This is not a Linux issue - wherever you have different options and use cases you'll find different recommendations depending on what people are trying to achieve.
- You should use the oak box set of Forkuntu 12.4, no problems with forks there.
- Yes, but it lacks any spoons
- For spoons there's always Spoontoo.
- But... I want both spoons and forks...
- For that you can always tweak a few dozen unrelated work orders, menus and item descriptions in Sporkian. But that will only work witn Sporkian unstable, and needs a special tablecloth.
- Okay... What about knives?
Either that or well, they'll simply ignore the noise of a user that doesnt give a damn about updating anything - so the user would not receive any potential patch anyways.
If you decide on choosing a specific distro, you should know what you're choosing. If what you are complaining is too much choice, then maybe MSDOS 1.x is the best operating system for you?
The beauty of Linux is customization. If you don't agree with that, then stay on MacOS. No harm done.
But if what you're complaining about is that you lack the skills to understand and investigate - without having paid anyone anything - then honestly, I think you are an ungrateful user that nobody should help out because it's a waste of (everybody's) _free_ time.
Be nice and maintainers will be nice, too. Be cooperative and they'll be cooperative as well.
Indeed. And when that distro is MacOS suddenly HN is up in arms about how "not understanding why developers are chosing it".
And, invariably, for any problem the one true combination is different.