Insane effort. This sounded like a pipe dream just a couple of years ago. Congrats to everyone involved, especially to those who drove the effort.
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I’ve said it many times and I’ll repeat it here - Debian will be one of the few Linux distros we have right now, that will still exist 100 years from now.
Yea, it’s not as modern in terms of versioning and risk compared to the likes of Arch, but that’s also a feature!
Then that's a good reason not to use Debian indeed. Whatever the distro you choose, you give your trust to its maintainers.
But that's also a feature: instead of trusting random code from the Internet, you can trust random code from the Internet that has been vetted by a group of maintainers you chose to trust. Which is a bit less random, I think?
If you ever want a laugh, one should read what Canonical puts the kids though for the role. One could get a job flying a plane with less paperwork...
Authenticated signed packaging is often a slow process, and some people do prefer rapid out-of-band pip/npm/cargo/go until something goes sideways... and no one knows who was responsible (or which machine/user is compromised.)
Not really random, but understandably slow given the task of reaching "stable" OS release involves hundreds of projects... =3