 It's probably the very first question every Linux user asks when they're switching to Linux is Which distro should I choose? Well, here's the thing. I don't think anyone really chooses their distribution I think the distribution actually chooses you because at the end of the day And you know, I can't guarantee you that the distribution that I recommend to you is even going to work on your hardware or for your use case or maybe just personal preferences because that's a thing to sometimes you just don't like the look and feel of a distribution So you move on to something else and this is the thing when you choose a Linux distribution You're not Signing up for a team, right? You're not choosing a team and you don't have to defend that team Like it's not anything like that. It's not it's not a personal Kind of decision that many people seem to take this as a personal thing Man, just try out some distributions, right? So I'm one of these people I've used Linux for a long time I have run so many Linux distributions on physical hardware on my main production machines So it's not like I've ever signed up for a team, right? I had to defend it because I'm perfectly okay with moving on from whatever I'm using now To something else in a few weeks or a few months or whatever it happens to be in my Linux journey, you know, I started out with Ubuntu like most people did back when I started my Linux journey around 2008 or so Ubuntu by far the most popular desktop Linux distribution at the time No question probably still is the most popular desktop Linux distribution And you know, I began that journey because Ubuntu at the time was the easy Linux distribution to install and as a noob That's what you wanted. Also. I liked Stable, right? I didn't need a rolling release at the time, right? I just needed something to install on my machines and once it worked everything was set up. It was good That's all I needed rock solid stable. That's why, you know, in my early days of Linux, I really liked Ubuntu LTS I really liked Debian stable. I liked old and crusty You know, I liked those distributions that you just install on something and you set it and you forget it, right? And then about, you know, four and a half years ago, I started this YouTube channel And that didn't that no longer worked for me, you know, the old and crusty, you know, Debian stable Ubuntu LTS Because I often on the channel wanted to install software That I needed the latest versions for in some cases that were new pieces of software that hadn't yet made it into the Debian Repositories and that's when I switched to using mainly arch based Linux distributions because of the rolling release nature So it's one of those things Things change, right? What what was perfect for me Earlier in my life No longer worked at some point. So I had to make a change and that's fine You know, and if down the road I'm no longer making YouTube videos And you know, I want to go back to that set it and forget it mindset I'll go back to doing Debian based stuff. Maybe or maybe I'll move on to something else It wouldn't shock me if at some point I get tired of the arch ecosystem and move on to something a little different I really kind of like the way Distributions like nicks and geeks do things as far as the reproducible builds and you know, they just the Immutable aspect of those particular distributions. I could see myself eventually You know ditching arch and moving over to one of those kinds of ecosystems You know, I'm not saying that I'm definitely going to do that But I could imagine me doing that again, you don't join a team and have to stay with it Right, it's okay to move on to different distributions. And again Your your use case is going to change the distribution you install as your first distribution Is almost certainly not the one you're going to be running a few years from now Just let me just put that out there. There are going to be problems You're going to run into some stuff that's going to make you think Maybe I should try out something else because this problem I having on this distribution Maybe this other distribution will have so you'll try something else And you might like the new thing and you might stick with it Or you might not and go back to the old thing or you might try a third different distribution, right? It's one of those things Ultimately don't have this mindset where you think you go out and you choose a distribution And that distribution is guaranteed to be your distribution. That's not the way it works You're going to try out a bunch of stuff and eventually a distribution again, it chooses you And don't be surprised if at some point that distribution Unchooses you as well and you have to move on to something else. All right guys peace