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There are too many distros. Even the Gnome/KDE split has been unproductive. Desktop linux would have done better with more resources polishing a single product
by dehrmann 2y ago
There are too many distros. Even the Gnome/KDE split has been unproductive. Desktop linux would have done better with more resources polishing a single product rather than making 20 half-baked products.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoIt doesn't really matter how many distros there are. If you're a new user, just use Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoIt does if every comment saying "Just use" has a different arcane incantation after it, and three comments under it saying why that specific version sucks and you should actually use something else.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThey don't though. The recommendations for new users are nearly universally to use Debian or one of its most popular derivatives like Ubuntu or Mint, which are all very similar to one another and share the large majority of their code. It's like saying Windows has too many versions because there is Home/Pro/Education/Enterprise and then 23H2 vs. 24H2 etc. There is barely any difference between them. The distro wars are a bunch of programmers arguing about which one has the best toys for power users. Any of them will run a web browser and the boring popular Debian Stable or LTS derivatives are the ones least likely to deliver unscheduled maintenance as a result of an update.