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.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
    3·
    17 hours ago

    I don’t mind them, except Ubuntu. Broken by default since it started. I don’t know how or why, but it is the most fragile least user friendly one of the bunch.

    • karlhungus@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I am not currently using it but it’s always been fine whenever I have. What’s broken?

      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
        1·
        10 hours ago

        For the last few projects I have been on, it has thrown errors during the install. It usually resolves itself, but the user should never be greeted with “something went wrong” or “error during install”.

        I guess I could download the latest and play with it for 10 minutes and get some specifics.

        • karlhungus@lemmy.ca
          1·
          8 hours ago

          I don’t actually care, but when I have in the past (around 2006 era) it “just worked”, while other distros i was using required more hand holding (gentoo, redhat, slackware). I suspect most distros are just fine now a days (using debian now and it seems just fine).