Imagine you wake up and your distro just doesn’t exist anymore. Never did. Like some kind of For All Mankind alternate history situation.
The major root distros: Debian, Red Hat (Fedora), Arch, SUSE (openSUSE), etc.
Subtract the root distro your favourite is based on, or if you’re already on a root distro, subtract that one. Debian users and everyone on a Debian-based distro like Ubuntu, MX, Kali, Debian never existed. Arch and Manjaro users, Arch never existed. You get the idea.
Where do you end up instead, and why?
For me, Debian is my favorite distro. If it never existed, that wipes out pretty much everything I’ve ever loved because on desktop, most distros I’ve spent real time with are Debian-based. Ubuntu, is also Debian-based. Kali, Debian based, so gone! All of it. 
I think I’d end up on Arch Linux. I considered Fedora, but if I’m going to be dealing with upgrades every six months I feel like I might as well just commit to a rolling release anyway.
What about you? If your root distro vanished from existence, where would you have most likely ended up?
What the distro that Debian would act as the next best for if it disappears?
