Having this kind of fragmentation isn't really BAD for the whole linux community, as a developer I spend so much of my time in fixing bugs and watching if other distros already fixed it.
I don't like your program/distro? instead of contributing and trying to find some balance between requirements I fork your project.
This fork will spare many developers forces, likely die in a couple of years and every good improvement will be lost forever.
This is a bug in linux, not in microsoft in my opinion.
I can understand debian/ubuntu, mint of me is not an useful distro, since it comes with the same pourpose as ubuntu.
Debian instead wants to be stable and "free", so there is a good reason for leaving it.
Anyway I have to say as a developer I NEVER introduced a delta in packages I maintain, I always try to find a way to include the fix in debian too, and wait for the ubuntu sync.
The problem is that on one side we have upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/ commons/ 1/1b/Linux_ Distribution_ Timeline. svg
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Having this kind of fragmentation isn't really BAD for the whole linux community, as a developer I spend so much of my time in fixing bugs and watching if other distros already fixed it.
I don't like your program/distro? instead of contributing and trying to find some balance between requirements I fork your project.
This fork will spare many developers forces, likely die in a couple of years and every good improvement will be lost forever.
This is a bug in linux, not in microsoft in my opinion.
I can understand debian/ubuntu, mint of me is not an useful distro, since it comes with the same pourpose as ubuntu.
Debian instead wants to be stable and "free", so there is a good reason for leaving it.
Anyway I have to say as a developer I NEVER introduced a delta in packages I maintain, I always try to find a way to include the fix in debian too, and wait for the ubuntu sync.