t’s not made by one single entity, but instead assembled from various projects runs by different people and companies.
Yes, that’s my point, that’s why we have a fucktastically fragmented ecosystem where 95% of the time, any forum answer to a problem you are having is highly distro dependent and will not work anywhere else.
How are you going to propose to unify all those diversities?
Why is it my fucking job? All I want is an OS where I can do what I want to do without spending 3 weeks getting a fuckdamn scanner driver to work. The linux community needs to collectively realize that charging in 30,000 different directions at once is incredibly harmful to any form of standardization.
Rallying everyone behind a single company like Red Hat?
Now you are just strawmanning
The ALREADY EXISTING UNIFYING FORCE should be: Making proprietary, closed source OSs obsolete.
You can’t do that until you have a product that meets needs better than closed source, and that will never happen when 75% of the collective coding effort is going into ‘our unique and different flavor of doing what everyone else is doing already’
On the OTHER hand, if even only 20% linux dev worked on a single, comprehensive, user friendly and functional distro, can you imagine how quickly that would have killed windows?
having multiple distros competing on features is the best things that can happen to us.
So you think it’s wise to dilute all those human work hours on thousands of effectively similar but functionally different distros that will fall out of style and use as time goes on?
Imagine what would happen if there is only one distro and it starts to get shitty like what windows is doing right now.
That’s why it is critical to have a fucktonne of people working on the project that are actively interested in preventing enshittification. On a small dev team they can just collectively decide to go against the user’s best interest. With a massive dev pool this wouldn’t happen as literally no unilateral action could happen.
Look, I get biology, I know why you think diverse OS ecosystems are great, but the fact you and so many other proponents of this mess we call modern linux are missing is that such diversity drastically reduces the usefulness of historic forum support posts.
Think about cell phone chargers. Nowadays nearly everyone has a single standard they follow, USB C. It’s great, I can charge pretty much any device from pretty much any USB C charger.
Do you remember what it was like before that? Having a drawer full of different stupidly designed charger jacks that couldn’t be used for anything but the device it was manufactured for?
Yeah that’s what linux distros are like now. A fucktonne of practically identical but functionally different operating systems with near zero assurances of interoperability or even software compatibility.
AND the devs aren’t even all that good at adopting other distro’s ‘successes’ so the biggest advantage of a diverse OS ecosystem is lost.
Face it, most distro creators just want the prestige of their name being attached to the project, and really aren’t all that interested in making something useful to the wider world.
GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The irony of the dude failing to see the point behind decentralized distros when commenting on Lemmy, in the Fediverse. Why is he not on Reddit?