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It’s all volunteer work, not some corporation with trillions laying around. If you want something easy, use Debian (or ubuntu). They pretty much have everything

It’s all volunteer work, not some corporation with trillions laying around. If you want something easy, use Debian (or ubuntu). They pretty much have everything under the sun. What you want to have (download software from the net and run it) is what most distro have been trying to avoid. Instead, they vet your code, build it, and add it to a reputable repo. Because no one wants to download postgres from some random sites.

gjsman-1000 1y ago
Last time I checked, Ubuntu/Canonical is a multimillion dollar company, Red Hat is a multibillion dollar company, SuSE sold for $2.5B, and The Linux Foundation has over $250M in revenue to spend only 3% on development of Linux specifically. Enough of the BS of "we're just volunteers" - it's fundamentally broken and the powers that be don't care. If multiple multibillion dollar entities who already contribute don't see the Linux desktop as having a future, if Linus Torvalds himself doesn't care enough to push the Foundation on it; honestly, you probably shouldn't care either. From their perspective, it's a toy, that's only maintained, to make it easier to develop the good stuff.
- skydhash 1y ago
  Those companies sell server OS support, not consumer desktop. And Linux is rock solid for that purpose. Desktop Linux is OK. And I think it’s all volunteer work.
  - 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago
    OK at best. Barely functional. Incredibly unstable.
- codeguro 1y ago
  Get over yourself. Linus himself said Linux is just a hobby. It just happened to be the best because of the lack of red tape dragging development down. It got as big as it did BECAUSE it was a volunteer project with the right choice of license and remains the best DESPITE big corps pouring money all around it. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_interested_history_this_is_one_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_i...
8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago
Ubuntu is not perpetually stable. I mean.. I have some old instances running since 2018 or so and they continue to work fine, but I've been blocked from running/updating certain apps. So my choices now are upgrade the OS and risk breaking everything (almost certain) or... Just keep using the old stuff.

gjsman-1000 1y ago

Last time I checked, Ubuntu/Canonical is a multimillion dollar company, Red Hat is a multibillion dollar company, SuSE sold for $2.5B, and The Linux Foundation has over $250M in revenue to spend only 3% on development of Linux specifically. Enough of the BS of "we're just volunteers" - it's fundamentally broken and the powers that be don't care. If multiple multibillion dollar entities who already contribute don't see the Linux desktop as having a future, if Linus Torvalds himself doesn't care enough to push the Foundation on it; honestly, you probably shouldn't care either. From their perspective, it's a toy, that's only maintained, to make it easier to develop the good stuff.

skydhash 1y ago
Those companies sell server OS support, not consumer desktop. And Linux is rock solid for that purpose. Desktop Linux is OK. And I think it’s all volunteer work.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago
  OK at best. Barely functional. Incredibly unstable.
codeguro 1y ago
Get over yourself. Linus himself said Linux is just a hobby. It just happened to be the best because of the lack of red tape dragging development down. It got as big as it did BECAUSE it was a volunteer project with the right choice of license and remains the best DESPITE big corps pouring money all around it. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_interested_history_this_is_one_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_i...

8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago

Ubuntu is not perpetually stable. I mean.. I have some old instances running since 2018 or so and they continue to work fine, but I've been blocked from running/updating certain apps. So my choices now are upgrade the OS and risk breaking everything (almost certain) or... Just keep using the old stuff.