I started out with Debian about 16 years ago.
It was relatively easy to install, and it was cool that you could download a minimal image, and then only pull from the itnernet, the packages that you needed during the installation.
I used Debian/stable for a long time, but got tired of packages often being old.
I switched to Debian/testing and ran that, and it was better.
I switched to Arch and ran for about 4 years. It is such a well documented distribution, and it does not try so much to force everything into being streamlines, it instead respects each upstream package, and documents how to configure it.
Installing arm is a lot easier that you'd think, and you get to learn a good deal about how things work.
Ay my jobs, company policies have usually been Ubuntu, and while I do enjoy how most things seem to "just work", I find it more opaque as a system.
Now I'm also running Ubuntu at home, because I'm too lazy to keep up with two different ways of doing the same thing. I've been running ubuntu at home for about 4 years, and while it's nowhere near as elegant as Arch, it gets the job done, and I'll just format and reinstall (like a peasant) if it breaks.
I switched to Arch and ran for about 4 years. It is such a well documented distribution, and it does not try so much to force everything into being streamlines, it instead respects each upstream package, and documents how to configure it. Installing arm is a lot easier that you'd think, and you get to learn a good deal about how things work.
Ay my jobs, company policies have usually been Ubuntu, and while I do enjoy how most things seem to "just work", I find it more opaque as a system.
Now I'm also running Ubuntu at home, because I'm too lazy to keep up with two different ways of doing the same thing. I've been running ubuntu at home for about 4 years, and while it's nowhere near as elegant as Arch, it gets the job done, and I'll just format and reinstall (like a peasant) if it breaks.