• ravhall@discuss.online
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    1 month ago

    Imagine if all the hours spent on packaging the same software in different ways was spent on a single distribution.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      Imagine how much less would get done overall and how many fewer people would participate if we did not let people work on what they wanted to work on.

      The only choice left would be to contribute or not and more people would choose not to contribute (probably the choice you have made).

    • PushButton@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Evolution happens by iteration. Every iteration hopes to be a little bit better by bringing something a little bit differently.

      F1 cars are a good example of that. Yet, nobody is going to say F1 from the 90’s could compete with today’s version.

      And, anyway, time well spent for someone is always a waste of time for someone else.

      BTW, I want to thank all the Void Linux contributors for that excellent distribution. It has been a while since I changed my main distro.

      I was using Debian for 15 years; but sadly it didn’t evolved much and something new appeared…