Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond

Posted Feb 27, 2016 14:52 UTC (Sat) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
In reply to: Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond by khim
Parent article: Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond

> Distributions were born to solve one simple problem: slow internet gave no way to easily download large packages and small HDDs needed shared libraries to save space. That's it.

Nope. What pabs said, really. Distributions do a lot of work so you don't have to.

There's maybe a dozen of packages where my needs are special enough that I'm not getting them from my distro, directly tracking upstream instead.

Some of them are (intended to be) temporary and I'm working towards being able to just use the distro packages. Why? Because tracking those projects takes time. I can only afford that for a small set of packages I care deeply about. Doing it for all the software on even my personal machines is simply not realistic - that'd be a full-time job.

This is what distros provide to you.