Why do we need specific Linux distros?

Question

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I choose DE for myself, the question arose: why do we need kubunts, ksubunts and others? if, as I understand it, any DE rolls onto any. There are so many dopils that speed up the work? no wonder they make bicycles, I guess.

Answer 1

try to put on ubuntu with unity gnome, cut out unity, configure everything, etc. It's not the most pleasant time. Even more fun with KDE...

Answer 2

In general, you are right, you can put anything anywhere, you can even upgrade Ubuntu to Fedora)
But the fact is that it is easier for many to take a distribution kit where, for example, GNOME is initially installed, and there is no Unity.

Answer 3

And you do, for example, from the installed Gentoo Ubuntu. Exactly the same. The answer to your question will appear

Answer 4

Do not forget that many distributions of the same line with different shells differ from each other in various utilities that are developed specifically by their community. But this is far from the very first criterion.
Linux is a very modular system. Most users are, let's say, "clean". For someone coming from Windows in the beginning, this may be hard to understand, but it is based on the principle of shared libraries .. Simply put, various Linux packages do not invent crutches and do not repeat the same code already implemented in another package. All that is done is connecting the necessary functionality from them. This is an extremely powerful mechanism that allows not only to reduce development time, but also to increase the purity and quality of the code (no one has canceled the human factor), speed, performance with a decrease in package size and this is the fact that makes Linux so scalable.
It is precisely because of these features that in order not to pull a bunch of unnecessary libraries clogging the system, users choose a specific ready-made implementation of the distribution kit they need with the shell that they use.