OK, except the post indicate building a new garage to get rid of the unused car.
Kind of overkill IMO.

Being mindless about anything has pretty similar results, I don’t see the point of this?
Forget you have a car parked in your garage and it will get dirty over time.
Maybe not the best analogy, but if you don’t give a shit, things tend to fall apart.

Are you saying you don’t know when you install additional packages?
How does that work?

This doesn’t make sense to me.
If you install features over time, it’s because you want to use them, if you want to use them, it’s not bloat.
If it’s to try it, and it’s not for you, why not just remove the package again?

I can’t say for others, but my system definitely does not get bloated over time.
On the contrary, I remove preinstalled features I don’t use, when I get tired of seeing them updating.

But we’re pre-dating the common distro hopping discussions

No we aren’t, Linux fora were full of them even before Ubuntu more than 20 years ago. Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mandrake, Mepis, PCLinux.
Distro hopping was always a thing people debated.

The rest of that sentence is a bit confusing, who are we? And how am I supposed to read minds? And going back was kind of where we started, because you claimed it was a new thing for Debian. Debian was definitely recommended to general users, for many good reasons. Stability and huge repository among them, but also user friendly install procedure, and good package manager, that handled dependencies way better than Suse and Fedora.

Debian was never talked about as a serious contender in distro hopping

Back in 2005 when Ubuntu was all the rage, the first alternative to Ubuntu was almost always Debian. Only later when Mint became a thing, that was also an obvious alternative, because it was similarly focused on being easy to use.

Good summary. 👍

Debian. I do see Debian mentioned now a lot more than it has been in years.

I haven’t noticed much difference, Debian has always been the go to distro if you wanted reliability and repositories that cover almost everything. Debian has always been an excellent choice for productivity. It’s not by accident that Debian for more than 20 years has been the distro with by far the most derivatives.

By that standard Arch is the only distro that has achieved something similar, and it may be somewhat telling that SteamOS switched from Debian based to Arch based. Arch is way smaller in scope, and more nimble and easier to maintain. But AFAIK they do not have the democratic process Debian has, so I’m not sure it can really be called community based distro like Debian. Arch has more of a top leadership.
Debian is probably the most true to the Free and Open Source ideals among the big distros.

To be fair the numbers are from June 1st, and are for the month of May. So a tad newer than you graph that state March as the latest.

The numbers are 3 weeks old, but they are still good. 😋

I used to use AOSP without google apps. But I’m a bit less strict now, after I bricked a phone because I fucked up.

I suppose that would be Android, since that’s the only non systemd OS I use.

We already have more Datacenters than we should have considering the size of our country Including Microsoft.
They like to settle here, because they can get cheap renewable energy, which they then use as part of their advertising propaganda to claim they are working for a greener environment, when in reality it’s Denmark that has made the investments in the infrastructure for it since the 70’s to make it possible.

This is very true, but this time it’s not just Denmark, it many countries in Europe, and it’s also EU itself.
We are just among the first to have decided to begin implementing it.

It’s heise.de not the danish ministry.

Well my brain only working at idle power, when I saw prototype I thought it was something new, not released yet.

This is a 6 year old early protype for the original steam deck.
Saved you a click.

It was taken over buy something called “Muse group”.
They added telemetry, which is actually illegal in EU, unless you warn about it, and then it can only be used if you are over 18.
I think that also makes it against to GPL license.
Then they pulled back, but later tried to do it partially or something I don’t recall.

Clearly Muse Group was a bad fit for a GPL open source project.

https://hackaday.com/2021/05/17/telemetry-debate-rocks-audacity-community-in-open-source-dustup/

Edit PS:
From their homepage:
https://www.audacityteam.org/
I can see that the audacious project remain under Muse Group control. I would look for something else.
Muse group changed the contributor license to take control away from the community, and give it only to themselves.

https://www.techradar.com/news/audacity-alternative-abandoned-after-developer-subjected-to-stalking-and-harassment

Later, Muse Group ruffled feathers with a new Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for Audacity, which contributors were required to sign if they wanted to continue to work on the project. This new agreement also stipulated that Muse Group must be given unrestricted rights to all contributions.

The ONLY reason to do this, is if you plan to use the code in a non GPL compliant context.

Tenacity

Oh, I thought maintenance of tenacity ended, when the original maintainer/developer got harassed and left.

https://www.techradar.com/news/audacity-alternative-abandoned-after-developer-subjected-to-stalking-and-harassment

No they tried it again later.

Has Audacity stopped their shenanigans? Or is it still a thing we should rather avoid?