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What's the chance that these are actual regular people doing this?
I downloaded Ubuntu recently. Don't hurt me
I stopped distro hopping around a decade ago, and just use default Ubuntu LTS releases. No shade from me.
I'm not going to pretend that Ubuntu is the coolest, hippest, trendiest distro around, but it's good enough, stake enough, and gosh darn it I'm just used to it.
Ubuntu is great because they have a huge community and an enterprise-class, fully supported product. No shade for using it. It’s not my cup of tea, I often find myself wanting to be more on the bleeding edge, and I’ve found Endeavor (an Arch variant) to be amazingly capable.
But I’ve also been using Linux on and off since 97 and exclusove (at least in personal life) since like 2015.
Define "regular people".
Not tech savvy people. Your aunt.