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.

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    Artix (current)

    • Vanilla as much as possible (same as Arch)
    • Rolling release (same as Arch)
    • No systemd (my personal preference)
    • AUR availability (still an Arch derivative)

    Guix (as soon as I have the time)

    • Similar reason as for Artix
    • Reproducible builds
    • Guile
    • Static configs