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I'm trying to wrap my head around why I even need to consider adding Terra to my repository list. Coming from distrobutions like Arch and Nix, there's an exhaustive list of packages in existence. Given how Fedora is at the forefront of innovation for workstation desktops, I kinda wonder why their own repositories (plus copr, plus rpm fusion, plus flatpaks [ew]) do not cut it? Terra "only" has around 200 stars at the time of this question and it's a few years old now, too. I'm surprised that there isn't more interest. So, what was the motivation to make and maintain Terra? |
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is your question answered in #6897? |
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Yep, it more or less does. Sounds like Fedora and it's connected communities don't all agree on the best way to package their apps going forward, which is an unsurprising problem. Tale as old as time. When I landed on your website, thanks to a suggestion from a fediverse connection, the bold statement on the front page really had me wondering why Terra isn't at the forefront of Fedora community packaging. Maybe it's on its way :) |
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I should also mention that stars are a poor metric of popularity and usage. By the same logic, rpmfusion could be argued that it has less popularity, since it has less stars than Terra. We know that Terra is well used and growing through metrics on our mirror director. I'd be willing to bet most people install the repo from the website and just use it without much of a thought, the people who would star it on GitHub would probably be more technical (Fedora is a more normie friendly distro) or interested in contributing. Additionally, much of the usage comes from Fedora downstreams that use our packages (ex. ublue), such that users aren't directly interacting with Terra. |
Oh yeah, it's poor but it's also the one we have.
The same could easily be said with the Nix package manager, but alas, 21 thousand stars on Github. They are more than 10 years old now, however.
This honestly tracks, but it is less so normie friendly than say...Ubuntu. Thanks for the ublue mention. I'll look it up! |
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Yeah, my bet with nix for example, is beacuse the community is much more technical, the ratio of users who star to the total number will be much higher. I can see why people care about the number of stars though, so maybe I could add some kind of CTA on the website. Fedora is becoming more and more appealing to a widespread audience, mostly thanks to downstreams. For example, Bazzite (which is a ublue project and depends on Terra) has become the go to distro for handhold gaming. Terra itself was started beacuse of our downstream, Ultramarine. |
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What! I thought Arch was the gaming distro thanks in no small part to Steam. I'll have to check all of these out. |
is your question answered in #6897?