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.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I just don’t really care for the way Cononical does things.

    Garuda at least was trivial to get going. You install it and it has everything you need, then it also has a tool where you can select any other packages you may want. It’s pretty nice. I’ve heard CachyOS is really easy to get going too. You basically don’t need to use the terminal for them if you really don’t want to, but it is significantly easier to do a lot of things with it. If you managed to install Fedora, you’ll be fine with either of these too. They’re no harder than Fedora or Ubuntu except you get the bonus of the Arch Wiki for anything you might need.