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Asking for clarity since I'm one month into my Linux journey: Are you saying that most of the distros are really just more surface level changes rather than dee
by reginold 5y ago
Asking for clarity since I'm one month into my Linux journey:
Are you saying that most of the distros are really just more surface level changes rather than deep "divisions"? I've been struggling to understand.
- opan 5y agoThey ship different things out of the box but can largely use the same exact software. They may update at different rates and thus have different versions of things. They are not entirely different operating system like Mac OS vs Windows.
- bluGill 5y agoMostly. There are a half dozen different desktops to choose from. Same for ways to package software. Most of what a distribution does is make some choices and configure it. Most distributions learn from each other in some way. Most distributions fix things upstream so that other distributions can take advantage for their useful changes.
- TobTobXX 5y agoMost distributions are derivations and arise because some skilled people wished some core functionality would be different. And other distributions started from scratch, but obviously don't want to do really everything on their own, so they took other software. The result is that a lot of established software is shared.