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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it just me or is every new distro just a base with a different DE? I started to notice this a few years back but not sure if it was my imagination or something developers starting doing because it was easier to ship the DE as "the OS" than it was to instruct users on how to switch to their DE.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They could be using different package managers or different repos