When I’m looking for a distro (which I’m currently doing) my core concerns are:
Comes with KDE Plasma pre-installed (or Xfce failing that, I may be better off with Xfce but I want to try KDE).
That any money I’d give to the project would not end up in America.
That any money I’d give to the project would go towards organization doing most of the dev work.
Minimal software set to limit the chance of a malware-infected update.
Gets critical security patches quickly, ideally as close to straight from the horses mouth as possible.
Strong security by default, and a strong security culture.
Monetizes the home user in some way.
EDIT: I went with OpenSUSE Leap (to replace OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which wasn’t working for me). Video encoding works properly now. Doesn’t meet all my conditions but probably nothing would.
RHEL, OpenSUSE,Devuan, Rocky Linux, ZorinOS,Knoppix, Debian, Mint,MX Linux, ElementaryOS, Kubuntu, etc.When I’m looking for a distro (which I’m currently doing) my core concerns are:
EDIT: I went with OpenSUSE Leap (to replace OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which wasn’t working for me). Video encoding works properly now. Doesn’t meet all my conditions but probably nothing would.