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by ekianjo 388 days ago
> Linux biggest problem as a consumer OS was rarely tech and mostly just the schizoid amount of options, and lack of consensus on what to use.

It's only a problem if you think it is. In practice I use at least 3 or 4 different distros on a daily basis and I never have any issue juggling between them. For most of the typical use cases it does not even matter, and on the desktop side flatpak resolves many issues.
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Ygg2 388 days ago
> It's only a problem if you think it is.

No. It's a problem, if you as distro maker support non-technical consumers as well.

Imagine troubleshooting Windows but you also have to figure out which DE, WM, libraries the user updated and so on.

> desktop side flatpak resolves many issues

You mean AppImage, Snap, etc.

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tuna74 388 days ago
The point of a distro is to select what you support. SteamOS only has one DE etc.
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Ygg2 388 days ago
Except the user-base wants infinite customizability, and users are often to mess with it. And getting the code to just work together nicely is a nightmare, where OS updates can break drivers, forcing you to try to jerry rig a solution that partially works.
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tuna74 387 days ago
You let something like Arch target those users that want infinite customizability. SteamOS certainly does not offer that.

And if there was such a nightmare to create a distro, how come there are so many?

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