I’ve been using linux desktop for a year or so now. One noteable thing i keep seeing is that one person will say I dont like XYZ distrobution because of its base. But I am still a little unsure what is meant by it. I am assuming the main difference between each base is the choice of package management(?). But what other factors/aspects that are important for the average user to know about each ‘base’? This is probably quite a broad question to a rather technical answer, but appriciate any answers, and i’ll try my best to understand and read up :)
A distribution is basically just what packages come pre-installed. This can have a big impact of course since it can change what package manager is used, the C libraries, and a lot of default system configuration. But the underlying Linux kernel and GNU userland are going to be basically the same across all GNU/Linux distros