Wouldn’t it also be a conflict of interest if they were renters? How can someone not have any interest in housing?

Not doing any work is not improving society

Life is based on assumptions. It’s a good assumption to assume people online speaking English is from America

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Just pick a distro. It sounds like you want to learn. I suggest arch. It does the least for you, is the least opinionated, but also has by far the best documentation (arch wiki is the de facto linux documentation).

The difference between the distros is otherwise simply what package management tool they use, and what packages are in their repository. Nothing else is different that’s of any importance.