Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:

I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being maintained next century: Fedora.

I want a carefully hand crafted desktop experience curated for me by people who know what they're doing: KaOS.

I want to carefully hand craft my own desktop experience from scratch, I don't care how many wikis I have to read: Arch.

I think I'm somewhere in between those two extremes: Manjaro.

I'm a gamer: Bazzite.

I'm a Mac: Elementary.

I'm a Haskell weenie: NixOS.

I think rms made some good points: Debian.

I think Tommy Robinson made some good points: Omarchy.

I like South African billionaires: Ubuntu.