Am I allowed to top-post myself :-) If we want to make comparisons, why not talk about the BSD flavors? Or Slackware? Those are more apples-to-apples comparison.
On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 5:03 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 2:44 PM Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:11:05PM +0000, piorunz wrote: >> > >> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Web-Browser-Packages-Debian >> > >> > :( >> > >> > -- >> > With kindest regards, Piotr. >> > >> > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ >> > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system >> > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ >> > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ >> >> Yes: not great but also not informed. We do package the latest versions as >> we can - the latest dependency on Rust is a problem and the point about >> needing to build toolchains is very valid. >> >> Too many comments there are just Debian-bashing with no real >> understanding. >> >> The one thing that would be good would be a backport of the mesa-utils to >> Bullseye as that would also solve problems with Debian and GUI apps under >> WSL2 and Windows :) >> > > And there's an even better example than the one I mentioned. But none of > them are negatives on Debian or its maintainers. Who could have predicted > the constant churn in linux GUI and graphics and X-Windows since, say, 1996 > when I first started-up twm on a German distro's real MIT X-Windows at > home. Just like on high end Unix workstations in office and lab. > That churn is all across Linux, not Debian. > > Debian tries to cover every base there. And it simply isn't humanly > possible. But the maintainers march forward, covering as much ground as > they can. > > > All the very best, as ever, >> >> Andy Cater >> >>
