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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by XorNot on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:09PM (#13379768)
My problem with desktop Linux is actually development - it seems really hard to get patches and fixes into upstreams or deploy them stably (i.e. not fighting apt overwriting your custom builds, etc.)

There's scope somewhere in there for Canonical to improve Launchpad so the experience of fixing issues is more streamlined.

Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by pareidolia on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:31AM (#13382022)
This use case is filled for me by Gentoo's portage (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay)

Currently I'm looking into what Guix and Nix can offer me wrt. custom packages.