Love this guys, hope he lives forever!

If you got bored by Fedora is probably the right choice for you. Otherwise nothing compares to Arch, esp if you “I’m still learning and only know some basics, but I want to go deeper and really understand how things work under the hood.”. Another safer-nobrainer is Tumbleweed.

Using a filesystem which has NONE of modern features because you “noticed” performance tradeoffs…

Encryption in btrfs? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Encryption

So why would somebody run that on their homeserver compared to tried and true staples with tons of documentation? 🍿