WTF is all that ahown in one paragraph and WTF can't i edit and fix it? (Sorry folks, it was my first slashdot comment)

About 15 years ago I experienced linux for the first time with RedHat, then move on to Caldera OpenLinux, then Mandrake and Fedora when I started college, then Debian after a while, and a few years later I started a long term relationship with Ubuntu (not very passionate, but really, really comfortable), after which I switched to Mint (for the very same reasons others describe: Apart from getting fat and bitchy with Unity, I felt like Ubuntu "cheated" on me with the Amazon deal and therefore lost my trust). I finally landed on OpenSuSE, don't know for how long, but it's where I'm right now and I'm very happy with it (And yes, I know about the deal with Microsoft: probably something to worry about in the long run but still good for me at the moment. And BTW I don't care to admit I'm a seasoned XP and windows 7 user, and maybe I don't know them as well as I know linux, but I think not to know your way around them proves almost as bad as not having some linux skills, and sometimes even worse). I also thoroughly tried other distros like PuppyLinux, Lubuntu, Slitaz, Slackware and Wifiway (from which I learned way more about cryptography and authentication than in any of my computer security related engineering courses). On my current VPS I started with Ubuntu Server but now I feel more comfortable with CentOS. I don't think I will ever need to be in such control over my distro's features, but in case I do I can always take the time of building something LFS based or use Gentoo so I can compile every package I want to install with my custom settings while maintaining a sane updating system and not worrying about dependence collision. From my experience, there's no one-size-fits-all distro, and that's the coolest thing about the linux ecosystem, so just try as many as you can and use that which best fits your preferences with the less customization effort, remembering it's not sacred marriage and you can move on if your distro stops pleasing you (though putting some time and effort in the relationship before sending it down the drain usually pays off :)) TL;DR: 15, 10 and probably even 5 year younger me would praise and recommend to everybody the distro I was running at that particular moment, but lately when somebody asks me which distro is better I always say: go to distrowatch and check some of them, giving each enough time to make an informed decision.