I looked behind the scenes quite a bit in Debian and what you say mirrors what I saw. The project is very political and does suffer from a serious lack of man-(and woman-)power in many areas. If you do want to help, you’re almost immediately hampered by the community’s Byzantine structure.

If that puts you off, Arch is a more dynamic project that’s easier to get into as a maintainer. But it’s also organized with a more hierarchical and less democratic structure.

Additionally, you’ll find the issues Debian has all over the FOSS world (The Linux kernel is especially bad). And if you work in corporate IT like I do, you’ll soon notice that proprietary software organisations are no better. There’s software many people depend on maintained by a single overworked and struggling person everywhere you look. Yet it still works somehow. Cause wherever there is demand, a solution is found. And Debian at least has a long-established structure with the goal of finding that solution, even though it’s antiquated.

Tumbleweed includes the YaST package manager with all the repository priority settings that make sense in Leap, but the TW documentation tells you not to use it.
You can run zypper up which is a standard updating method in Leap, but the TW documentation tells you not to do that. More than half the zypper options make no sense in TW.
That’s the stuff I mean by “derivative”. They built on a Leap base and modified it into a rolling release.
If it was truly designed as a new, independent rolling release distro, they’d have taken those things out, packaged a different version of zypper or at least a different manpage.

Debian. I run Stable on servers and Unstable on desktops.
Although I do think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch are actually better in many aspects, I find Tumbleweed too rough around the edges (it’s a derivative of Leap and that shows). And I just can’t be bothered to install and configure Arch anymore. Fedora and Ubuntu are too buggy on average, Mint is too “stable” for a desktop and I don’t use all the helpers that make it newbie-friendly. Slackware suffers from issues that were solved in the Linux world decades ago, and I dislike derivative distros on principle.

I’ve probably tried around 30-40 distros and I always return to Debian.

Der Originalauthor dieser Komiks versteckt dahinter übrigens Witze auf Kosten von Minderheiten. Auch die werden dadurch nicht besser.

So the servers will be shut down in about a week.

When it crashes down on earth and ends civilization:
“HULLOW Everyone!”

         Linux corrupted.   
Windows update failed and crashed.  
     🍂 My computer died. 🍂

Meeting my wife.
Before: Living in a cluttered room in a shared apartment, unemployed, drinking heavily, no purpose or direction in life.
After: Living in a house with big garden, dream job, sober, volunteering in my free time, 2 cats, planning children.

I’ve literally never used the headphone jack on a phone in 10 years.
And I wonder how many would still want it back if they realized the phones then were bricked after getting submerged in water like they used to.

I’ve used Linux for 20 years now, and yes the experience was similar to back then.
But back then, there wasn’t a better FOSS option. Now there’s modern Linux.
Don’t get me wrong, I think BSD is a great system. It’s just not the right OS for a new-ish convertible laptop.

I tried FreeBSD on a laptop.
It spammed error message all over the installer’s TUI until I disabled my fingerprint reader in BIOS.
Then I had to patch and recompile the kernel to get it to talk to my laptop’s battery sensor.
Then there were half a dozen other issues I solved one by one, like getting the touchpad and the camera to work, and auto-detecting my networked printer/scanner.
Then I read up on why WiFi is so unbearably slow, and the solution was to pass-through a WiFi driver from inside a Linux VM.

I didn’t actually notice any end-user advantage of having a “fully integrated system” either, so I gave up and went back to Linux.

No, the ones who use Linux don’t go outside.

Slackware. Turns out dependency resolution isn’t really an issue at all.
The package manager doesn’t need to do it cause it’s done by the distro’s maintainer.
Also, how easy it was to add FlatPak support.

Fun fact: The right picture is actually from Detroit.

Wie geil es wäre wenn die Stadt einfach drumherum gewachsen wäre! Dann könnte man die Pyramiden innen ausbauen und als Luxushotels nutzen. Außen entsprechend dekoriert mit Neon-Reklame und so nem Zehn Millionen Lux Flaklicht das in den Himmel strahlt. Wie bei den Originalen in Vegas.

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Miezen fauchen mich an, Schnecken bin ich egal, und Hasen laufen vor mir weg.

I’m guessing they just defined the standard for any round fired by a human-portable rifle, without worrying about whether it’s possible to meet the standard.