Originally Posted by
Shibblet
I don't think there needs to be as many distributions as there are right now... Many distributions have no real differences between themselves and their "upstream" besides theming and included packages.
And again, just in the Ubuntu category, there are multiple distribution that technically don't have many differences beside DE and Packages. i.e. Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, etc.
So, for that, I am in agreement.
However, the distributions with the largest differences, Like Fedora, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, etc. These distributions offer something different in their inherent design. And without the differences here, we could very much lose the landscape. The more fragmented the branches become (off of the main distributions) the less likely they are to stick around... however, in some cases, this becomes a good thing.
Linux Mint, for example, started as an Ubuntu derivative, which was a branch of Debian... but today, Mint is going their own direction, but still using the Ubuntu Kernel.
So, some "fracturing" works well, others, not so much.
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