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Discussion on: The Argument "Distribution Doesn't Matter" Still is Idiotic.

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Primož Ajdišek

sorry but i gotta disagree no matter how you look at it distributions in broad scheme of thing dont matter. While yes there are few very speicfic examples of this not being true these are small they dont matter a lot.
Yes distributions are stating places at best but nothing more.
my system will look, behave and be usable the same way with few very specific exceptions (like packagemanagers) no matter what distro i run whether that is ubuntu arch fedora gentoo or any of the distributions based on them. that is because they use different Base distributions which are only distributions that actualy matter. and even then they matter as a starting point and in very specific ways.

i can make rolling release model environment for myself out of ubuntu or i can make myself a LTS environment out of Arch all based how much packages i make and compile myself and how offen.

And the distributions dont matter argument is mainly and mostly targeted at people who change their distro because 1 thing doesnt work the way they want it and they then go from ubuntu to ubuntu mate for example or from debian to q4os sorry.