has around 69 different file-systems

VFS maintainers decided it’s time to lay out documentation with more clear-cut guidelines for getting new file-systems upstreamed.

Not really the same situation as that xkcd. They are not creating a new fs.

I have switched to using helix, so no matter which distro I am on I need to change it to be my default by setting the EDITOR env var.

Yeah… Ubuntu packages are never up to date on release date. They freeze them months before so they can iron out any bugs with the versions they picked. You don’t pick Ubuntu or any point release distro to get up to date packages.

LSF is not a distro. It is a instruction manual and teaching aid. Don’t use it as a base for you main OS. And IMO Gentoo does not really teach you more then Arch does. It gives a bit of flexibility that not many care about (how things are compiled) at a very big cost (of having to compile everything yourself). I would not use either unless compiling things is your hobby.

Sure, try them in a VM if you really want to. But I would not really consider that moving on from your current distro nor do you really need to do that.