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[–] traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they're still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I don't disagree, but at the same time it's a choice the community has taken that completely walls off a large population of potential users.

as someone else said though, there are other distros based on Debian that attempt to rectify that.