Quote:Now if you want to learn how linux works in-depth, you could try a more "rawish" system like fedora, crux or gentoo.

I always thought than Fedora was an easy-to-use, out-of-the-box distribution.

I think ArchLinux is very good, because you will learn a lot (you have to do the maintenance/installation yourself), but everything is very well documented (the beginner guide is great for... the beginners :P ) and the forum is very active. It is also bleeding-edge, which means you'll have the new versions of the softwares really fast, but it is not always stable and sometimes it break.
If can also try Gentoo, which is a distribution made by and for experienced power-users. I didn't try it yet so I can't judge it, but I know that it is really customizable due to it's package management system. But it is more complicated.
There is also Slackware, which is a strange distribution because it doesn't have any dependencies management system, and you have to compile all your
applications "by hand". But it is really stable, and if you don't like systemD it is one of the last distributions which hasn't switched to systemD.
My favorite is Arch, but there are a lot of alternatives, and the best way to know which one to choose is to test :)