Well, I guess I’m off to read the fkin wiki now.

You can always install an arch derivative like endeavour instead and click through the wizard

Multiple accounts, offline backup, better UI, don’t need to log in, etc.

Or it’s just a distro that allows you to have a list of packages, configs (when it’s not significantly simpler an clearer to just stow), and rollbacks for both. Depends on you.

I believe it’s got a death and purgatory feel to it if you don’t know some coding, so it should go nicely with the card.

No missing/outdated/renamed dependencies while building it?

Did I ask for a command? Give that a try in Debian 10…

Ok, show me how you compile Emacs 29/30 on a fresh Debian 10 install in a few minutes…

Or use a stable distro, need a package newer than 2 years, and don’t want spend a day compiling dependencies of dependencies.

why the hell should I trust a US project

Bekuz Amerika fridom wurld polis, best kontri in da world!

But on a more serious note, did you know Linus banned those Russian contributors like a month after redhat and DoD signed a new deal. Can you guess who owns RH stocks?

or has the most packages of any distro

That’s very much open to discussion. You can’t just go by the number of packages because nixpkgs for example has multiple python versions as separate packages, each with a set of the same libraries just with a different prefix.