[BirAdam]

By your reasoning of what is or is not a distribution, Ubuntu is not a distribution. After all, it’s just opinionated Debian. The vast majority of distributions are, by your logic, not distributions. I’m okay with this, but that isn’t how the word is commonly used.

[undeveloper]

ubuntu has its own packages from Debian and a different release cycle

[TiredOfLife]

And surprise so does Omarchy