Please, before I begin, I LOVE Linux operating systems. I've even petitioned our laptop team where I work to research Linux laptops, since our application servers also run Linux. So please don't think I am anti-Linux. I am not. I have Pop OS running on this PC, dual booting with Windows (for gaming).
But here is the problem with open source projects, especially of the "flavor of linux" kind: people.
Simply put people are people and since these are open source projects and little anarchist societies that pull together with a starting goal, very very soon, one year, two years, five years, some major conflict hits and the distro goes *poof*.
Yeah yeah, "well then SPIN YOUR OWN". No. I seriously have a full time job++, I have a family and other responsibilities and I just don't have the extra time to spend on building out my own gentoo or slackware or some other build... and I want support. I want the apps to be updated, the OS to continue to grow and improve... and again, no time.
As an example, two very good distros recently went AWOL: elementaryOS and SolusOS. Both were excellent distros. Both had interesting and "different" features from the mainstream. But in both distros PEOPLE got in the way, resentment and anger built up and soon the lead developers abandoned the projects (more or less).
I will stick to my Windows PC for gaming and my Mac Studio for other stuff.
The hypocrisy of this is I am now following SerpentOS closely...
One can only hold out hope.
