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  • The three base distros mentioned are ones that most other distros use as their base

    E.g.

    Debian -> Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS!

    Fedora -> Bazzite, Nobara

    Arch -> EndeavourOS, Manjaro, CachyOS

    While you can customize the base distros however you want, think of these derivate distros as various prebuilts.

    Most distros come with a package manager that allows you to download (software) packages from a centralized repository. Similar to say Microsoft store. Ubuntu was dissed for Canonical (the creators of Ubuntu) forcing their own package manager into it, which had various issues, while there were already well established package managers available.

    Desktop Environment (DE) is what you see on your screen. Various elements control how the task bar or app bar behaves or what it looks like, what windows are stylized like, and how they behave etc. For someone coming from Windows, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon DE or any distro with KDE will likely be most familiar experience, while those switching from MacOS, Gnome DE as the Fedora default is very similar.

    Bazzite is a gaming focused distro based on Fedora.

    Any questions remaining?