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who's ready for slack gaming

@mahadevank@mastodon.social @Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange I understand the enthusiasm, but this is what distros are meant to be. Package maintainers extensively test software, package them (and their dependencies) together in a coherent enough way that you can just run apt install steam and have it pull in all of the dependencies like libsdl2. In my experience, it's not even the people running the distro that are the problem; it's usually community support resources (such as IRC channels, Discord guilds, etc.) in which this mentality runs prevalent. A better "fix" for this would be pushing for distributions to update their code of conduct (and perhaps actually enforce it). We still run into the issue of nobody using the same distro (and therefore these sorts of rules not being universal even when implemented). I don't know the answer, and I don't want this to be seen as dismissive, but I do want to give some context on why we can't just group of volunteers our way out of it. I think it'd require widespread change in the somewhat fragmented existing community.