Title is quite self-explanatory, reason I wonder is because every now and then I think to myself “maybe distro X is good, maybe I should try it at some point”, but then I think a bit more and realise it kind of doesn’t make a difference - the only thing I feel kinda matters is rolling vs non-rolling release patterns.
My guiding principles when choosing distro are that I run arch on my desktop because it’s what I’m used to (and AUR is nice to have), and Debian on servers because some people said it’s good and I the non-rolling release gives me peace of mind that I don’t have to update very often. But I could switch both of these out and I really don’t think it would make a difference at all.
Artix (current)
Guix (as soon as I have the time)
If you’re OK with using non-free/libre software I reccomend the systemcrafters install guide
https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/full-system-install/
Read about it some other community, perhaps the guix one, and I was keeping it to help me in the future. It relies on nonguix repo which has its own recipes, but this one is nice. I wish I wouldn’t need any binary blobs, but sadly that’s not how things work. Counting on risc-v not just getting competitive hardware, but also motivating the surrounding hardware to follow.
I’ll definitely need it in order to use relatively modern hardware.
Many thanks !