• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Oh god…are we about to enter the era of 5000 different phone distros, that when it comes down to it are really all the same???

    ZorinOS and Mint are basically the same thing. And really so are all the other debian distros.

    There’s like 3 types of linux. Everything else is just an offshoot of an offshoot. Personally I think it’s severely damaged linux’s popularity. And slowed it’s advancements.

    I hope thats not how phones go.

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      18 hours ago

      Unfortunately this is the beauty and the bane of choice and freedom: everyone has it’s own opinion of what is good and what is not, and can easily make it so, fragmenting the offer and confusing the newbie losing it to the less free alternative. Works in Linux, works in politics.

      There is no way to have freedom of choice AND a united front against the alternative.