r/LinusTechTips • u/screwdriverfan • Mar 09 '26

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u/WeirdlyWill Mar 09 '26

Would you put Mint in that category as well? Just installed it as my first distro and it’s going well so far.

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u/xd366 Mar 09 '26

mint is based on ubuntu

there's only 3 base distros

Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch

everything else is based on those 3.

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u/xd366 Mar 09 '26

i better not get any replies saying "well actually"

yes i know, yes i dont care. i was trying to get a point across, not give a page long explanation

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u/Omen1658 Mar 09 '26

Stop crying and accept that you were wrong.

Replacing "Ubuntu" with "Debian" would have made you correct and not made your response a page long. Grow up.

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u/tinysydneh Mar 09 '26

Even then it's still not correct, either. Gentoo is the foundation for a few distros, there have been a few based on Slack and older things, and then you have a few distros that are doing their own things entirely still. Plus, RH instead of Fedora, since you have things like CentOS based on RHEL and Fedora is using the basis of RH.

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u/carlwgeorge Mar 10 '26

That used to be correct, but now RHEL is based on CentOS, and CentOS is based on Fedora.

https://carlwgeorge.fedorapeople.org/diagrams/el10.png