I do love Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Arch Linux. I feel I want to create my Linux distro because I want to make it for independent animators, gamers, game devs, filmmakers, programmers, artists, and general users. I don’t know how difficult to build the independent Linux distro or based Linux distro. I think it should be easy to build the Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux distro. I would like to build it on NixOS or Gentoo, but building the independent Linux distro is kinda complicated. Do you guys want a based Linux distro or the independent Linux distro?
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Welcome to the forums @BigTexasTony
Build on an existing distro. Building from scratch means you own the whole thing… repos, release engineering, and security patching yourself. That’s a team’s full-time job, not a first project.
For animators, gamers, devs, filmmakers Ubuntu LTS or Debian is highly recommended. GPU drivers, Steam, Blender, DaVinci, Krita all target Ubuntu/Debian first, and you inherit security updates instead of maintaining them.
Skip NixOS and Gentoo. Gentoo compiles everything from source, slow, not worth it if new. NixOS is powerful but its filesystem layout can cause issues with some 3rd party apps.
What’s your background in Linux? What is your GitHub or similar platform username? Are there any existing projects you have that users can take a look at?
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Welcome to the community @BigTexasTony, thanks for joining us! 
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I don’t know what you mean by my background on Linux. My GitHub username is 2ve. I don’t think I have any existing projects on GitHub. My KittyLinux project is private.
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