Thank you for that link. The whole discussion was in my eyes (apart from the occasional derailment into vaccines) quite a good example of how to deliver criticism without resorting to personal attacks on anybody.
The background for this seems to be that the maintainer decided to stop shipping security updates for certain packages. One of the people in the discussion put in some work to help rectify these and other packaging problems only have their changes reverted by the lead maintainer.
The project then proceeded to host their downloads with an insecure Wordpress blog. After serving malware, the response was to remove the malware and return to normal. When downloads were compromised a second time, however "briefly", the above discussion happened. In the light of that the discussion is a lot more civil than could be expected.
> I still overwhelmingly consider it the best distro for converting friends and family away from Windows or OSX
Unless the situation has improved significantly in those three years, perhaps you are not doing them a service moving them to more sparse security updates. It's 2019 now and security is not optional.
Entitled users exist, and can be a problem, but the situation here seems to be a lot more complicated than what the author wants to believe.
from Hacker News - New Comments: "WordPress" http://bit.ly/2UuMw4F
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