- Market share is not the most important metric, resilience matters and Linux distributions have only gained in acceptance over years

- People have a fear or even aversion toward experiments since it needs effort, but some folks are simply geeks - they will keep trying and more power to them

- Some of these experiments, historically, have brought some of the best open innovations in the industry and moved even closed-source rooted companies to change mindset

- Fragmentation is a marketing problem IMHO and I would like to see some ground between that and a consolidated Linux distro but it will not happen easily and that is OK

- The enthusiasts like us do not need every other mainstream user on Linux but I am sure we would love that (I am a Linux user for 18 years)

- This community is happy learning and trying new things, it is joyful

So, more power to experimentors. The value of this community is in choice in a market that is dominated by the Apples and Microsofts who do not care about choice.

I do get where you're coming from; this project just highlighted some personal frustrations I have with Desktop Linux is.

I really wish we could have an open-source OS that was reliable and user-friendly for consumers (especially given how user-hostile Windows has become in the last 5 years), while similarly being non-burdensome for devs to deploy software to (which, to be fair, has improved a lot recently thanks to AppImageKit et al).

Linux does need more package managers. Why? Because I like trying out new package managers and they don't harm people since they're not required to try or use them.

>they don't harm people since they're not required to try or use them

For users, no. For devs, there absolutely is pressure to support and maintain multiple distribution methods for Linux users.

I don't think that's true. Usually upstream devs and distro maintainers are different people. If I ever see packaging maintained by upstream, it's more often than not just for a single distro (most commonly Flatpak, then Ubuntu).

That's a good point.

This doesn't introduce a new package manager to the world