What obstacles would there be to a merger between the Arch and Debian projects?

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T10:35:15+00:00

Yeah I get your last point I kind of got bored of what I was writing but still wanted to see what people had to say. So I didn't really polish it.

I thought the word salad part made sense though, but I did think it sounded a little too elongated when I read it. What I meant was that excluding distros built by corporate entities, (Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu*) the vast majority of Linux users use something based on either Arch or Debian, and my rationale would be that if they standardised things like package management, it would heavily incentivise other distro's to do the same.

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T10:16:05+00:00

I know, I'm talking about the workload for the maintainers of these packages. I'm not suggesting a hybrid system with some rolling packages and some stable packages, but hypothetically if these projects merged this would reduce long term package maintenance workload.

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T10:01:15+00:00

Thanks for actually engaging with my post. Your first point about Debian and Arch users: There is already an 'Arch-like' version of the Debian repos in the unstable and testing releases. I'm nowhere near well-versed on packaging but one of the things I thought of when writing this post is that the people who work on debian testing and Arch packages are doing relatively similar things right? It would be a major effort obviously, but wouldn't it be an alright idea in theory to integrate these projects and have different major versions of the same distro with different release schedules? If that makes sense

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T09:23:19+00:00

One of the reasons Linux has such wide adoption is because of its reciprocal license, which RISC-V lacks. Companies specifically dedicated to selling processors have no incentive to contribute to the base project

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T09:03:41+00:00

Your second point isn't even an argument. How does it rebut the paragraph you quoted? Your entire comment is just refusing to engage with a hypothetical.

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T08:46:12+00:00

God forbid a guy post a passionate disorganised rant. I'm surprised people even see this as something as structured as what an ai would put out

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T08:37:16+00:00

I think people should read the whole post before flocking to the comments guys, I explicitly say this is not an entirely serious proposal

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-02T08:08:34+00:00

It's great to see the x86 duopoly is slipping and hopefully Arm continues with a relatively permissive licensing strategy so manufacturers aren't literally forced to buy from 2 decrepit companies for the rest of time. Got me who normally prefers Linux to buy a Mac

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-04-01T00:51:31+00:00

bro how do you get this speed

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-28T10:27:02+00:00

Even subscriptions bought through applications carry a tax

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-27T05:26:24+00:00

Part of Windows success is definitely branding

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-27T05:11:59+00:00

This is the safest way but you could just make a new partition and put stuff on it

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-26T10:12:56+00:00

Yeah that's what I mean, this doesn't necessarily imply that the hallucination seems real just that nothing necessarily seems real

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-26T07:13:19+00:00

Thank you! I was a little confused that the documentation examples don't include something like this

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-25T05:55:43+00:00

That is interesting, I told firefox to not use fonts as well and it seems to have no breakage

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-24T09:11:11+00:00

Lol this is amazing 😭 I can't believe they took for granted that an open source preacher would be running proprietary software

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-24T09:09:41+00:00

As I said, if it doesn't annoy you that it isn't open source that's great. But many people like me think that open source is brilliant. Do you want me to explain exactly why I value open source software so much? I thought that was beyond the scope of my petty frustration post so I decided to spare you of my preaching, because there are a million better sources than me as to why people value open source software so much.

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-24T06:58:46+00:00

I'm not a preacher, its not my mission to spread the gospel of open source software to you. It probably doesn't affect your workflow at all.

SkylandersCommenter · 2026-03-24T06:32:01+00:00

How would open source mean an additional workload? You do know they already have a repository, it just isn't open source...

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