I had a professor once who’s thing was Russian history from the 16th Century through WWII, and various other connected things. Who said once that the founders of the Paris Commune are rolling in their graves, to see what became of their movement. Side note He was kinda Conservative but he gave me the reading list that turned me against Capitalism, “If you’re going to read left wing sources… I can at least point you at the good ones”
There is an aspect to this that I’d like to mention, and that is you should consider the community of people around your distro, when makling this choice. There’s a point at which online guides won’t suffice, or you won’t know what what to Google, and you’ll have to reach out on forums or IRC or something, although i hear kids these days like Discord. I have long sense learned to pick my distros based on the people around them. I was Debian/Ubuntu foir years but switched when they started giving me bad vibes. Fedora has been great, i just wish there contributor documentation and onboarding was a bit better. And on community factors I’d recommend Gentoo over Arch any day and twice on Sundays.
this is a point I think most newcomers to Linux/Fediverse/Indieweb/etc. fail to grasp. To use these technologies, puts you in a far closer relationship to the people making/maintaining the software, then you would otherwise be. To Microsoft/Google/Random Cooperation. You’re just an inconvenient expense. You’re probably not even the primary customer. But to your instance admin, your linux distro people, you can be much more, and you’ll have a better experince if you at least pop by and say hello occasionally :)
Anyway sorry for the length of this response, tl:dr check the forums and chats before you pick a distro see how they treat people, see if you vibe because you’ll depend on those people to keep your stuff running
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