> I've tried linux 3 or so times over the years, always the "friendly" distros. I did the same thing, it wasn't until I used Arch Linux that I really started t

> I've tried linux 3 or so times over the years, always the "friendly" distros. I did the same thing, it wasn't until I used Arch Linux that I really started to understand Linux. It turned I wasn't looking for a wannabe-MacOS distro, I just really liked a minimalist Gnome 3.12+ (when Gnome hit the sweet spot) or i3 based Linux that had zero background processes, installed programs, or anything that I didn't opt-in to. If you want MacOS just use MacOS. On Arch I could run `top` and know what everything is which had amazing performance and battery benefits. Also learning Linux deeply (ie, the directory structures and meaning of /usr /etc, logging, managing services with SystemD, managing diskspace size, proper bash scripting w/ all of the unix tools, etc) really helped me at my job as a programmer ssh'ing into servers.