Snap packages on Ubuntu can be bloated and slow. They can waste your storage and seemingly slow down system performance.

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PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.