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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Distros used to be about experimenting with different packaging systems and system managers, but now seems like the packaging systems are mostly the three: Arch, Debian, Red Hat. And the system manager is almost always systemd.

So the only thing to do (beyond better quality control, which takes a lot of constant work) is to make the DE somehow unique.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Repositories and package versioning are also extremely important in ways newbies don't realize yet. There's a significant variety between using Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS or Kali. They are all Debian based using apt but they are all decidedly entirely different systems with completely different purposes and uses.