This has been hammered on by very prominent voices a lot. Stop making new "distros". Especially if you just want different defaults. You should be able to declare the defaults and apply them to your base distro, and if you can't there's your problem.

Most distros could be NixOS overlays. Don't like satan's javascript? Try Guix. Bottom line, the farther I get away from binaries discovering their dependencies at runtime, the happier I am.

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bee_rider 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I can’t really imagine what compels those voices—if some group wants to make a distro, the should go for it. Worst case it will just fail.

	▲	positron26 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		And let's also imagine what compels people to recommend enthusiasts onto paths where they will be more successful. Maintaining distros that are not some kind of overlay that can track the underlying base automatically is just asking for more maintenance than people will want to do while also Balkanizing options for users because while overlays can be composed, distro hopping very much does not compose.

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vaylian 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/359/