Will you dispel my stereotypes about ubuntu, linux mint?

Question

linux

Hello comrades!
So, I did not use the OS data much. But xs why such a stereotype arose that these things are for beginners, like Windows, and supposedly they don’t do anything normal, I mean, they don’t contain any servers on them.
There is also a stereotype that red hat is the coolest of linux, and freebsd is even cooler, but it is only for the elite who think in machine code.
Can you dispel or confirm this image?

Answer 1

Because that's how they are positioned. There are a lot of distributions and you need to somehow stand out, so the "humanization" of Linux begins, which ultimately leads to the fact that a person becomes a kind of "under-Linuxoid", that is, a person who is able to do something only through Bubunt's gui, and when he is faced with the need to work with the console, he feels no better than his fellow "under-windows" found himself in front of the command line.
In fact, these are all stereotypes. Both bubunta and mint can be used exactly as you want - if you know what to do and how to do it. And the servers are kept on them and all that. This is the same linux after all :)
About the coolness of the hat.
Hat - corporate distribution. And its main goal is to make it work. And he achieves this goal. CentOS, its community mirror, takes off quickly, works well, updates on el6 are still being released, despite the 2.6.32 bucket :) But - I repeat - this is a corporate distribution. That is, there are no new programs. There is nothing about games and multimedia, and nothing about entertainment in general. This is a harsh set of working tools :) It is not suitable for the home.
About the "supercoolness" of FreeBSD.
As someone who worked on FreeBSD from 1997 to 2013 - I can say for sure - it's all crap. Yes, FreeBSD is not Linux at all. Yes, there is a different bucket, there is a different network stack, there is a different firewall, everything is different there. But "different" does not mean "better". The loss of community is the biggest loss, and FreeBSD's community, if not shrinking, at least not growing.
Why?
Problems with hardware, that is, with firewood
Compatibility problems, when programs running in Linux creak and are barely transported to FreeBSD
Problems with developers - after all, the bucket code, firewood, specific things need to be written by someone!
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in a word, everything is the same that once killed one of the most wonderful, beautiful and very popular OS - OS / 2 ...

Answer 2

Windows type Mr.

Perhaps I will dispel this stereotype better - Windows is not a g-tso, but a tool. Just like ubuntu, mint and everything else. Tools for specific tasks.