They say debian is free and has its promise, but Arch has like 2-4 maintainers?
Use FreeBSD. It literally has FREE in the name.
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Arch is a challenge, be prepared to spend more time learning and tinkering than using your computer for the first few months (and forever). It's not impossible, but you will most likely have to reinstall a few times as you learn. If thats what you enjoy, great. Go for a distro made for the lay person like Mint or Bazzite. There's a backup program called Timeshift, it will replace windows snapshots and can help you recover from mistakes without having to start over.
If you put your home drive on a separate partition/drive it will be easier to distro hop as you try different ones. Still, make sure your data is backed up, ideally put the backup on an external drive that you can unplug while installing new a OS.
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I mean, you can install each in a VM if you want to play with them.
free as in free beer: literally any distro other than winux/linuxfx/wubuntu free as in libre: trisquel
What do you mean by free? Why did only those two make your list?
In general, I recommend Fedora KDE Spin (or Fedora Kinoite if you know what containers are)
For your question, I would go for debian. But the answer also depends on your use-case. Software dev? CLI user? Gamer?
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