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Distrochooser says following about fedora
Without any context. Distrochooser is a fun little game but you shouldn't rely on it or quote it.
Moreover, it would be nice if there was any hint about the choices.
Show which distros are free as in beer and which are not.
And more importantly, you pay a fee for support. If you are a home user you most likely do not need paid support.
That avoiding systemd is even a choise is nuts
Yes, there are people who avoid systemd but thhere's nothing to fear about systemd and this topic shouldn't be brought up.
And the answers are windows or mac. Please go away from that mantra. Many would say GNOME is macish but GNOME's workflow is different from macos. It is not macos and it doesn't want to be macos, afaik. GNOME's workflow is revolutionary and saying it's like mac isn't nice. Neither is KDE windows, it breaks with microsoft design choices.
Asking 32 or 64 bit is outdated. Which computer even ships 32 now
Where does following question lead me?
Fedora is for everyone. Linux mint is used by everyone. Opensuse is used by everyone. Arch is used if you want to go deeper. Nixos is maybe not plug and play. Even if you are a linux pro, you may use ubuntu. It just doesn't feel right.
I really want to know what the crossover is on people who know what systemd is, much less have any actual reason to decide they wish to actively avoid it, and those who would find this the best way of determining their next distro. That has to be a vanishingly small group of people.
Good luck finding one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd
Deceptive list that appears to include only distros that don't package systemd at all. A distro can offer more than one init system. For instance, Gentoo defaults to OpenRC but offers systemd as an option for users who want it for whatever reason. It isn't on that list.
(But I agree that if you know what systemd is and that you don't want it, you're not using Distrochooser. You're not looking up your next distro in Wikipedia, either.)