No relation to the sports channel.
Don’t worry too much about the duplicated effort of different projects implementing the same standard on their own. It’s good to have lots of implementations of a standard. That’s what makes it a standard rather than just some code we all depend on.
Ah. By “advanced” you mean “stone knives and bearskins”. Got it.
When I say “advanced” I mean more like “taking advantage of lots of good work that others have already done.”
What do you mean by “advanced”?
I’ve been using Linux on-and-off since before kernel version 1.0, and I use a distro (Pop!_OS) with a reputation for being newbie-friendly and just working out-of-the-box.
This is what Debian is for.