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I recently started using a fedora based distro. Specifically bazzite which is one of the read only root distros and a drop in replacement for steam os on deck and PC. In the grand scheme of things I don't really see the read hat stuff changing much. Canonical does shit the community at large doesn't like too but people keep using Ubuntu and it's deranged and deformed babies. I mainly used arch(, btw) for a long time but I really don't have any attachments to any particular distro and can switch at any time, like I have recently for consistency between my main computers and steam deck.