The assumption is insane!

To meaningfully recommend a distro, someone would need:

• Long‑term, real‑world experience with multiple distros
• On multiple hardware configurations
• Across multiple workflows (gaming, dev, media, office, servers)
• With multiple desktop environments
• Under multiple update cycles
• Across multiple years of breakage patterns

Nobody has that. Not even distro maintainers. Not even YouTubers. Not even the loudest evangelists.

What they have is:

• One distro they used for a while
• One or two they tried for a weekend
• A handful they've only seen in screenshots
• A bunch they only know through memes, hearsay, or tribal lore

But online, everyone talks like they've run a 20‑year longitudinal study on every distro ever released.

It’s not "this is the best distro for your needs." It's "this is the distro that fits the story I tell about myself."

Distro advice assumes a shared reality that doesn't exist. Hardware differences alone make most advice meaningless. Their "rock solid" distro could very well be a nightmare on your GPU, broken on your Wi‑Fi chipset, laggy on your DE, or unusable with your monitor setup.