Allan Irving allanirving@allanirving.co.uk writes:
What is regarded as the most free linux distro?
How do you measure “most free”? Why must there be a single “most free”? I'd rather look at what the remaining barriers are in a given operating system and address those.
Is there an already existing distro that is in line with the FSF ideals?
The FSF maintains a set of guidelines for an operating system to be considered free URL:https://www.gnu.org/distros/, and there you can find which ones the FSF currently considers to be free.
I use Debian for servers at the moment and I am looking into Debian or Arch as a desktop distro.
The FSF refuses to list Debian because the Debian Project also makes some non-free software available for users (the ‘contrib’ and ‘non-free’ areas, not enabled by default), which is not part of the Debian operating system.
If you leave the repositories at the default Debian settings – that is, only the Debian operating system and not anything outside Debian (only the ‘main’ area of the archive is actually part of Debian) – it is a free software distribution by the Debian Free Software Guidelines.