Uh, isn't that the point? (Score 1)

Isn't freedom of choice supposed to be the whole point to Open source software? I always thought that the potpourri of software was a plus. Of course, I understand that the newbie would have trouble with some of this, but I don't want our choices to go away so that we are locked into one format, one way of doing things (ONE TO RULE THEM ALL!) like you-know-who did.