@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
Post #3276447
2026-04-29 19:30 UTC
@bookwar@floss.social @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
distribution is a form of organization which allows random people to collaborate more efficiently.
Distros are notorious for being smarter than upstream and breaking stuff (SELinux and hardening of Firefox), fighting against upstreams (Fedora Flatpaks) and using atrocious build systems, despite better solutions existing. I mean GNOME stack in Fedora have to be literally maintained by paid people, because nobody wants to volunteer themselves willingly to bear that torture.
Distros are a cancer that is holding back progress, all that meanwhile constantly saying "we are better than others and know better". And I say it as someone who had the misfortune of talking to Fedora people about Fedora Flatpaks, i.e. the single worst thing that came out of that place. Amount of contempt towards Flathub (and upstreams distributing their own software) was amazing to witness.
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@bookwar@floss.social 2026-04-29 19:42
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I realize you are on a crusade against Fedora. And I am sad that your previous interactions with the project had such an impact. But my intent is not to advertise it. My intent is to explain that FOSS is much more than a pile of source code published in some Git repos. FOSS is people, org structures, policies, processes and politics around them. It is sometimes (often) frustrating, but it is how we solve the problem of a single isolated upstream developer. @vwbusguy@mastodon.online