# <center>Face it, we're talking about your "main OS".  Everyone knows dual-booting sucks anyway.  </center>

## <center>Therefore </center>

# <center>This article is, by necessity, deathly serious.</center>

## The Contenders

* Ubuntu - Debian's more enterprise-friendly and rapid-deploy centered younger sibling.
* Arch - A fully rolling linux distribution replete with peril.  
* Debian - The prototypical linux distribution.

## The unfairly shunned:
* Fedora (I don't know a fedora from a funny hat, so I've not bothered to attempt to divine its secrets here.) 

# The Strong points:
Each of these distros has its own strong and weak points, here are each platform's strong points:

#### Ubuntu
 * Slick Installer and quick setup of an attractive (depending on your tastes, that is...) desktop environment
 * Openstack Support & Landscape deployment system
 * LXC support alongside docker support
 * Ubuntu for phones exists, supposedly

#### Arch
 * Package updates are immediate
 * docker, lxc both work, though because Archians do not trust user namespaces, that doesn't work fully by default
 * Fully rolling distro means that packages are continually updated
 * Requirement that everything be started manually results in a very precisely set up distribution environment
 * AUR

#### Debian
 * Largest distro
 * High package availability 
 * One of the oldest distros
 * provides a desktop in several window systems 


# The weak points

#### Ubuntu
  * Do you wanna try our special canonical sauce? It's delicious!  
  * Everything canonical
 
#### Arch
  * Software availablity is limited
  * The Arch way seems to prohibit many sensible steps that could improve both Arch's packaging and the linux packaging situation in general. 
 
#### Debian
  * Oh, you want support, eh?  E-mail lksadfljsadlfj@asdlkjfasdlfj.net ; a mailing list for those living in dungeons of C
  * Lengthy waits between releases