MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

It looks like my time with MacOS is rapidly coming to an end. Any Linux distro recommendations these days?

After you've gotten used to Linux, you might want to try Arch.

It is lightweight, since you choose everything that is installed, sort of opt-in.

It has all the latest software.

It has "rolling releases" which means there is never a giant lost-weekend distribution upgrade.

It has the AUR (arch user repository) for just about any software ever.

I used Arch on a server once (still running) but found the experience on Debian was more to my taste, and somehow never liked pacman. Maybe it's time to take another look. I never tried it on the desktop.

Interesting, I have opposite experience. Pacman looks so much simpler than aptitude, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg. And makepkg - it just works. I have not managed to create packages on Ubuntu.

No outdated packages, no ppa. No upgrade. Install is rough but it nails how simple the system is.

Ubuntu is a good starting point. But there is so much more.