Exactly if you just let the distro's run things then everyone is ****ed

Use the distros to put out releases theyre happy with but we live in a digital world nowadays, you can mix off CD or final scratch or Ableton or whatever, download tracks from the internet, publish them on MySpace etc etc

Its more decentralized than it was and it should enable you to do what you want with your techno, whether its hard, minimal disco diva or whatever :)