I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

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“To get around this, I would suggest basing the official Linux distribution on Debian but with a few queues from other distros”

“Now there are 15 competing standards”

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“There are 14 competing standards!”

“We should make a new one that has all the benefits of the others, and everyone can use that.”

“There are now 15 competing standards!”

Rinse and repeat.

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I have a solution to this I use. If asked I just tell people to use Kubuntu. You might pick a different distribution, I choose Kubuntu for a variety of reasons.

“What linux should I use?”

“Kubuntu”.

No other options given or discussed.

It’s my “official linux” even though I no longer use it personally.

Now you just have to do the same. Pick your own official linux that’s going to be the only one you tell people to use in real life.

Maybe in a few years they’ll decide to distro hop once they understand more, but right here and now they want one answer.

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This is also the distro I tell others to use, it’s what I started on and I enjoy Linux now.

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If I could only count the number of articles that have made this argument before. Ugh. Nothing new to see here.

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Linux is not an operating system and pretending it is one is counter-productive. Take Ubuntu or Mint or SteamOS or whatever and call that Official Linux™ if you want, I guess. Or, we can actually promote those operating systems in their own right instead of calling them “flavor of Linux”

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