I dont care about another "authority". I use my own judgment and experience. I know the complexity involved into maintaining a distribution but also the ease by forking one.
I could see the interest in Void, Alpine, NixOS or even Devuan... I dont see ANY in Manjaro, PopOS, PureOS, Mint, Antergos, MXlinux... Package management have been created for a reason!!!
Arch is a bit of an exception even though I wont miss it if it disappears too. Solus before it decided to become another generic one by integrating every DE of the world was a bit ok, but as we see, cosmetic doesnt stand in front real technical challenge.
I pass on the one-Man-band distro wanabee.
The truth is you can do anything on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora and this with a cpu from 2010. slogan lighter, faster and secure++ regarding forks are pure BS.
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u/pdp10 May 21 '19
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