Dig through the annals of Linux journalism and you’ll find a surprising amount of coverage of some pretty obscure distros. Flashy new distros like Elementary OS and Solus garner attention for their slick interfaces, and anything shipping with a MATE desktop gets coverage by simple virtue of using MATE.
Thanks to television shows like Mr Robot, I fully expect coverage of even Kali Linux to be on the uptick soon.
In all that coverage, though, there’s one very widely used distro that’s almost totally ignored: Arch Linux.