On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:09:29 -0400, Calum McConnell
<calumlikesapplepie@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 00:51 +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
"So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons, there's a couple, but the
main
reason is the rolling updates of Arch allows us to have more rapid
development for SteamOS 3.0," says Yang. "We were making a bunch of
updates and changes to specifically make sure that things work well
for
Steam deck, and Arch just ended up being a better choice for them."
Sounds like Debian testing would have worked for them too.
Except testing lacks direct security support, and spends about a quarter
of the time in a feature freeze. It isn't a true rolling release: the
wheels are squares instead of circles.
I think that the experience that Debian has made with Stream is our
classic problem: We try to cater for all, and annoy the people who
want quicker releases. After we have driven away the users who want
quicker releases in the early 2000s (they have moved to Ubuntu or to
the rolling release distributions), we have taken a quicker pace,
driving away the users that want more stability (they have probably
moved to the Red Hat / CentOS world despite them having actually less
stability by defining stability and support time differently than we
do), and still we're too slow for downstream users like Steam.
This is either going to continue, or we finally commit to having more
than one release train, which of course comes with its own set of
issues, the biggest of them being volunteers and personpower.
There is no glory in supporting long support cycles.