The_Grinch

Arch. I think when people say "bloat" they don't mean it in the traditional sense of the word. Most people are installing plasma or gnome and pulling all the "bloat" that comes with them. To me at least it's more that no one is deciding what they think you're likely to need/do, and overall that makes the system feel much more "predictable". Less likely to work against what I'm trying to do.

Ignore all the comments about Arch being hard to install or "not for beginners". That view is outdated. When I first installed Arch when you had to follow the wiki and install via the chroot method. Now it's dead simple to install with the script and running it isn't any more difficult than any other distro.

Mainly though it's because of the AUR.

because returning to work is all that matters.

Absolutely. This even exists inside medicine. The magic phrase to make a doctor take you seriously is "This is impacting my ability to work"

If you still wouldn't be able to work, well...

This is definitely going to be a diagnosable mental illness after the revolution. The treatment would include a forced vacation, and something like a job fair but for hobbies.

I don't like how so many distros ship with discover configured to install flatpaks by default. It's a huge newbie trap when you click "open file" and uh where are all my files?? You should only install a flatpak if the program is not available for your OS, or if the native version doesn't work for some reason.

It clearly isn't effective to keep a person in a deep hole if you want them to be "productive". Bad times don't make "strong men", adequate nutrition, enrichment, stability, support, and education makes "strong men" (and women, NBs, etc). and those people make a strong society.