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i believe you are just making assumptions here; debian in this context does not count as a "simple system", if anything it's as complex as a distro can be and its packaging approach is a polar opposite of chimera's

i still like debian either way, because it's a nice community with good values/principles that has provided and still provides great value to the ecosystem, but it can also often be very fragile

the "just works" point of chimera stems from how things are built; everything it comes with is made to be "install and go" without having to go extra length to enable and set it up (while still being entirely transparent to the user), while being deterministic (packages in general don't rely on install hooks etc.) to ensure safe upgrades and easy auditing, and all that in a framework of a system that has a fraction of the complexity of a large distro and is maintainable by a small team

we make it consistently clear that it's not a reactionary project (https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq, https://floss.social/@chimera_linux/111553324359284350, etc) and has no hostility to GNU or any of the projects we use alternatives to by default (and anybody displaying such hostility is unwelcome in the community)