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> The most important thing you can do is completely ignore everyone that says anything about a distribution of Linux on the internet. I will now say things about distributions of Linux.

this was what i was driving home too

> I do not like Arch, but the reason I do not like Arch is a lack of stability: pacman has hosed itself on me a few times and I had to fix the machine to get it working again.

pacman/yay usually doesn't hose itself, packagers downstream can't be fucked to keep their pgp keys and/or package manifest up to date, especially on aur. anyways, it's not a bad distro. just sharp edges.

> but a person that is new to Linux will generally not notice or care about systemd,

i like systemd.

> Gentoo has a slightly higher learning curve than Debuntu but people that use it report that it is fun.

likely because it's a fidget spinner for spergs. just like nix is. rebuilding your system constantly listening to fans spin is much healthier than chewing your fingers and pulling your hair out.

> It is probably worth mentioning that Ken Thompson (one of the initial creators of Unix) mentioned at a somewhat recent talk that he is now using Armbian on a Raspberry Pi as his main OS

wait what? i need to see this. not that i don't believe you. but because it's ken. ken is my bromance.