Also Nixos, when it took an embarrassing amount of time to purge the backdoored xz dependent packages. If there were any problems with Nixos, this would’ve been it.

Which is exactly why you’re free to license your code under GPL. If corpos can use, then so can you.

Well damn, I wouldn’t have expected that average arch users needed to know how to assess pkgbuilds given how enthusiastically arch users have been trying to sell the distro to first time linux users and other newbies.

Is thr solution truly to tell people to read the build instructions and decide if a package is safe? I’m not an arch user, but I’ve used nixos and assessing nixpkg before installation gets old real quick real fast. Somehow I really doubt telling an average user to assessing pkgbuild on their own will be very effective.

My personal rule of thumb is that if it interacts with the OS or filesystem deeply, native is probably better. E.g. IDEs, cli programs, browsers, Steam etc.

Apps that do a simple things are likely to work perfectly fine on flatpak.

But the problem is that there are outliers in each case. You should pick one and be ready to switch if things don’t work properly.

I seem to remember many random projects joining the foundation. Is this fine? Wouldn’t they dilute their capability to manage a whole bunch of unrelated projects?

Dude, OP is looking for a distro to CONTRIBUTE to because he wants to make year of linux desktop a reality. I think he can use CLI just fine. Looking at how stupid people are these days, his prediction is likely also correct.

Sure. I booted ventoy to test distros, but when it came time to install the final distro, I wiped ventoy and reflashed it.

Have you used a different machine? None of your issues are what I experience(on both x11 and waland). My issues on x11 are to do with general lags and unreliable sleep/wake. It’s weird how there’s no consistency, everyone seems to have a different set of issues. If even the issues are different, I wonder how the devs can even fix it.

What exactly isn’t ready? All I know is the lack of trackpad gestures and fractional scaling(even though I don’t use it) in x11. X11 is the one that feels more janky while wayland has been smooth sailing.

I’m even developing a gtk4 program, I assume if there were problems with wayland I’ve would’ve noticed it by now. On the other hand, testing my program on debian 13 with x11 did make the experience a little jankier.

Given such huge differences in reported experiences, I can only assume it’s a difference in hardware compatibility? Are some machines just better in x11 and others in wayland? Is that why everyone has such different experiences?