That’s exactly why I migrated from Fedora to Arch, I want a distro with little to none corporation influence.

To me, the real Linux experience is Arch.

i’m not ready to go to arch yet since i’m not comfortable enough but i’m curious; is arch based in us or outside? i know mint is based in eu/ireland. i do wish i went with mint debian instead of mint ubuntu but next time

Check out Garuda. It’s a really stable, well maintained version of Arch. I’ve been running the same install of it for over 9 months with only one screw up that garuda’s own health tool fixed for me.

It’s been a great way for me to learn Linux and Arch, and it rivals Bazzite in my own gaming benchmarks.