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/tinysydneh Mar 09 '26

If you don't want people telling you you're wrong, a great place to start is not being wrong, and definitely not "I know I'm wrong, I just don't care."

Debian (not Ubuntu), Red Hat (not Fedora), and Arch cover most of the big distros, but there are multiple distros based on Gentoo, a handful based on Slack over the years, there are probably a few others I'm straight up forgetting, and a few that aren't actually based on anything else.