Yeah, and one could even argue that WWII wasn't really about fascism, but expansionism, as Franco was allowed to continue to exist. Hence, the kinda in my original comment.
Have we all collectively forgotten that the whole world kinda fought a war about this a while back? Giving fascists any opportunity to espouse their views is giving them a platform. The only "debate" a fascist deserves is a bullet.
My main distro these days is Gentoo, but I definitely feel the same. I'll write an ebuild anytime it's feasible, and Gentoo has some pretty great tools for helping me keep up with updates for things.
I usually spin up a distrobox container of Arch for anything I need that I don't want to, or can't compile myself. Both CLI and GUI programs work, and you can use podman as the backend.
Kropotkin touched on this in a book he published in 1892, even.
Somebody said that dirt is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.
I will admit this knowledge did have a slight effect on my name choice.