I think the problem with that is that the distros are each essentially personal projects. Some individual or team has their vision of what they think Linux should be and make their own effort to make it. There isn’t just 3 big distros because there’s more than 3 teams that want to make their own. And since no one has control over what distro anyone else can make, each person’s only options are to start their own distro, work on someone else’s, both (and more, since there’s no limit on how many distros you can contribute to), or neither.
Though personally, I think more options is good. Just like with the lemmyverse, if admins for one distro make choices you don’t like, you’re not stuck with them because you can either switch distros or start your own fork if you think it was on the right path before that bad choice.
All I can say for sure is that, from my experience, Fedora is ready for the masses (at least the technically competent who are willing to learn, the others are just as lost on windows, outside of their usual activities).
The downvotes might be because it’s not something anyone can do.
Well put.
So if you understand the whole situation like that, it seems that I want to forbid those indie devs producing their own distro. Which is not at all what I want.
I think it would be better, if most of the indie devs would join a bigger movement like debian, kde (or one of the many more), which try to produce solid bases or a distro for the masses, instead of making their own niche product which is only supported for how long they are interested in it.
I think the problem with that is that the distros are each essentially personal projects. Some individual or team has their vision of what they think Linux should be and make their own effort to make it. There isn’t just 3 big distros because there’s more than 3 teams that want to make their own. And since no one has control over what distro anyone else can make, each person’s only options are to start their own distro, work on someone else’s, both (and more, since there’s no limit on how many distros you can contribute to), or neither.
Though personally, I think more options is good. Just like with the lemmyverse, if admins for one distro make choices you don’t like, you’re not stuck with them because you can either switch distros or start your own fork if you think it was on the right path before that bad choice.
All I can say for sure is that, from my experience, Fedora is ready for the masses (at least the technically competent who are willing to learn, the others are just as lost on windows, outside of their usual activities).
The downvotes might be because it’s not something anyone can do.
Well put. So if you understand the whole situation like that, it seems that I want to forbid those indie devs producing their own distro. Which is not at all what I want.
I think it would be better, if most of the indie devs would join a bigger movement like debian, kde (or one of the many more), which try to produce solid bases or a distro for the masses, instead of making their own niche product which is only supported for how long they are interested in it.