Distrowatch popularity is about as meaningless as rlinux ' supposed commitment to Free Software . This is the number of page views on distrowatch itself , nothing more . To people who say that Gentoo and FreeBSD are losing ground . I don ' t think the kind of people who use either spend their time browsing distrowatch . I use Gentoo and I find all articles there to be profound garbage . Most news articles and reviews are about the OoTB experience of distributions ', not exactly the stuff that turns Gentoo users ' pussy wet . <| sep |> Insurance companies aren ' t in the business of insuring each individual on their own merits . It ' s impractical to do so especially with new drivers , who have no historical record of good behaviour to fall back on . Both you and your brother are being assessed as having the same initial risk as your respective peers . As your brother ages , and as his driving record grows , he will move from a highrisk category to lowerrisk categories if he drives well and avoids collisions , and into higherrisk categories if he wrecks his car , pulls DUIs , or mows down pedestrians .