There are no Linux gatekeepers. There are assholes everywhere, that’s the human condition. I came across these assholes and I learnt that I should take advice and consider it myself.
If you close your brain and listen to random online people without thought, you’ll have a bad time, Linux or no Linux.
This stereotype of people in Linux or open source as assholes is FUD spread by people who have a vested interest in spreading it.
I’ve found people mostly very helpful and courteous.
I have been running sid (unstable) on my desktop since 2013. I’ve had maybe 4 issues in all those years. This is through multiple ram, diak, power supply, motherboard upgrades. It just runs fine.
Existing established open source projects? Basically never.
My own piles of shit with open source licenses? All the time.
Shit like this made me dump Mint more than a decade ago. I’ve been very happy with Debian (Sid).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA
There is no such thing as a visual learner.
I never figured out why, but I couldn’t get any version of suse to work properly on my computers. I’ve been with Debian (sid) for about a decade now, so not the most up to date criticism here.
Do you “see the matrix”?
I’m curious, what’s wrong with webp?
Yeah, it’s one thing to steal from “The Man” and quite another to steal from an individual developer.
“This tale is all of woe!”
I have been using unstable on desktop for at least 15 years. Every time a new stable was released that would cause a month of just staying off updates till things stabilized. Recently it’s not even had that issue.
I’ve had to pin a package or two in that time, but unstable has been rock solid otherwise. I even run it on my server.