I love watching Linux distributions battle it out for desktop supremacy.
I find it exciting. And since you are, in all likelihood, reading this on a website called “Linux.com,” my guess is you feel the same way.
One of the things that makes watching that battle so gloriously engaging is that each Linux distro, no matter how unique and special it may be, is made up of 99% of the same stuff – the same code – as all of the other distros.
How crazy is that? Fedora and Debian. Arch and openSUSE. All built from (mostly) the same, pre-built, pieces and parts. Pieces and parts that many of these competing distros contribute to – and collaborate on – in a way that directly benefits even their arch-nemeses. And, yet, each is a unique and interesting beast.