shows how little you do know regarding Distros. PCLinuxOs has been around 20 years! The only reason you wont know about it, is like what you see in the comments. Mint is pushed by large supporters who advertise is and push it out there onto the market. Expecially for newbies who want an easy windows to linux transition. They will google and go for the one pushed at the top which isnt necessarily the best at all. Dare anyone new, try other distros they will soon learn this. Mint is an overbloated thrown-together rubbishly packaged distros, advertised as the top only because it has the marketing behind it. As opposed to say Manjaro or even this one you wrongly calim as unknown. Pclinuxos has been around longer than Manjaro and is infact better than Manjaro. I like the cdlive feature where you can install, just as you do with other distros, but you can then customize to your liking and pc specs then save that as your new livecd. They even have a very active user forum: https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,161115.0.html. Its typical that people follow the marketing hype and trend pushed by marketing and google, which creates a mass audience that falls in love with a Crap Distros and claims it to be the best when they dont take the time to study, explore and experiment with the other various distros as some of us do. So having experimented and tried most distro being a linux user right back since the 90s, this list of 15 has done the right thing by excluding Mint. I agree with the rating of Manjaro because it is not user friendly so I doubt newbies would go near it and it has its set backs, since it is my current OS but I am currently sorting thru externals where I will be installing PCLinuxOS onto an external, since its also brilliant for that type of operation. I disagree with the hype surrounding Pop!OS as THE best for gaming. Go check out Regatta (Suse based)! And any xfsce platform with the latest wine and a mid to top range pc is suitable for gaming checking priority being graphics card. Its pure marketing gimicks to suggest otherwise. And I agree with the OP regarding PCLinuxOS that it should have been included, especially since it goes way back to the fall of Redhat when it was overtaken by the corporate world but Texstar built on Mandrake/Mandriva 2003 rebranding to PCLinuxOs in 2006! Its prime market audience has been business users. I highly recommend any linux user try it, especially those who are using Mint and believe it to be the best.

Manjaro is FAR more superior than Mint!

How can u compare Ubuntu or Mint with an unknown distro as u mentioned??? Man to be honest, there is not comparison between them, in fact is only possible with a little group of distros like Arch, Fedora, Manjaro, Suse and maybe 3 or 4 more.

I’m surprised you’re not using Windows, if you only care for “professional distros backed by reputable companies with support contracts”. OTOH, you may be using Windows for all I know and just trolling Linux users.

The problem with “reputable companies with support contracts” is that they DICTATE to the users instead of LISTENING to them.

My thoughts exactly!