Fragmentation is a GOOD thing for Linux

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00:00 Intro 00:40 Sponsor: Get 100$ free credit for your Linux or gaming server 01:52 Fragmenta-what? 02:51 Fragmentation makes Linux hard to support? 04:50 Fragmentation = waste of time? 07:01 Fragmentation hurts mass market adoption? 08:28 Fragmentation makes our desktops better 10:01 Sponsor: 150€ off your Slimbook Executive Ultrabook 10:28 Support the channel

So let's start with ""Fragmentation makes Linux impossible to support"

That might have been true once. Many different packaging formats, many different distributions, and the way they shipped shared system libraries, which ones they had, which ones they hadn't, the necessity to package for multiple releases of the same distro, it was all a nightmare.

We now have plenty of packaging formats that work on ALL distributions, with one single package per architecture. You don't target Ubuntu version 22.04, for 64 bit x86 CPUs, you target Linux for x86 CPUs. Flatpak, Snap, Appimages: they all allow you to just make one package, that runs on all versions of all distros that share an architecture.

Fragmentation can also mean duplication of efforts, and the implied waste of time that this entails.

Except that here again, it's a generalization that really doesn't apply. Sure, Linux has plenty of "duplicate projects", if you use that word to its loosest sense. GNOME is a duplication of KDE. Pantheon is a duplication of GNOME. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYKcS-GBjD4