[jack-torrance]

Debian in my opinion is best on servers which will have uptimes of months or even years on wired connections.

In such setups, the hardware driver quirks were most probably solved decades ago and as a bonus you don't have to babysit the server. Just install the OS, forget about it and focus on whatever is really bringing you value.

What drove you away from Arch Linux on your laptop?

[BbzzbB]

Can't say I was drove away from Arch as I just tried Manjaro for a bit while figuring out what distro I wanted to stick to. But it seemed to me that it required more googling to do just about anything, and since a lot of Linux programs are made with Ubuntu in mind it seemed more straightforward to get going with a Debian based distro. Might have misread the situation since I had zero Linux experience, but I figured sticking with Debian was gonna minimize how much time I'd have to be setting and fixing my system. I think there was something in particular I was struggling to get working but my memory is hazy on that.

Probably gonna try again some time but for now I try to think as little as possible about my OS as long as I can code on it.

[hollerith]

Most of the info you need is on wiki.archlinux.org, which is so good that users of other distros prefer it to other sources of Linux info. (I'm a Fedora user, but refer to it so often that I have a "shortcut" in my search engine for "site:wiki.archlinux.org", and others on this site have praised it.)