Hello fellow Anons I've finally come to the obvious realization

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Hello fellow Anons I've finally come to the obvious realization that Windows is a shit OS mostly because I hardly game anymore.

I've been reading through the wiki and it's been very entertaining reading about how the creation of GNU/Linux emerged from a myriad of flamebaiting personalities like many of the voices on this board. Are there any good documentaries on the boisterous personalities or development of GNU/Linux?

Also I am trying to figure out which distribution to choose for my OS. I don't really game anymore and mostly just plan to code in C++(to contribute to open source projects) and also to troll across the net. Are distributions fundamentally different at a core level or do they just have different packages of software included because that seems like the only differences at the surface.