they did mention, that were shying away from debian because old software, but still choose pop os (follows the 2 year lts cycle of ubuntu, though the kernel is more up to date)

in the end, elijah (one of the 3 are partaking on the challenge, it isn't just linus) happened to choose a fedora based distro and had like 0 issues, it is almost like they should have had choosen fedora