Part of the reason I'm on Debian for my daily machine is because the Debian team really seems to make an effort to tread carefully around a lot of that. I'm on

Part of the reason I'm on Debian for my daily machine is because the Debian team really seems to make an effort to tread carefully around a lot of that. I'm on the testing branch even, with KDE, and for the most part things work well. The stable branch would probably be better. I can't agree that the desktop experience has gotten worse in recent years. KDE 4 is a huge improvement, and other distributions and window managers are pretty OK too. But ... yeah. I'm not a big fan of HeisenAudio, and I'm really not looking forward to what seems to be the inevitable switch to systemd. My first experience with systemd, a couple of years ago, was horrible, and I altogether abandoned the distribution I was on at the time and fled to Debian. When Debian switches, I'll try it out again for a little while and then maybe give the BSDs another try for desktop use. Lennart is really not my favorite character in software, but mostly I think he's just a symptom of a growing trend in modern software development that's only starting to make real inroads into operating systems: as long as you can argue that the thing you're building is somehow technically better, and as long as you release frequent updates (and don't forget to blog about it!), then it's totally acceptable to break early, break often, and just when users think it's working for good, break it again.