that’s terrible advice. distro != desktop environment

people like to joke about arch being hard but that’s mostly just a holdover from installing it being a chore that required a lot of careful manual reading - just use the built in archinstall and it’s straightforward while also being a breeze to customize how you want

once you run archinstall and have arch installed it isn’t any different than any other rolling release distro in difficulty - just use timeshift (or an equivalent, if you know enough already to pick one) in case you need to roll back an update in the future easily

the advantage is having easy access to the most recent versions of all your software all the time - just, if you use the aur for the additional community managed packages outside the official packages you admittedly need to learn to read the package files to make sure they aren’t doing anything funny but otherwise you can just get software you trust the way that the developers recommend

if that all sounds overwhelming instead of exciting, just use debian

start with debian if you want a stable release update style or arch if you want a rolling release update style

the vast majority of other distros are just nonsense stacked on top of one of those two

most of the big distros that isn’t true for are corporate (open suse, fedora, etc.) and should be avoided unless you have a pressing and specific reason

save yourself a headache and just start with debian or arch. what you learn with one of those two will be the most transferrable and they both have huge (comparatively) communities with well developed resources for learning and troubleshooting.

that’s so painfully wholesome

what do you mean?

why assume the attacker is a guy?