I don’t mind adding forks to the list, or distros based on other distros, as long as the distro they’re based on is a community distro and not a corporate distro. Like you point out though, there aren’t a lot of those.

I used to use Mandrake back in the day. Those Mandrake descendants, as long as they’re actively being maintained, could be interesting.

The issue isn’t if something is a fork or not, the issue is if something is a fork of a corporate distro. For instance, there are forks of Arch that still meet the criteria because Arch is a base community distro, whereas OpenSuse is a fork of a corporate distro.

The problem with OpenSuse is it’s based on a corporate product, not an original community base.

But how many of those meet the criteria of not being based on corporate distros and are also user friendly? For instance, I wouldn’t exactly classify Gentoo as user friendly.

Musk is a moron that’s about as smart as any moron that’s a moron that’s been given vast sums for cash from their father’s African emerald mine.

I think people naturally tend toward the servers of the people that started the project and also the servers that have the most people on them. As the federated technology continues to smooth out I think more people might be more comfortable spreading out to other servers.

Personally I started out on the Beehaw server but they had some rules I didn’t like so then I found another server.

These days I mostly use Manjaro, though I’ve been thinking of giving the Suse rolling release a try.