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Why debian? what puts it above arc or others? serious question btw
Yeah, I got that. But how is Arc, for example, "close to corporations" ?
I expect institutions and corporations to have an IT department that takes care of these things.
You cannot apply a personal user logic to IT infrastructure of organizations. For such an organization Linux distro the users will never deal with the package manager or any directory outside of /home.
i didn't say anything towards Debian being good or bad. I don't know enough about it to make such a judgement. I merely pointed out that ease of maintainability by the end user is not an argument for organizations. As for home use, people who decide to use a Linux distro at home are not the main target here. Again, an organization will make a walled garden for their end users, so similarity ends being a relevant factor past the Desktop GUI. And whether you run Gnome, KDE or a different one does not depend on the distro itself.
Yes, of course Arch. But ypu're still dodging my question. You were saying other distributions were close to Corpos compared to Debian. We weren't talking about the benefits or drawbacks of specific distros
And I want to know why you think something like Arch linux is "close to corporations" in comparison
No, you just refuse to answer a simple question
i read their statement as :
Possible, I still feel like it was used as a sort of USP for Debian and just wanted to know if theres something about other distros (apart from the obvious ones) that makes them in some way corpo controlled
Debian is frankenstein's monster of half-baked things that falls apart and rots. Add to it absolute absence of any leadership and direction, where even smallest decisions take years (mawk/gawk/nawk), shipping broken packages for years, and so on.
Actually you need leadership and direction so you won't end up in current debian situation where they can't decide on anything where there is three suites of helper utils that do same thing but can't actually mandate usage of one. Where apt-get is still shipped ten years after apt becoming default and so on. It's a mess.
So what you're saying is that you don't like having a choice.
No I am saying that there should be sane defaults that are followed.