This is one of the most mentioned points when talking about GNU
I have read there several times: What if instead of so many hundreds of distros they all united efforts and made just one?
It is a good idea to imagine what a world would be like where there is only one Linux distribution, or considering other kernels:
GNU, an operating system created by Richard Stallman available in three cores: BSD; Hurd y Linux
- Build it from scratch, download version with emerge (the one from Gentoo), mixed version compiled and precompiled (Sabayon). Precompiled version with scripts, precompiled version with console wizard, version with graphical wizard.
- Choose your installer: And many appear.
- Choose Repositories: Stable Free, Actual Free, Very actual free, Testing Free, Testing 2 Free, Unstable Free, Very Unstable Free, Experimental Free, and those not Free. PUre KDE, pure GTK2, pure GTK, non mulitlib, multilib….
- User repositories.
- Choose any version of the programs: Student, Server, Gamer ...
- Choose a graphic server: Xorg, Wayland, Mir
- Choose a graphical interface: Gnome, Unity, Mate, Cinnamon, LXDE, XFCE,
- Choose some artwork, green mint, humanity, kilimanjaro, pears and apples, camaleón verde ...
- Choose your tools: Yast, apt-get, emerge, entropy, yaourt, yum, pacman ...
Looking at it from that point where everything was a single system, progress would be made very fast, because the hierarchical structure would be very clear. And for the common user who enters the page of that hypothetical distro and finds 20 ways to install it, he will think that he will never be able to use it.
In addition, you will feel discriminated against because the community will be in difficulty classes. Something similar may happen now, but with different systems. You identify with your distro.
In addition, Bill Gates would arrive and begin to sue, patent for the off button, patents for monkey, patent for the taskbar.
He would start using his money to remove important people from Linux and make them part of his company. Projects would begin to die. Because for one they all carry it now.
Many others would not like to be subjected to so many people and they would be more independent, and they would leave Linux ... And it would begin to destroy this very organized system.
The idea of ​​a single system seems to me the most ideal, but it is a great utopia. There would have to be no freedom for Linux to be like this. Freedom knows no limits and the number of Linux distributions is a great example of cooperation and freedom to the world.
Also the first 50 distros seem very good to me. I like that in GNU / Linux people are recognized for their ways of thinking and not as consumers of a marketing product who have to adapt. Perhaps some prefer to adapt to what they impose.
Your point of view would be very interesting.