Article discussing the phenomenon of atomic distributions and numerous associated risks and perils for the Linux desktop, including lack of productizatiom, market share, problems with package management, software distribution and would-be software stores, commercial versus community model, trust and security, Google model, major usability regressions over the past decade, fresh fragmentation, monetary factors, bad timing and missing bigger picture, repetition of effort, battle of egos, and still more

Alas, just as we’ve reached some small level of stability, some small level of progress, there’s a good chance all of this effort will have been in vain. What do I mean by this? Well, the Linux world is fragmenting once more, on several levels.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    That’s the thing all the distro is is just a a set of default configurations and default applications installed so theoretically anybody can make their own distro to somewhat degree especially if it’s a child distro you can remix Debian 50 different ways and get 50 different distros while doing very little work.