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Part of the appeal is getting away for corporate control. With Fedora, you roll into Baghdad.
Meanwhile Debian might very well be the single largest anarchist project in the world.
That's part of the ideological and principaled choice.
Past that it offers long term support for servers and testing truly is pretty good if you want a rolling release.
Arch, Gentoo, NixOS, the BSDs
Arch indeed, but I said largest, not that it's the only one. The BSDs less so as they are all non profits and have paid staff. As does Gentoo.