[Gigachad]

I have reported maybe 20 bugs to distros, I don’t remember a single one receiving any attention before they auto close for being old. Reporting to upstream almost always gets some kind of response and usually a resolution. Fedora was packaging a 5 year old version of LMMS because for some reason upstream decided to label the last 5 years of updates as RC versions despite them being vastly more stable and feature filled than the last "stable". I reported a few of the bugs found in this old LMMS on the redhat bug tracker and no one responded. Upstream had fixed these long ago.

These days I think distros should ship only the core OS components and let tools like flatpak give you user level apps direct from the source. I largely don't care about having the absolute latest version of Gnome or systemd. But I very much do care that all of my applications, especially internet connected ones are. I stopped using distro packaged telegram binaries because it would take a month before they got updated and in that time I'd have to use my phone to view all the unsupported messages sent.

[johnny22]

this is what Fedora Silverblue is like and probably opensuse's MicroOS (i think that's whwat it's called).

[Gigachad]

I had used Silverblue for a little over a year and I think it’s certainly the future of Linux distros. I had a fair bit of difficulty but none of it was intrinsic to the tech and more just 3rd party packages that didn’t quite work properly. I really loved “toolbox” though.