How should an IT department choose a standard Linux distribution?
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Supportability
Security
Reliability
Consistency
Supportability is how much additional cost you have for solving the same tasks or problems on that platform. Tooling reduces these costs making it more supportable (if designed right), just like reducing scope reduces these costs.
Security is critical, and you can really shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you are doing, or how the software is structured when using a specific distro. I was surprised to find out dbus-activation is a relatively simple route to get any foreign binary running as root, without many hurdles; systemd has a hard dependency on dbus and dbus-activation.
Reliability is less crashes, and reduction of points of failures. This includes payed support as well. Certain distros while offering support, actually introduce many more additional points of failure in coercive schemes to monetize or collect more information. Repo packages that automatically run a script that fixes a disabled snap and installs the software via snap without notification, rollback, or acknowledgement are examples of this.