I’ve messed around with Linux before, mostly in VMs, but I’m looking to switch over from Windows permanently on my laptop because I think Linux is cool.
Most people in this community talk about pros and cons of this distro or this other distro, but I’d like to hear your opinions based on entirely subjective factors.
I think Arch is neat, I think Ubuntu isn’t as neat, why? Who knows. Tell me about how you chose a specific distro because you thought the name was cool or because it ships with some completely unknown utility no one uses.
Part of the appeal is getting away for corporate control. With Fedora, you roll into Baghdad.
Meanwhile Debian might very well be the single largest anarchist project in the world.
That’s part of the ideological and principaled choice.
Past that it offers long term support for servers and testing truly is pretty good if you want a rolling release.
Arch, Gentoo, NixOS, the BSDs
Arch indeed, but I said largest, not that it’s the only one. The BSDs less so as they are all non profits and have paid staff. As does Gentoo.