Distros

So what are linux distros (distributions)?

Distros are like flavors made to serve different purposes.

You can ask yourself these questions and then can settle on some distro:

• Do you want the latest software versions? - take a rolling release distro
• Do you want the one which does not break frequently? - take one with a LTS (long term support) version
• Don't like properitary software?
• Want enterprise support and community support?
• Want a minimal operating system?
• Want a lightweight operating system?
• Do you want to compile every software from source?

Debian

• Official site: https://www.debian.org/
• Stable and many other distros are based on this - like Ubuntu and Mint

Arch

• Official Site - https://www.debian.org/
• rolling release distribution
• arco is based on arch

Redhat

• commercial distribution
• fedora is based on redhat, first redhat tests its releases through fedora then it is released for redhat

Opensuse

• rolling released
• maintained by community

Gentoo

• for advance users
• here you compile software if you want to install it

Void

• uses runit init system instead of systemd