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@ruhe
No, not really. The only real distinction between distributions is the packages that come installed, the package manager, some system architecture, and a couple config settings. There are some more things, but none rigidly affect the graphical user interface.
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
People talk about how the use of Linux as a desktop requires an inordinate amount of time, as if that's a unique problem in Linux. There is no such thing as an operating system that I don't spend weeks and months tweaking to make my own.
The difference is that Linux doesn't resist me like other OSes.
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