> When a friend of mine started his first business a couple of years or so ago, and he asked me for advice regarding the choice of operating system for the comp

> When a friend of mine started his first business a couple of years or so ago, and he asked me for advice regarding the choice of operating system for the company service and product, I recommended a specific Linux distribution with a very high level of control, i.e. you need to set everything up yourself (no gui click-click solution) This is terrible advice. Fiddling with system files in an OS is not their core business, so why would you ever recommend they waste precious business time & effort doing so? The most important questions to consider when installing an operating system for a business are: Does it run the software I need stably, how much work is it to set up & maintain, and what kind of support can I get/buy? As for the rest of the article, distro hopping is a great way to "shake out" various operating systems to discover what you like and what you don't like about each. Reading the brochure is not enough; you want to get opinions and advice from various sources (even Reddit) to build a narrowed down list of promising avenues, and then test drive a few until you find one that you can be overall comfortable with. It's a lot like buying a car. Maybe a distro won't work with the hardware you need to use. Maybe a feature you need is broken or unavailable with no estimated fix date. Maybe it's too bleeding edge and suffers more breakage than you're comfortable with. Maybe the distributed software is too old and updates too slow. Maybe it's too much work to maintain. Maybe it won't let you customize the things you care about.