What is the best alternative to Tails?

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What is the best alternative to Tails?

Easy to find help with any problem

No default support for non-free hardware

Wide choice in desktop environments

Ridiculous package splitting

Standard vanilla Linux desktop

Internal quarrels harm the project

Wide choice of hardware platforms

No choices

Very stable

Slow boot

Highly secure system

Buggy and non-user friendly

Comes with over 37,500 packages

Old software is not useful, but is stable

Well-working team

Live install images for CDs, DVDs and USB thumb drives

A lot of ways to install software

Great for gaming

Rolling or Release based

Install and forget

Backed by the biggest Linux kernel contributor

Unstable

Focuses on innovation

Proprietary drivers are unsupported

Integration with GNOME

Updating to a new release can be problematic

Frees developers from some backward compatibility restraints

Too many changes to upstream packages leading to a "Fedora way" of doing things

Spins and Labs

Not for beginners

Fast and stable updates

Optimus support is straight terrible

Fast performance

Focused on binary release debian and worse at source build infrastructure

Strong commitment to free software philosophy

Slow

Can still be installed in a bad sector on the hard disk

Wayland does not work with Prime/Optimus

Huge array of binary packages ready to install

Extremely low minimum system requirements

A bit ugly

The whole OS runs off of RAM

No built in compositing

Designed to run as a live USB/CD

Smallest software library ever

Linux distro designed for this exact purpose

Not as light as it used to be

Offers a long term support release

Different distro based versions available

It can be the only distro that works

JWM used as window manager

Extra launchers

Limited hardware support

ARM Virtualization

Google Play Store

Rooted with a few clicks

Arch User Repository access

The Manjaro unstable repository is slow to sync with the Arch stable repository

Based on Arch and user friendly

Can still be unstable

Support for multiple kernels

Weekly manual updates

Improved stability due to a longer testing period for new packages

Bad Dependencies

Installation is a breeze

Very slow development for 32-bit hardwares

A rolling-release distribution

You can't change the default theme in certain applications

Excellent graphical package manager (Pamac)

Nothing new

Stable and consistently up to date

Bad way of handling dependencies

Good documentation and forum

Friendly community

Uses low memory

Manjaro provides its own distribution-specific tools such as the Manjaro Hardware Detection (mhwd) utility, and the Manjaro Settings Manager (msm).

All major desktops and even less common ones like Budgie, Lumina, LXQT, Deepin, Enlightenment, etc. can be directly installed from official repositories

Steam installed by default

Deepin desktop environment is a worthy attraction