so i just found out about omarchy linux, which is basically arch with hyprland with some preinstalled tools and themes, and now im quesioning if it even counts as a distro, i understand why someone wouldnt want to go through the hassle of installing arch then installing additional tools (especially newcomers) but what really makes it its own distro? for example lubuntu and xubuntu, do they really count as distros seperate from ubuntu? if u were to use xfce or lxqt in debian u would still be using debian either way. u cant say its even about the init system cus u can use openrc or gnome in gentoo but in either case ud still be using gentoo. i understand how the package manager and repos would make a distro a distro, so then what makes endeavor os its own distro if it uses pacman and the same arch repos? anyway im not throwing shade on any distros i think all these projects are amazing, but i just wanna know is a distro a distro when it just has its own sort of community and people? so what do u think guys am i just tweaking or what?
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