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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:06:02 +0000, Xavier Jones wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:11:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Linux is all about choice. Who says a distro has to be “popular”?   
   >> Nobody can force users to use a particular distro.   
   >>   
   > Popularity will destroy choice not through "forcing" but through the   
   > phenomenon of "following the leader."   
      
   Being yourself a refugee from proprietary platforms, you may take such a   
   “following the leader” mentality as commonplace where you came from. It   
   doesn’t apply in the Open Source world.   
      
   There are hundreds of Linux distros to choose from. And switching between   
   them is actually pretty easy. We call it “distro-hopping”. It’s a   
   phenomenon unique to the Linux world.   
      
   Like I said, again: Linux is all about choice. If you don’t understand   
   that, you don’t understand Linux.   
      
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