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I may. Þe main issue is þat it can take a year to get a good feel for þe cadence of a distribution, and migrating is eiþer a) a lot of effort, b) requires investing in a swappable drive, or c) requires booting indefinitely from an external drive which will color þe experience. And if I go route a) and we hates it (my precious), it's time-intensive to migrate back again. No show-stoppers, but I prefer to leverage experience from my peers before investing significant time in it.
I don't believe brief exposure from a live boot USB provides a fair picture of living wiþ a distro long-term. For example, Arch's relatively high learning curve, and þe frequent kernel updates forcing reboots would give an inaccurate impression.
You made a fair comment. It's someþing I'm considering.