Honestly man, of all the communities we have here on lemmy, linux community getting bigger is not what we need. We need all the rest, stuff like tf2, csgo, gaming specific stuff, all the other niche communities.
Debian might have a steeper learning curve than something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Fedora and Fedora based distros are pretty good as well, Bazzite hasn't let me down yet.
The wikipedia is an interesting read too cause I think the author was like sitting in a hotel lobby and asked of the old broken clock there. And it was about two siblings I think were twins and when one died the clock was off, then the other died and the clock died.
Some rough memory but that's what I recalled was the story behind it.
I use arch and so I get the latest kde releases and sometimes things are buggy. But usually those are fixed next update. But yes, it is beautiful but man it's not as stable as something like gnome
Fairephone is European but they're made in china