Linux is just Linux, if anything Debian/Ubuntu is mildly weird with the amount of patches, homebrew tooling and non-default configuration they ship. Distros lik

Linux is just Linux, if anything Debian/Ubuntu is mildly weird with the amount of patches, homebrew tooling and non-default configuration they ship. Distros like Arch, Gentoo and so on are pretty much just vanilla packages of upstream. Arch itself only has a handful of Arch-specific software packages: netctl, pacman and mkinitcpio.