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Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros • The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Variety is good to a point. Too many alternatives and all you get is a bunch of under-resourced and unpolished results.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I disagree.

This assumes that progress on one distro doesn't lead to progress on others.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

There is a difference between feature development and distro maintenance/packaging.

Feature development is done upstream and does flow down to others.

Distro maintenance and packaging is downstream, and almost never provides value to other distros. It usually doesn't even provide value to the next release. Distro maintenance is a hard, thankless Sisyphean task.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You think there is a dearth of software engineers out there who can't spend time on something cool like a linux distro?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, yeah. Its pretty well established that there is fairly limited resources in open source. Loads of software engineers, very few contributors.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe because of projects that aren't interested in the opinions of distro maintainers, let alone individual contributors.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

We can try to lower the barrier of entry. But nowadays open source maintainers have to actually limit controbutions due to a significant increase in supply chain attacks and generally untrustworthy code contributions.