When I first began researching Linux, for my needs, I found the number of different Distros to be overwhelming. So I made this flow chart, with the intent to help new users find a starting point for choosing a distribution.
I'm open to critique, as to making this chart as helpful as possible.
EDIT: Chart updated based on suggestions in the comments.
A dominant reason to use linux is LLM hosting/docker on your most powerful machine. "Leading edge" can be support for deskflow (mouse/keyboard sharing) which needs ubuntu 24.04 (not that leading edge, but mint not yet there).
AI focused distributions should be a thing, but ubuntu, fedora are 2 defaults. Your daily driver can also be your server hosted environment, and the distro you'd rather use to setup new servers. LLMs being part of "software" hosting category.
updating flowchart to include this use path might be nice.
Holy Shit, Barrier but good is here!!!!
I had no idea, I thought we were all waiting for input leap to get out of alpha and release something... My heart goes out to all the devs <3