I was amused at the Debian comment about not being transparent.
I will accept that.  I don't use Debian anymore since Crunch Bang has ended but,,,,
Debian is a community run distro.  So is FreeBSD.  So is NetBSD.
So is Gentoo.  So is Void Linux and Arch Linux.  
But of the non-transparent distributions such as OpenBSD which is run by a Benevolent Dictator known as Theo,,,  OR Slackware which is run by the Benevolent Dictator known as Patrick,,,,,  they too make really solid distro's which a great many people love.
But as an aged old man, it does make me smile at the comments of our FOSS Youth who, complain they simply don't like non-transparent governments yet, they stand by their monarch derived OS's.   Not that I'm complaining that your human....