Yeah, but the keyword is large. Because there are many community distros that are hardly updated. Case and point, Spiral Linux is still stuck in bookworm, even though this week 450 people downloaded its iso.

Depends really. Small community distros serve a purpose as they either provide some niche configurations or pre-installed software that major distros don’t, or they are made because they are trying to fork a major distros that is becoming too corporate with risk of becoming less open source. Now within community distros there are reputations. Debian is famously a community driven distro that hundreds of other distros are based on, and so is arch. They are pretty stable and will last more and more. Also, corporate distro doesn’t guarantee longevity or stability either, because there are several corporate projects that get abandoned and are picked up by communities.

Media literacy is already low for average American, combine it with the low IQ of a cop, and you get this.

It’s not a hot take, but it only applies to specific type of newbies who want to keep using Linux like they use windows, because a newbie will stay a newbie on an atomic system. Those who actually wanna dwell into Linux and take full advantages of things like customizing & scripting, will feel restrained. But then again, only a newbie could really tell if that’s the case.

This is not a religion.

Tell that to arch evangelists

Windows -> Mandrake/Mandriva -> Fedora -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Manjaro -> Arch -> NixOS -> CachyOS -> PikaOS

Yes, freeze like mouse is frozen too, and key strokes don’t work either. No Ctrl alt del. I have to do power reset from physical button.