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@itsfoss my choice would not be easy for others. Gentoo cause it is actually the only one I understand how to use... the "easy" ones confuse me for some reason...
@itsfoss Isn't everything basically @debian anyway?
@wuffish what do you mean?

@zstg Weird. This only popped into my notifications today.

There's at least 77 distros based on Debian, perhaps more. Wikipedia has a "family tree" on the article linked below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

@itsfoss #linuxmint : it grants access to computer for more people!
@laivsalocin @itsfoss Uou can't have #LinuxMint with out #Ubuntu and #Debian. It is based on those. But I agree with you. Thenext best would be #LMDE and then just #Debian

@bananabob @itsfoss #ubuntu was my first distro, but I couldn't stand with the last Ubuntu interface.

No problem to get ride of Ubuntu repositories with next #linuxmint if we keep the wide possibilities and easiness of use.

@itsfoss No offense, but it's just a bad question. The whole point of the diversity of distros is that there's an amazing range of tools to fit different skill levels and use cases.
@drhoopoe @itsfoss just click bait question. Don't feed the trolls

@itsfoss Well that's a loaded question but I think I'd go for #debian at that point.

I think the more relevant question is "which package manager" or "which desktop environment"... those have way more of an impact than the distro IMHO. #linux #timtowdi

@itsfoss First thought was Arch because that's the distro that I've gotten to like very much (and daily drive) but if there was just 1 distro, I have to hand it to #Debian. It's rock solid, it doesn't shove packages you don't want down your throat, it's predictable, relatively lightweight. Doesn't randomly break shit on you.

Though for desktop, its repositories can get stale, I guess that's where Flatpak comes in with newer desktop app packages regardless of what the Debian repo have.
@itsfoss #EndeavourOS all the way!! Newbs can still use it and you have all of the power and latest software at your fingertips.

@itsfoss prob like gentoo or something simple

Idk maybe Debian but like choice is a major factor in this question, if only one to exist maybe LFS or gentoo simply to expand the range of what that distro can do that is supported.

Maybe even like Debian though the default apt package commands are wayyy too long to type. Would have to set many aliases for that

@itsfoss I really want tp say Arch, because I do love Arch and what it can do. But I also understand that having a user-first distro is... Not the best starting point. It's not exactly unstable in my experience, but assuming we don't ger derivatives like Endeavour and Garuda, it'd be a hard sell for anyone to get into.
I'm a firm believer of the "There are only 5-7 distros and everything else is a flavor of one of yhem" school of thought, so it'd probably go to Debian or some derivation of it. Something relatively easy to get into, but still allows you to customize it and get it running how you want.
@itsfoss Debian ... no one that knows me would have thought I'd say that a few years ago.
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@itsfoss my choice will not be shocking, debian 
@itsfoss either gentoo or slackware. dont ask why ;p

@itsfoss One of the great things about Linux is how customizable it is. You can't satisfy everyone and different distros give different out of the box experiences.

Asking people which one is like asking which selection of pizza toppings should be the only choice.

There is no perfect distro, there are only perfect distros.

@itsfoss don't wanna think about that scenario, ruins the point of Linux and decentralization. Libertarian OS.
@itsfoss Bedrock Linux, bootstrap other distros on top of it.

Otherwise I'd go with NixOS