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On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:19:01 -0500, Hank Rogers wrote:

> And how many distros are there?  Is there a good method to navigate all
> these distros?  Maybe something like a distro explorer, or distro
> browser?

https://distrowatch.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

There probably are some badly broken distros but I've never hit one. The 
wiki page outlines the genealogies. A lot depends on the desktop 
environment you prefer but that doesn't narrow it down much. If you like 
KDE, you could use the Fedora KDE version, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, KDE Neon or 
Manjaro KDE but each of those is based on a different parent distro except 
Kubuntu and KDE Neon which derive from Ubuntu ( which derives from 
Debian).

How cutting edge do you want to be? Bleeding, a little more stable, or 
stick in the mud?  Do you want pentest tools neatly packaged like Kali?

I realize choice can be daunting for a Windows user and discussions 
between Linux users often focus on minutiae.