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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-13 8:59 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Most of them aren't serious and should actively be avoided lest you be   
   abandoned by the developers. The more serious ones force changes onto   
   the user like using Snap or Wayland. In the end, it's no better than   
   using a proprietary operating system.   
      
   > And switching between   
   > them is actually pretty easy. We call it “distro-hopping”. It’s a   
   > phenomenon unique to the Linux world.   
      
   It highlights the indecisiveness of open-source users and their lack of   
   loyalty.   
      
   > Like I said, again: Linux is all about choice. If you don’t understand   
   > that, you don’t understand Linux.   
      
   It's definitely about choice, but a lot of the distro-hopping and   
   switching of applications has to do with the fact that users quickly   
   realize that practically every choice demands a set of compromises the   
   user is unwilling to make. In the end, you're hopping until you find a   
   distribution or an application whose compromises are minimal.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
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