There are many distributions with a decent size community that is Ubuntu with a plain Gnome desktop with fancy settings and wallpapers, and this is the name of "quality" distributions. Two MASSIVE distributions that I call small reskins are Pop!_OS, which of the two I am naming is the most interesting and innovative, and then there is Linux Mint where they are just children who don't want papa Canonical shipping a product they don't 100% agree with. You see massive differences in Fedora to Manjaro, and even Ubuntu to Debian. There are over 2,000 Linux distributions (in current estimations). If we eradicated the slight Ubuntu skins (not counting any remixes and flavors (like Ubuntu Cinnamon, Lubuntu, etc) we would have ~600 distributions of Linux. This doesn't count things in other trees like the rest of the Debian Tree, RHEL/Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Manjaro, Arch, etc in that culling if it did happen. It might not seem like a big issue, but I can safely assert that these microskins that would never even qualify for flavorhood are a major issue. It might not seem like an issue you, but even if we halved our assumption, that is still an incredible amount. This pot might have a lid, but the pot is overflowing in this issue.
I have to agree with you 100%. Just imagine what awesome distributions we would have if all the effort of these 2000 versions had been bundled into 1-2 distributions, they would probably easily be at Windows/macOS level (in the sense of the average computer user, not enthusiasts like us).
But the result we have today probably comes from the very strength of Linux, Open Source.
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There are many distributions with a decent size community that is Ubuntu with a plain Gnome desktop with fancy settings and wallpapers, and this is the name of "quality" distributions. Two MASSIVE distributions that I call small reskins are Pop!_OS, which of the two I am naming is the most interesting and innovative, and then there is Linux Mint where they are just children who don't want papa Canonical shipping a product they don't 100% agree with. You see massive differences in Fedora to Manjaro, and even Ubuntu to Debian. There are over 2,000 Linux distributions (in current estimations). If we eradicated the slight Ubuntu skins (not counting any remixes and flavors (like Ubuntu Cinnamon, Lubuntu, etc) we would have ~600 distributions of Linux. This doesn't count things in other trees like the rest of the Debian Tree, RHEL/Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Manjaro, Arch, etc in that culling if it did happen. It might not seem like a big issue, but I can safely assert that these microskins that would never even qualify for flavorhood are a major issue. It might not seem like an issue you, but even if we halved our assumption, that is still an incredible amount. This pot might have a lid, but the pot is overflowing in this issue.
Ah, okay, now I get your point.
I have to agree with you 100%. Just imagine what awesome distributions we would have if all the effort of these 2000 versions had been bundled into 1-2 distributions, they would probably easily be at Windows/macOS level (in the sense of the average computer user, not enthusiasts like us).
But the result we have today probably comes from the very strength of Linux, Open Source.