Additionally, PopOS and Garuda were polled, but didn’t appear in the final list. Based on the spreadsheet provided, PopOS should be #16 and Garuda should be #24.

Place	Distro	Average Score	Has been Tried
1	SteamOS	4.19	27%
2	Fedora	4.18	65%
3	Arch Linux	4.04	60%
4	Bazzite	4.04	15%
5	Linux Mint	4.03	73%
6	Endeavour OS	3.92	31%
7	CachyOS	3.87	11%
8	Asahi Linux	3.84	7%
9	Fedora Silverblue	3.77	18%
10	Nobara	3.73	22%
11	Alpine	3.71	19%
12	OpenSUSETumbleweed	3.67	29%
13	Debian Stable	3.63	63%
14	Debian Testing	3.63	23%
15	NixOS	3.52	23%
16	PopOS	3.41	49%
17	Tuxedo OS	3.36	10%
18	Gentoo	3.26	16%
19	Ubuntu	3.23	88%
20	MX Linux	3.14	16%
21	Linux lite	3.13	9%
22	Puppy Linux	3.13	16%
23	OpenSUSE Leap	3.11	19%
24	Garuda Linux	3.09	18%
25	Slackware	3.00	10%
26	Peppermint	2.99	9%
27	ZorinOS	2.94	29%
28	Vanilla OS	2.93	13%
29	KDE Neon	2.85	30%
30	Rhino Linux	2.83	4%
31	Mageia	2.81	4%
32	Solus	2.74	9%
33	elementary OS	2.71	28%
34	Manjaro	2.64	53%
35	Chrome OS Flex	2.03	21%
36	Deepin	1.97	15%