alt Hacker NewsLetting Claude summarize my thoughts for me on this:
Genuine respect to anyone doing thankless package maintenance for free. But maybe the real problem isn't that Debian volunteers go quiet — it's that we have 100 distros on DistroWatch and half of them are the same thing with a different wallpaper?
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ThePowerOfFuet • today at 4:34 AM
>Letting Claude summarize my thoughts for me on this:
Please don't. If you want to contribute, contribute your own words.
It’s two sentences for goodness sake. Why on earth should anyone spend their time reading your “thoughts” when you don’t think it’s worth spending your time to write them?
More substantively, I don’t believe it is true, but hypothetically why would “the real” problem be having 100 distros on distrowatch with little to choose between them? The benefit of open source for the individual is supposed to be the opportunity to learn by doing and to have the freedom to do things however you want, and the benefit to the community is this extreme Darwinian process where lots of crazy people try all sorts of things and the community as a whole picks results they like. All of these benefits arise precisely because there are a lot of projects, many of which don’t achieve mass adoption.