my first thought was literally "this looks cool and useful, i wonder how everybody will shit all over it in the comments" and as usual hn did not disappoint lol
Now just grab Linux Mint or whatever. Use a "real" distro with a community. Install it if you like it.
I love how you can’t get any sense out of them.
“So, you can see that software Y is almost unmaintainable in practice due to no maintainers wanting to work on ancient codebases?”
Yes.
“And you won’t maintain them?”
Yes.
“And you will not pay someone to maintain them for you?”
Yes.
“But you will staunchly fight the suitable FOSS alternative?”
Yes.
“Even if it means a constant relative decline in performance and options, not to mention evermore terrible workarounds?”
Yes.
Makes my head spin.
The first iPhone, running iOS v1, was kinda shit. It's easy to look at what the iPhone is today and laugh at Ballmer, but I don't think what he said was wrong at the time he said it.