Does the speed/location of repos factor into your choose of distro? I am in Egypt and while linux mint repos speeds are fine when updating and installing here, fedora and manjaro are incredibility slow, manjaro especially is the slowest, like maybe 30 minutes or more slow for an install that takes a few minutes in linux mint
I am assuming that ppl in the USA/Europe don’t have this problem. Does anyone else have this same issue.
I choose Debian for wholly other reasons, twenty years ago now, but during all these years their comprehensive network of mirrors has always been good enough that I never considered switching for that reason, anywhere I moved to.
https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
debian’s cdn is crazy fast, the default apt setup in debian 13 chooses mirrors dynamically and it’s really good