As the title and the website say, I’m currently making a distro with the goal that you don’t have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.
As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.
If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I’ll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)
I didn’t claim anything is bad, anywhere.
Also I didn’t “try to use Debian in a way it wasn’t inteded to be used”. I am using debian on 90% of my servers/vms/containers to this day. Have been for literally decades. To give a specific example: I was running a nextcloud, which required PHP, and wanted to update that. The newer version reuqired a higher PHP version, because the currently installed PHP version was EoL and not supported anymore (by PHP maintainers or Nextcloud). So updating required removing the debian-provided PHP version and installing one from other sources (external repo or compile from source), which honestly defeats the point of a “stable” distribution if the software provided is EoL, doesn’t it?
And to be clear this is just one example I can specifically remember. The “issues” I encouter when using debian are usually of that general type. And to be clear, that’s mostly the point of using it on a server, where I use it, but even there it sometimes goes a bit too far.
And finally: I was originally arguing the semantics of calling debian stable and arch UNstable, which it is not. It is rolling, it might be bleeding edge. It’s also isn’t the same as having a stable and unstable release branch (within the same distro) when applying the label to the most stable release of different distros.
Again, the point of a stable release model is that its packaged software doesn’t have breaking changes for the lifetime of the release. Install something from those repos and it’s guaranteed to run in the same way for the full lifecycle while still getting minor and security updates. So if the software you’re externally layering on top of that suddenly requires new dependencies that you have to install externally too, and you don’t like that, that’s more a problem based on a misunderstanding of Debian than a problem with Debian.