[cbo]

If you want to learn the entire Linux ecosystem, I can't recommend Arch enough.

From personal experience, don't try to install Arch on your machine unless you have another internet-capable device in hand. You're going to reach for ArchWiki several times.

Of course, ArchWiki is an incredible resource with great examples, so as long as you have it, the process is mostly painless.

Arch is kind of an intermediate Linux in terms of how much it will rely on your configuration. Not quite Gentoo, but far, far, far away from Ubuntu.

[Adaptive]

There's also a local installable mirror of the arch wiki. I don't know how often it's updated but if I didn't have multiple machines laying around I'd put this on my arch laptop:

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/arch-wiki-do...