How does the user culture of Linux distributions vary?
 

It seems learning would be a challenge without collaboration, culture a significant part.

Darn.
What do you want to know?

I'm guessing what you really means is why people pick the distro that they use - comes down to preferences of the individual, & the tasks needed to be undertaken.

I've known many persons who have used different flavors of Linux. I currently have three different Linuxes installed to bare metal that I use daily, as well as several VMs I like to play with.

I frankly think the over-riding culture, to the extent there is one, is the culture of Linux-users. I do not think there are any *strong* subcultural differences associated with the various distros.

Just my two cents.

I beg to differ. Slackware has a very strong user culture associated with it, and I think Arch does too. I briefly used Arch some years ago, and one reason why I dropped it was because there was such a strong emphasis on doing things "The Arch Way" when I preferred to do it my way. I think Ubuntu has a culture too, not one I much like.

Definitely true about Arch, at least if you go by the official Arch forums. Arch users, as an overall, I think don't have that culture, but the ones from the official forums do tend to be very arrogant, unhelpful, and utterly unfreindly. They don't know how to help anyone except to say RTFM, and will ban users for asking a question twice. Thoroughly despicable culture there, at least when last I left (it's been a while, I admit).

Endless reasons to pick a distro. For me it's about not having to worry about reliability. Debian is where I'm happy and can trust it. I'm looking into Slackware for continuing my dev learning stuff but am still on Debian. I flirt with Ubuntu because while I know not everyone likes the idea of a corporate entity behind something it just makes me more comfortable. I don't know why. It doesn't quite have the reliability of Debian but it's the same underlying general system so my knowledge easily translates.