There are three main families of disro’s (Redhat, Debian, and Arch). The vast majority of disro’s are based off one of these. Once you pick a family you want th

There are three main families of disro’s (Redhat, Debian, and Arch). The vast majority of disro’s are based off one of these. Once you pick a family you want the actual distro usually doesn’t really matter. The differences beyond the main family tend to cosmetic, which IMO is kind of pointless. The thing I enjoy about Linux is customizing it to my liking, I pretty much never want what a distro offers by default. The main difference in the families is the package manager. So, long story short, pick a distro with a package manager you like (or want to try), and forget about most of the rest. The only other detail worth paying attention to is the type of release a distro follows (rolling or not), pick whatever release method suits you best.