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You have to be on the inside to understand how things work, so by not using linux, you lose a lot of credibility. Many of the distro off-shoots are because distro maintainers refuse to allow app x in their repository of main software, so someone wants app x, and see a need for others who want app x, so they build their "distro" and make it free for others to improve upon. This is the main reason for all the "distros". A good example of this is ubuntu. A lot of people using debian (which anyone who's used a debian based distro will never go back to an rpm based one, just because of the ease of use of using a debian based system, but thats a post for another topic) wanted xorg over x11, debian stable got released as sarge (which seldomly is released, every other year if your lucky) and didn't have xorg at all, let alone by default, so like me, many of us flocked to ubuntu for xorg, and we found a nice community willing to help each other, and as a complete bonus, a 6 month release cycle. This is why forks happen, not everyones needs are filled by one distro, so rather than a weakness I perceive the multitude of choice in linux a good thing rather than bad.

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