On 8/19/2022 9:18 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 08:20:21PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > > Volunteers cannot be forced to do work, else they are not > > > volunteers. > > > > The fact that Debian is created by volunteers and therefore the chances are > > high that users might run into problems and not get help from the volunteers > > who alone have the power to fix the problems is a fact that Debian users, > > and > > all users of free software, need to keep in mind. > > A danger here is that you write as if this is a particular problem > for Debian, but I think you've merely stated a truism for every > volunteer effort of any kind. > > People do sometimes need reminding that they are relying on a > volunteer effort, however. > > > I am going to try some other projects and find out by experience > > where the consideration for the user has a higher priority than in > > Debian. > > I am not going to tell you that Debian is the best Linux > distribution for you or anyone specific, though you could perhaps > expect responses along those lines given that we're having this > conversation in a Debian space. > > The thing is though, you can experience a problem within one project > that is frustrating and demotivating and so move to another project > that does not have that particular problem, only to later experience > a different problem in the next project that is also frustrating and > demotivating. Only you can decide which one overall suits you best; > what's certain is that nothing is going to be perfect.
Of course. > > If any Linux distribution were asked, "do you consider the user > experience to be a high priority?" they are probably all going to > answer, "yes!" But in reality there will always be some decisions > (or lack of decisions) made where some number of users feel they > were mistreated. > > If you have the time and interest to look at other distributions > it's probably not going to be wasted time, anyway, if only to > compare and contrast. > > Cheers, > Andy > Thanks for the feedback, I do have the time to experiment with other distros and obviously I will use what best serves my goals. Debian still has the advantage that I have been using it for quite a while, have invested much time in tweaking it, and it still works fairly well for me. But at this point, I don't know if I will upgrade to bookworm or move to another distro before bookworm is released. Best regards, Chuck
