Why don't people build their own variations of distros?

>>57522855
>Why don't people build their own variations of distros?
it's a ton of work for very little purpose. You try keeping up with new releases, security bulletins, relations with upstream, compatibility, and bugs for a few thousand packages.

People do it regardless though. Look at Mint. It's a poorly-run distro that's essentially just a broken Ubuntu with a different DE. They shouldn't run a distro, they should be a DE project.

they do.

look at waterfox, cyberfox, palemoon, even just build configs like tete's atelier: http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html

it is a lot of work to do it and to maintain it if you significantly fork from central trunk, though

>Why don't people build their own variations of distros?

Because we use our computer to do our work, not to have our computer be our work like you aspie-asshats do

>Why don't people build their own Firefox?

Because that's retarded

>>57522855
that's what everyone does

do you install your os and just do nothing at all?
you add/remove no software?
you don't configure anything?

the only difference between your specific, customized setup and distros you find for download is that you haven't 'released' yours for others to download

>>57522855
Gentoo is a meta distro, it's made so that you can have any environment you want. It has dpkg, apt-get, pacman etc. in its official repo.

>>57522855
just install solus

dont waste your time

>>57522855
> Why don't people build their own variations of distros?
They do.

You understand Gentoo, Slackware and such distros are even designed entirely for people to do this as end users?

> Why don't people build their own firefox?
Again, they do. But of course you probably want to have patches or something before it actually matters.

> add and remove to suit it more to your liking
You most definitely don't have time to adapt all sauce code of all software "to your liking". Software isn't easy enough for that.

> It can't be that hard?
Yes, it can be *that* hard on the software development end.

Web browsers are the result of many tens of thousands of hours of work, the Linux kernel is millions of hours.

And it was mostly the right and motivated people doing it. You try this with a smaller pool of random programmers (or you yourself) s that just gotta get things done regardless if they are experienced with the thing they're developing, and it'll take a lot longer.

>>57522855
too much work for too little gain, plus keeping up with additional security patches becomes a nightmare if you've deviated too much from the mainline, PLUS enabling/disabling features using flags (feature-flags) has really fallen out of vogue it really is just a waste of time you should just trust us you dumbfucks systemd just works its the future now stop resisting.
t.lennart