I think the naming is a mess, and most things can be done post-first-boot, aka “onboarding”.
I would rather understand “uBlue GNOME” and “uBlue KDE Workstation” than “Aurora DX”. What’s DX? DirectX? Comes with it?
This is my approach:
uBlue GNOME Workstation
│ │ │
│ │ └─► Edition
│ │
│ └─► Desktop manager
│
└─► Distribution name
What editions are? Well, you have:
- Desktop: The close-to-vanilla experience, no fancy apps but enough to work anywhere.
- Workstation: The developer experience, aka “dx”, with some additional tools.
- Gaming: What’s known as Bazzite.
For example:
- uBlue KDE Gaming
- uBlue GNOME Workstation
- uBlue GNOME Desktop
Problem solved.