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Why the downvotes without comments... Just because you disagree in someones opinion does not mean it is wise to downvote, the article has some valid points.
Because these types of lists are not real. What makes 3 better than 4? No one knows. It’s a fake ordering. Also, it’s Linux, so you can do any programming workflow on any distro. One is not inherently better than the other except for maybe community base. The points brought up for each distro are actually just buzzwords.
That’s why the downvotes
I think there is a misunderstanding, the numbers or how they are ordered is not the point. It is more to show that those distros are widely adopted and accepted, especially in the developer scene.
I agree with you that it is impossible to compare one distro with another and then rank it based on random things you make up for an article without explaining why you rate x above y.
However I think the list is solid, arch and Fedora are from my own opinion good ground for developers. I cannot say much about the other distros since I avoided them or did not test them.
Personally, I think that list is bad, because 3 out of 5 are Debian/Ubuntu and in my opinion, Debian & Ubuntu are among the worst distros for programming, because they have so many outdated packages and do comparatively much custom-patching in their libraries, which falls apart quite quickly when you need to tweak anything about your system.
That isn't to say that Debian & Ubuntu are bad for programming. It's just that all the hundreds of other distros are basically equally good, so Debian & Ubuntu being slightly worse, should put them far away from a Top 5 list.