Two main points:

  • no one unified distro to keep things simple (thread OP)

VS

  • people don’t care. Someone else needs to advocate, sell, migrate, and support (medium term) Linux (whichever distro they want) for the intermediate term (few months at least) - thread response).

I think a lot of the 97% desktop market share is like this, instead of the hands on 2-3%.

  • f00f/eris@startrek.website
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    10 months ago

    I don’t think “one unified distro”, or even an “official distro”, is possible without taking critical parts of Linux private and closed-source. As long as the freedom exists people will make their own “versions” of (GNU/)Linux.

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      10 months ago

      I think certified distro would go long way. Say this is what it takes to a certified workstation so that people can do basic things using the same tools and guides.

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        10 months ago

        You’re basically describing the Linux Standard Base, which was abandoned back in 2015 and the way it was handled was somewhat controversial.

        But there is a lot of informal standardization between Linuxes, nonetheless.