Every project eventually makes their own package manager. Its pretty insane if you stop and think about how routinely the package manager is re-invented.
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New distros get a lot of crap, but often they are solving a need for someone.
Take Windowmaker Live: ostensibly it's just Debian + Windowmaker. I have seen comments saying why not just install WM on Debian? By asking that question, it's clear the asker hasnt tried recently. There is a lot to configure, and there are lots of usability papercuts.
A custom distro allows someone to fix those problems for themself, and share those fixes with others. It's not fragmentation, it's just FOSS.
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Cybersecurity engineers and pentesters don't need Kali or Parrot. You don't need Proxmox to use LXC and KVM. You don't need OpenMediaVault to have Samba and NFS shares. You don't need Clonezilla to make use of the OCS toolkit. You don't need LMDE to have a Debian OS with Cinnamon and nonfree drivers installed, or Endeavour to have Arch with KDE Plasma.
But it's sure as shit good to have everything packed together and preconfigured by professionals.
Or if not professionals at least someone who knows more about it than yourself.
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ALSO BRING BACK HANNAH MONTANA
I mean Linux wouldn't be as it is actually without Hannah Montana Linux and Justin Bieber Linux
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But what if... I took Debian, and disguised it as my own distro? Ho ho ho! Delightfuly devilish, Seymore!
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FU I won't do what you tell me!
Cat on a table.jpg says:
"I'm going to create a new distro by changing the name of Debian"
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Do you have a minute to talk about GNU Guix?
May I introduce you to left parenthesis and right parenthesis? May I further introduce you to millions of parentheses?
I mean, bait aside, creating a new distro with an existing package manager allows you to set up a different set of default packages and even add your own new/updated ones. That's the value of it there.
Eh I guess, but really just define your own meta packages and use arch π
This should be in c/ControversialOpinions.
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