Having hundreds of distros, not all of which work with each other, is probably not helping mainstream adoption
But neither is it really hurting it. Some crude little distribution written in Chinese and catering to people of a Korean cooking club in Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with why Average Joe doesn't want to use Ubuntu or OpenSUSE or Fedora. If this distro had something that would appeal to an extremely large market share, it wouldn't be a small distro.
If one distribution existed, people would just release customized copies anyway. Just go on some warez site and see how many variants they have of Windows XP.
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Having hundreds of distros, not all of which work with each other, is probably not helping mainstream adoption
But neither is it really hurting it. Some crude little distribution written in Chinese and catering to people of a Korean cooking club in Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with why Average Joe doesn't want to use Ubuntu or OpenSUSE or Fedora. If this distro had something that would appeal to an extremely large market share, it wouldn't be a small distro. If one distribution existed, people would just release customized copies anyway. Just go on some warez site and see how many variants they have of Windows XP.