I see often people say that the distro you are using doesn’t matter. One can turn any distro into another. And I do not agree with that. If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions? I always said, if distros don’t matter…

• … why distro hop?
• … why don’t you use Ubuntu then?
• … why don’t you recommend Archlinux to a newcomer?
• … why don’t you use Kali Linux as a server?
• … why don’t you use Batocera or SteamOS as your daily driver?
• … why do you trust a community distro more than a corporate distro? (or vice versa)

I don’t think that distros only matter to newcomers. Maybe it matters for experienced users even more.