Hi,
I have used different distros over the last years.
Arch, Endeavouros, Cachy, Linux Mint, OpenSuse Tumbleweed, …
What i don’t get is why are there so many different flavours of the same base system? For example CachysOS makes a lot of claims, to be lightning fast, but what is it worth in real life situation? Who proofs that ? Who can proof that it gives more FPS in games? If not why does it exist? What is the purpose of so many basically the slightly different versions?
I don’t know maybe i get the idea of linux, everything is basically the same with a little bit of that and a little bit of there. A suitcase where i can put in the things i need or general things what the system needs to run.
Everyone can create a Linux Distro, so many do. As far as I know, years ago, distros would be more different than they are now. I do believe, most people could just use one of the major base distros. But in the end, all distros have slightly different philosophies and might be run differently and by different people. And even the smaller differences cater to different audiences and make working with a distro out of the box easier.
Did you read the manual on proper replies? (joke)
Yeah, they’re mostly the same, some have some innovative ideas, or a configuration that works best for X purpose.
Some are so bleeding that …well, they bleed.
Some are so long in the tooth, that it seems they’re still running Linux kernel 4 or 5 (like a decade ago)…that’s maybe a little bit too stable?
Someone who has done a comprehensive benchmark, hopefully someone outside of the development team. This actually makes me question if there’s a comprehensive real world benchmark for CachyOS vs. everybody else.
The technical aspects, hardware development, people’s interest in what they want and need, and what you serves you ‘best’ all come into play when making ‘choices’. I have no complaints when it comes to user friendly distro’s . What you use is your own personal preference. It’s the experience you have. . . .it’s all a matter of choice, hardware, needs and wants owning a computer.
If you want to complain about distro’s and the vast variety offered, try installing ‘Freebsd’. . . I did that yesterday just for the fun of it. . . it’s not for the faint at heart. . . I gave up and said to myself thank god for other choices. . . .some things never change. It’s all a matter of what you need and want. . . .
People have run benchmarks that show extremely minor gains in most workloads.
However, for most desktop users, there will be very limited practical gains. I certainly wouldn’t choose a distro solely because it compiled packages at a different optimization level.
On the other hand, it certainly isn’t bad to do that for most packages so if a distro supports that, great.
Many people in the Linux community believe it’s the plethora of too many flavours that keep Linux from a huger market share, i.e. if we had one unified agreed-upon OS we could better compete with MS and Apple.
Could be true who knows. But if the Linux Powers That Be choose something popular like Ubuntu or Mint to hang the Linux name on then no thank you. This boy will have to learn to love BSD
For the same reason that there are different types of cars, wine, clothes, or even bread in the supermarket. People like choice. The problem is that Microsoft have trained their users to know that choice in an OS is not allowed, so they question it when they see it.
I think the idea of One Linux in my opinion kinda ruins the whole point of Linux, since it is supposed to be alternative for MacOS and Windows and should, in my opinion, to have something for everyone.
Although I love Debian probably until the day I die, I completely agree with @drunkenvicar. Especially Ubuntu is on my opinion on its lowest point and I think it unfortunately drags Mint with it to its somewhat evident, although still probably distant, grave.
@drunkenvicar I could agree, but one like MS or MacOS would be horribly for the community and the freedom of Linux, but i could agree on the basic 3 debian, fedora, arch and let’s say a few others make it 10 or 20, but not hundreds, which are currently present. I guess if the focus was just on a few, then the power of open source finally could succeed.
It’s kind of hard to take all your comments and kind of write a resume for myself, but maybe I have to think about it a little longer. Thank you everyone.
To be honest, i am always coming back to endeavouros, it just does what I need.
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