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My guess is if they want free, they'll choose Debian.
I've seen a lot of "actually debian 12 is the best distro now" stuff lately.
While I agree that Debian 12 is great right now, I'm curious how those opinions will hold in 12 months, when Debian isn't even half way through it's update cycle, and people realize they are now a ways behind other distros with regards to package updates.
I love Debian as a rock-solid system. But you have to know what you're getting into with it too.
Ubuntu LTS has the exact same problem. And unlike Ubuntu, with Debian you have the choice to use sid which is as up to date as Arch usually