I hope you'll enjoy the journey, it's not one of the easiest!

I prefer something like Arch Linux. Time is scarce and Gentoo is quite demanding in that regard 😉

Since you seem curious about distros, may I suggest you take a look at #NixOS? The concept is VERY different from any other distribution, you might find it appealing.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I only theoretically looked into Nix until now. But did not quiet convince me to use for a workstation. Can you maby mention what benefits you see, from using nix? From your own experience.

I would be very happy to have one day a kind of automated setup, to quickly install a computer and have every tweak and stuff the same as I had on an other computer. Best would be a automated install.

Main benefit is exactly what you described.

Plus it's clean, secure, and makes you feel like you have your personal majordomo.

But the learning curve is a problem.