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by TiredOfLife 18 days ago
CachyOS is not a distro. It's just an opinionated Arch spin
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What makes one a distro and one a spin, flavor, or other made up branding by one of the larger linux vendors?

It's arbitrary. They're all linux distributions delivering distinct OS experiences. The only reason we call one a 'flavor' or 'spin' is because Red Hat and Ubuntu wanted to maintain a core identity with its product line.