Distro Hopping and the Quintessential Existential Crisis

[kalpana]

I recently decided to give Fedora 36 KDE Spin a try.

I "daily drive" Kubuntu, and have for years. But decided to make a drive image of Kubuntu, and load up a non-VM of Fedora KDE Spin like a good ol' fashioned Distro Hopper!

These two distributions are mostly the same as far as the desktop is concerned, of course... but there are a few differences that I noticed.

Fedora KDE is using Wayland, Kubuntu 22.04 is still using K11.
Fedora uses Flatpak's, Kubuntu uses Snaps. There are some serious fundamental differences here.
In order to get most of the software I use, I had to enable the Fedora "Non-Free" repositories, or use FlatPak's.
There are a couple of PPA's I use in Kubuntu and the software is just not available in Fedora. Ubuntu Cleaner is one I can think of off hand.
Fedora takes longer to boot than Kubuntu... Not sure why.

I am starting to believe the people who are saying that there's not much difference between the main distributions... For most people.

But, ultimately, I did reload my Kubuntu image to have my quicker booting and PPA's.

The oi' "Snappers" out there could take a lesson from the "FlatPaks." There doesn't seem to be much of a problem with FlatPaks...
They don't have drive access issues, or missing fonts, and the like. If you didn't know it was a FlatPak, you'd think it was a regular package.

It seems as if there will always be "subtle" differences between Distros. Fedora has multple-input selection. For example: I can set the mouse sensitivity differently on my BlueTooth Trackball, as opposed to my wireless mouse. Subtle, but not a deal breaker.

Are these the things that cause people to Distro-Hop so many times? Always looking for the "perfect" distro?
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