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by zodmaner 2539 days ago
> Why other should suffer?

I'm sorry, but what is stopping you or other people from using distros with faster release cycle or rolling release?

If anything, there are so many rolling release distros nowadays, that Debian Stable is a breath of fresh air in the sea of release first, fix later mentality (especially when it comes to desktop environment).

But I digress, in the end just choose the distro that suits your needs and requirements and be happy.

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It's impossible when you just need pick up one distro and get new desktop software as it releases, and it also being supported by commercial vendors.

Amazing example of why linux desktop goes wrong direction is so many distros. When you have many answers – you don't have answer.

Ubuntu studio for artists, Kubuntu for those who like KDE, Debian for thos who don't like updates (._.), gentoo, etc etc.

Why on windows and mac user can compile, and update anything? Just install photoshop (or newer version of gimp that available for majority of users on windows earlier than on linux before snap/appimage) and you get "distro" for artists.

And even snaps/appimages go wrong direction and overthink problem with security and sandboxing — when majority of users just need one runtime to deal with, like in SteamClient.

No one wants download or plug special repo/package for debian or fedora — this is amazing resource waisting! (insane even)