This article is written from the perspective of someone working on creating Linux distribution(s). I agree many distributions lost their appeal because now it s

This article is written from the perspective of someone working on creating Linux distribution(s). I agree many distributions lost their appeal because now it seems most people are happy with having two options: Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS. There's less appeal in creating yet another distribution and I think that's a good thing for developers and users alike. My initial impression from the title was that the author would be making the point that no Linux distribution is necessary. Although I can understand that, on servers, developers care less and less about where their apps are running because of containers and other tools, people still do have to select a base Docker imagine... and boom, distribution choice again (unless you're shipping a single static binary, of course). Except for things like Nix and other non-traditional methods of configuration, outside of the main DEB/RPM camps, all other distributions are trying to solve the same problems in slightly different ways... I'd argue the disadvantages of that outweigh the benefits.