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I was thinking about going the Arch route, I really wanted to build up my system from scratch...
but then I was like "I'm too old for this sh*t", and I'm not even sure what I really want from my machine, so I was looking through distros... openSUSE was my other candidate, but I used Debian based systems and APT in the past 10 years... and I like the philosophy behind Debian, so installed Bookworm.
maybe, after a while when I know what I need, what I use and how I use them, will build my own Arch installation.