No problem. The beauty of Linux these days is its wonderful variety. Some people look at all the different distros and get overwhelmed, then say it sucks because of all the "different linuxes" out there. I look at the variety and see the reason I went with Linux in the first place--the ability to choose and customize your computing platform to exactly meet your needs.
Bingo! And if all else fails, you can start from source and make your own distribution.
To me an operating system is a tool, since I mostly just write code, compile and test all I need is the ability to do several things at the same time. Write code, compile, test and browse/search the web. Nice friendly admin tools are kinda important too, but I could get by without them if I had to, I think I still remember how to mount a cdfs or fd0 if not I can google to jar my memory. When I developed mainly in c/c++ I was kinda tied to an OS but now that I'm working mainly with Java the OS is not nearly as important as long as I can get Apache/Tomcat running OK I'm cool.