Post #3364294

2026-06-21 04:13 UTC

I just thought that the phrase “the distro you are using doesn’t matter” is used to combat the analysis paralysis that many new users experience. And -to be frank- while Ubuntu and NixOS don’t even remotely resemble each other, I can’t be the only one that feels that most traditional distros do feel kinda same~y.

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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-06-21 04:25

There are lot of people who really believe that, not just an answer help with choice paralysis. I also agree that lot of distributions feel similar. And that is not a coincidence. First most distros follow same rules, often have the same underlying technology or act the same, even if its different. And then desktop environments makes up a lot of how an operating system feels to use, and most distributions default to the same one or two. So no wonder many feel the same, even if their underlying technology would be different. It just depends on what you do. Take X11 and Wayland in example. For most people who just use KDE and Firefox on one distribution with Wayland, will feel the same when using this combo on another distribution with X11.

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