Imagine if this was copyrighted, now imagine a million things even more trivial than this were copyrighted. That is the current state of affairs with copyrights and patents in tech
It used to be that only the telecoms and tech companies were consolidated enough to pricefix, now every sector is, and the economy is spiraling downward at record pace.
If you're new to Linux, I would reccomend fedora if you don't want to have to fuck with anything, but if you work in IT, you will inevitably want to fuck with stuff more, and arch is great for learning
The government is 100k in debt on my behalf