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Re:Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more” by diffeomorphism on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:38AM (#21024110)
How is fragmentation a "big problem"? There are like what, four distros?

- Debian and *buntu - Red Hat - Fedora - Suse

All of them use systemd. All use X11 or wayland. All package gnome. All DEs, WMs etc. are available on all these distros.

Smaller distros can reuse whatever is available for that distros, see for example chrome or skype.

Re:Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more” by mruts on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:14AM (#21025321)
What do you mean reuse whatever is available? Non derivative distros are going to be using their own package manager and not just using some prebuilt package for another system.

But regardless, I agree, fragmentation isn't really a problem. It would be very rare indeed for some software to only work on some distro but not another. And if this was the case, you could probably change it with enough work (swap out libc or whatever).

Re:Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more” by diffeomorphism on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:58AM (#21025638)
I mean for example this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=googl...

Google only packages chrome as .deb and .rpm, but you can still get it on other distros anyways.

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Re:Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more” by diffeomorphism on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:53AM (#21024187)
Try actually reading what I wrote and not attacking straw men.