Many distros do not provide emacs out of the box.  Something of a slap in
the face, and unexpected.  And annoying.  Various distros handle emacs
differently.

I like the way Gentoo handles emacs, and I may reinstall gentoo in the
future.  Arch worked farily well.  I would prefer to just leave it alone,
pretty much, and tolerate compiling it oneself.

For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for running emacs?

Alan D