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If your goal is to learn about Linux, a single manual arch install will teach you more than going through a 100 near identical wizards. And that's before going into actually useful resources like those that prepare you for Linux cert exams.
If your goal is to compare distros, a week is not nearly enough time.
Yeah, I mainly do it because I want to learn more about Linux and see what different distros offers. but yeah you are probably correct that I should just learn single distro properly.
A distro is essentially the package manager, defaults, and release schedule. Sure, some have new ideas (like the immutable ones), but that's the only difference for most of them.
You need to learn Linux properly, then it won't matter what distro you're using.
Yeah, I am trying to learn Linux(also BSDs) by using and tweaking them, I don't know if this is the right way to learn it.
Depends what your goals are.
Gentoo...
Why not Linux From Scratch?
or even LFS
yeah, I have tried Gentoo and it was fun installing it, however I user binary kernel since I didn't have much experience in configuring the Kernel.
You could install any distribution and use distrobox to get the hang of all distros. At the end of the day a distro is just a starting point of a configuration. Once you learn to customize it to your liking other than what Repo and package management you use. Every distro is the same and the community around the distro is more important. At that point distro hopping is not a tech thing at all. But most people distro hop because they thing if I just find the better distro then everything will work but there is no better distro. They can all be configured the same.
Void Linux.
It uses runit, you can also use musl if you like.
It's a simple and efficient distribution that is "its own thing".
kudos and when you stop would love a final post giving your opinion across the board. im lazy and use zorin but honestly may be a bit boring for someone willing to hop every week.
Distros can all be classified into a few different categories
Debian based
RHEL/Fedora based
Arch based
ostree based
obscure distro doing its own thing
Almost all distros use exactly the same software under the hood such as systemd, network manager, Linux and others
I would install virtual manager and run a bunch of stuff. Just make sure you install spice-vdagent and qemu-guest-agent