I was on Fedora for a very long time, and it is still my general workhorse which I use on most of my computers, but in February I switched my main workstation over to Arch Linux, as I was interested in the rolling release model. the Arch Wiki is probably the best Linux documentation on the internet, and I fell in love with the AUR.
As you can see, I use Xfce on my main machine, with GNOME Shell and LXDE deployed on some of my other machines.
And yes, that course does sound awful.
