If it is the rolling aspect OP likes about arch. Then absolutely. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is amazing. But I do think something like Gentoo is more arch like in the sense that you got to do most things your self.

Arch Being cult like is stereotypical. Far from reality.

Rhel and Fedora are separate entities and work on their own, but they do influence each other.

Keeping OpenBDSM alive 😆

I use it daily it works fine.

Old kernel = old drivers. Its that simple… Things might work on a basic level sure. Drivers baked in to the kernel and when you use a damn old version of it you get old drivers and old hardware support.

Also a load of closed source stuff is on github.

Github or the variations like it just make it easy to look at code when publicly available.

Debian is so old it doesn’t work on very modern hardware… So what your talking about?

Also Ubuntu is not a “server” option. They do have a server option yes. It is the most used desktop or at least was.

Also I used arch for ca 2 years not once needed to use a backup. Even though I abused the hell out of it.

Most major distros are fairly secure by default without things breaking (arch is a exception there, As you got to set that up your self).

If you want to go extreme their is Qubes OS. But you can not swap that across systems like you might want do.

Dont be scared of a terminal. It is your friend 😁

If you can I always prefer a M.2 instead of a SD card for the OS. I have burned true so many SD cards in the past. caching and updates to the OS can break the SD card eventually.

Actually fairly simple to do. Get a large USB then use that as the target for the install you boot from a second USB. Now you got a full Linux install on a USB

Ahh I see yes that’s better.

Which is a bad thing if your user is in the sudoers or wheel group

Suggesting NixOS to a completely new user is stupid. NixOS is cool but very different from almost all Linux distros. Comes with its own language you have to learn as well.

Thing is. Mint is for the most part a just works distro. Based on Ubuntu it is very easy to find help for it. Combine that with a load of sane defaults like disabling snaps. The default UI and theme could defiantly use a facelift

Because when a ad gets served true the same domain as the content you can not block it. DNS filtering Is good but not a magic bullet

Yes please help i2p grow. It is better in many ways and just lacks content for the most part.

While coming up with such flawed laws as well. I doubt they even look at the feedback

Instead of a VPN just route everything true tor. And block anything that tries to get around it.