> The problem is that as you get deeper into Linux, you become progressively more and more likely to install your own packages from source, and then all of that

> The problem is that as you get deeper into Linux, you become progressively more and more likely to install your own packages from source, and then all of that curation goes out the window. It needn't go out of the window. The key thing is to keep the set of packages on which you deviate small. Then you can curate the exceptions yourself, or a community can form that share the same needs and they can do it. It's when you do throw the curation out of the window, or subscribe to an ecosystem that effectively requires it [that curation be thrown out the window], that the problem arises.