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Re: [LUG] Arch Sucks - Was: Blind users

 


On 30 Aug 2013, at 17:33, bad apple wrote:

Debian-derived systems, I'm not quite sure why I'd use them over, well,
just installing Debian. So it's got Enlightenment, Mate, RazorQT, LDXE
and OpenBox DEs available - splendid. That's nearly as many as stock
Debian. And it has wine. Like Debian. Every time I install one of these
Debian spins I'm always impressed for about 5 minutes, and then I find
something that was in Debian but that aren't in the derived version and
find myself thinking "why the hell didn't I just install Debian in the
first place?" Actually, why did the people who made this spin in the
first place just install Debian themselves?

Version 1 syndrome?

It is easy to fork Debian, create some newer packages, and/or run a more lack view of copyright or freedom, and have a distro.

It is slightly more work to maintain it, and no where near as much fun.

So most distros end up trailing behind the Debian they forked from.

Debian tried to help that with PureBlends, not sure how successful it was.

Maybe if Debian had a release which would adopt stuff quicker people might be more motivated to contribute there, but it is a role mostly fulfilled by "testing" . Perhaps if we renamed "testing" as "exciting" people would use it more, and worry less that they don't understand the name, and it wouldn't be any worse than Arch by the sounds of it.
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