user friendliness, cutting edge, community, etc.), but about objective criteria like the following:
Available architecture
Desktop environments (possibly with individual categories for filing system, window manager, terminal, etc.)
Shell
Package manager
Installation (e.g. CLI, Calamares, etc.)
Unique features (the one or two most distro-specific items)
I can’t imagine one doesn’t exist somewhere, but I couldn’t find one with a cursory search. If an up-to-date and comprehensive one doesn’t exist, perhaps I could start one and the community could help fill it in. I have ideas on how to organize it, but we’ll only cross the bridge if necessary.
P.S. If I need to move this to “Find Me a Distro,” please let me know. I put it here since I’m not asking for help finding a specific distro in this post.
I’d looked at the distros by popularity on there, but evidently had never looked at one individually: it has some really handy tools! Their table for each distro is pretty close to what I was looking for, though I see two things that I would like to be different: 1). A larger table that allows for more than one distro to be viewed at a time, and 2). Updated/more detailed info. On CachyOS for example, it only lists one of the boot managers that it mades readily available (though I understand you don’t want to make the table too crowded).
Thank you. This is even closer to what I was looking for. Between these two resources, I think I have what I want for my purposes. As someone still relatively early in their Linux journey, having that info at a glance is quite helpful.
