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But how are new and small distros going to grow if no one uses them?
My advice is to experiment with distros you find interesting, but not on your main devices.
I don't think the advice is that people should ignore small distros but that small distros won't be as beginner friendly.
Really learning to function in Linux involves a lot of searching for what went wrong and being in a larger distro increases the chance that somebody has run into your problem before.
I agree. Perhaps I got confused when reading the other comment.
Small distros aren't good ones for beginners, because support plays a great role into they first experiences.
That you should take them with a grain of salt and see their track record over time. If a distro is only up for a month and ran by one person, maybe don't make that your daily driver. If that same one person keeps going for 3 years, maybe consider it having more legitimacy. Even mediumish size distros like Void Linux almost crashed over night. Big ones like Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE won't ever die over night.