Fedora, it’s bleeding edge, but stable enough for a daily driver. Also, most things work out of the box.

Why can’t mom and pop store compete with Costco?

This how you sound.

I know you want to go deeper, but here’s a nice summary of linux’s early history: https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

The choice of the letter d was brilliant, that’s for sure. Now I’m imagining a folder with a large D.

There’s no need for that, we’re all on the same side, and the GNU tools may not be an os by themselves, but they are a crucial part of any Linux distribution.

I have a small gripe with this article: CTRL+K, CTRL+U and CTRL+W don’t “delete”, they “cut”, and the clipboard can be accessed with CTRL+Y, which the article also fails to mention.

Now do cinnamon!