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Precisely, people who are against the mainstream distributions and use shit like Devuan or Void or whatever the fuck don't actually do anything on their computers, speaking as a professional in my field... you will not be able to: play modern videogames, watch HDR content, do office work, edit photos, edit videos, do 3D content work, VFX, audio engineering/music production of any sort the more you steer away from the basic four distros (Debian, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE)

These weird, unpopular "libre" distributions with stupid shit like alternative init systems, old audio servers and old display servers are completely useless outside of some basic web browsing - a phone will always be more useful of a computer than a brand new laptop running something like Devuan.

People will have to understand sooner or later that maintaining "UNIX design philosophy" is entirely meaningless to the FOSS ecosystem.

If you're really scared of going for upstream, even something like Ubuntu, or CachyOS, or Ultramarine Linux will be much more preferable to something like Mint, as these are much closer to upstream.

There are also good RHEL distros like Rocky Linux.