Why Debian is different to other distros

Recently somebody in a forum was mocking the new website of Debian. In fact the website looks... let's say different than the websites of other corporation-governed distros like RHEL & CentOS. Many would argue that there are more important technological differences between Debian and RHEL or Fedora. Fedora belongs to the RPM camp whereas Debian is the synonym for the DEB package format camp. Some distros are defaulting to the Snap package manager whereas others to Flatpak.

However I would argue that all these technical differences are rather superficial to what is the actual differentiator for using Debian vs CentOS or Fedora. Debian is a community-driven distro that is not governed by a corporation like RedHat that naturally pursues its own interests in the first place. Of course, also Debian gets funding from major corporations and this is a good thing! Still the governance model of Debian allows it to focus on the interests of its community and not on the profit-driven interests of a corporation. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being profit-driven. This is how businesses need to operate. However serving the interests of a corporation by following its governance model does not always serve the long-term interests of its users who would like to stay detached from a particular company, its agenda and its other products.

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