I see often people say that the distro you are using doesn’t matter. One can turn any distro into another. And I do not agree with that. If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions? I always said, if distros don’t matter…

  • … why distro hop?
  • … why don’t you use Ubuntu then?
  • … why don’t you recommend Archlinux to a newcomer?
  • … why don’t you use Kali Linux as a server?
  • … why don’t you use Batocera or SteamOS as your daily driver?
  • … why do you trust a community distro more than a corporate distro? (or vice versa)

I don’t think that distros only matter to newcomers. Maybe it matters for experienced users even more.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    There are two reasons why distro choice doesn’t matter.

    1. The majors are mostly fine. Ubuntu (not this one), Mint, Fedora, Arch, and Debian.
    2. They’re going to need to distrohop in the end anyway, and it’s naive to think they’re going to get it right on the first try.