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What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
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Gentoo and Debian. Debian will let you get back to what you really want to be doing whereas gentoo gives you excellent granularity over everything, but can be overwhelming and time consuming.
Really should ask yourself what you'll be mostly doing and pick a tool (distro) that let's you accomplish that.