@fsmithred . . . I suggested he look at that to confirm that multiboot can be done.  I thought if he poked at it a bit he might be able to figure out how to put one together.

I contribute one vote for the Solstice!  That's something that everyone on this planet shares in common. 

Longer days now coming . . .

Please look at the multi-boot iso that fsmithred made for the Devuan conference in April.  That may give you some hints.

Sorry, I don't have an answer for you but I feel your pain.  I have always been overwhelmed by the blob of text too.  That's one reason I use synaptic which produces a nice neat list that can be manipulated in several ways.

He, I and a few others raised hell on debian-users and FDN prior to the first GR.  He's a regular on skarnet's supervision list.

https://www.mail-archive.com/supervisio … arnet.org/
http://www.troubleshooters.com/ 
https://www.freelists.org/archive/modular-debian/

Yes he cares: https://get.refracta.org/   I also use 32 bit OS.  It does everything that I need. 

You can vet the code of course.    Sure it's creepy that ms is in charge of github but that's not really fair to judge devs who suffer from inertia and stay put there.

Reality check.  I didn't own a computer (which I didn't really want - it was a gift) till I was near 60.  I had zero technical background.  Then I wanted to "do things" so I taught myself . . . html and css from scratch in a text editor, graphics, audio and video editing, desktop theming etc .  If I didn't like something, I figured out how to fix it, even hacking the registry in my windoze days because I wanted things MY way.  My appetite for learning new things and experimenting may not be as voracious as it was all those years ago and tbh, I couldn't pull a bash script out of my head without DDG but I still manage to contribute to Devuan.  I bet you could find a niche that suits you if you looked hard enough.

We'll need less yammering and more hands on deck to do actual work.

Well said.  Impatience, impulsiveness and drama will derail the best-intentioned efforts.

Have at it.  Plenty of bugs to choose from.  We know they exist but it's easier to talk.

Note that some of these reports may not actually be "bugs" but we don't know because no one is checking.

Blah, blah, blah . . . all this talk is not going to save GNU-Linux.   Only DOING can accomplish that.

From the ASCII 2.1 point release announcement