I'd say the reason for that is marketing, or branding, or positioning the product, which are, as you wrote, essentially Linux distributions. I find that even c

I'd say the reason for that is marketing, or branding, or positioning the product, which are, as you wrote, essentially Linux distributions. I find that even combinations that are supposed to be very similar (Linux kernel, same DE, same repos) can behave differently, and I guess this is because of how the distro maintainers set up the different parts and integrations in the system. So in this way, my MX Linux box is different from my Debian+KDE box.