>there's a million linux distros >ni/g/gers and gNUmales think this is a good NO MOTHERFUCKER, THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING
Why? because every fucking non major distro has a DISGUSTINGLY crappy package manager and support
I can't stress how many times i distrohopped only to find out the [insert current distro] has nearly dead forums, 0 support, empty IRC, a wiki written by an illiterate monkey on meth and a tiny useless package manager outside fucking ubuntu, fedora, mint, debian, manjaro and arch you can consider your distro WASTED EFFORT.
Now imagine if there were 3, maybe 4 distros, one of them was dedicated to minimalismfags, and the rest for normal desktops or servers
instead of every developer feeling like a hipster and wasting his effort making a shit distro and eventually fail his userbase, do you have any idea how good it will be if all of them united to actually make a decent desktop OS?
Linux desktop is a lost cause. Just stop wasting your time and effort and join Windows master race. Your productivity and sanity will thank you.
Jacob Clark
just use Mint you fuck. it just werks.
Sebastian Brown
>muh fragmentation You're a moron. First, what you want is inherently impossible since the profusion of forks of forks come from people scratching their own itch and doing stuff that they want to do. You couldn't force them all into a small number of projects. They wouldn't find it interesting and wouldn't develop anything at all. Your choice isn't between having the open-source developer world spread out between a large number of projects and having that same number of developers concentrated on a few projects, your choice is between having a small number of projects with the developers they have now and nothing else, and having a large number of projects with a larger number of developers, with the 'core' projects having the same number.
Second, all that fragmentation is a GOOD THING. More fragmentation means I can use shit I like and you can use shit you like, instead of us both being forced into one way of doing things. Don't like systemd? Fine, there's others who agree with you and make distros with other init systems. You can use Gnome and I can use Xfce and someone else can use KDE and other people can use MATE or Openbox or i3. I can use Debian because I like Apt and you can use Fedora because you like RPM. etc etc.
Luke Lopez
>You can use Gnome and I can use Xfce and someone else can use KDE and other people can use MATE or Openbox or i3. you don't have to change the entire fucking distro to change a dewm
you probably use a famous distro with a gigantic package manager and 24/7 support and a forum buzzing with users so you never got hit by the reality so you keep peddling this theoretical garbage.
Cameron Miller
This person is correct.
The entire problem with the "if you don't like it, build your own" people is they're autistic libertardian dweebs who wouldn't work together if it meant saving their own testicles. They continue to spin in circles while no viable, user-friendly alternatives to the 2 mainstream spyware/bloatware OS's currently available ever get developed.
Hudson Gray
>eventually fail his userbase the userbase makes the distro faggot > because every fucking non major distro has a DISGUSTINGLY crappy package manager and support than just don't use it no one forces you into anything
Plenty development is put into mint and ubuntu to make them as user friendly as possible. Some people just don't look for user friendly, some people look for more control over an OS or and OS that they themselves could build into sometihng. And perhaps most importanly, the majority of systems that use Linux don't use it for comerical purposes and are specifically designed to do sometihng - therefore needing a specifing distro, a modification of one or something new. 90% of things that work on Linux aren't user orionted and the actual people who use it comercially do because unlike other systems linux is from bottom to the top hihgly customizable. Therefore the only logical thing is that it has so many distros. If Linux wasn't so customizable and didn't have so many distros - the userbase wouldn't use it because in those terms Windows and MacOS are probably better at being static user friendly systems Don't like them ? Don' use them Don't like the fact that there are so many ? Who ever asked for your opinion
>outside fucking ubuntu, fedora, mint, debian, manjaro and arch you can consider your distro WASTED EFFORT. ? just use the main ones then and ignore the rest
Owen James
>the userbase makes the distro faggot Are you taking the piss m8?
