I live in a country with mandatory conscription.

If the time served is reasonable and the army is organized enough to actually train you and take advantage of your skills, yes i'm all for it.

If not, it just an excuse for permanent stuff to boss around people and make them do meaningless work to look busy.

I use arch btw.

Gives me the flexibility to do what I want and contrary to the internet I haven't managed to break everything. I managed to break Ubuntu through