https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/9s32fz/comment/e8lnxmk

Do you want "download it and have it act as close to your old, crusting,
probably no-longer secured GUI'd OS as humanly possible while retaining the
ability to provide a command shell via terminal directly off of its
download??!?"

DEBIAN/UBUNTU

Or...

Would you rather be "an industrious user who builds his own system pretty much
damn near from scratch; Forged at first as a PEBKAC that finally removes sword
from stone as a blinking cursor Champion???! The words 'AWK' 'SED' and 'GREP'
tattooed cross thine face like Post Malone??!?!"

Arch motherfuckin Linux, baybee...