Obscure distributions? Source tarballs? What are you two on about?
Debian, Ubuntu's daddy, is the creator of the apt system. You'd be insane to say it's not a distribution for power users. Then there's other major distros with large user bases. Don't blame Ubuntu if you've never looked beyond its borders.
Perhaps what's needed is a "Devbuntu" that relies on most of the same components as Ubuntu, but targets power users.
Debian, Ubuntu's daddy, is the creator of the apt system. You'd be insane to say it's not a distribution for power users. Then there's other major distros with large user bases. Don't blame Ubuntu if you've never looked beyond its borders.
Perhaps what's needed is a "Devbuntu" that relies on most of the same components as Ubuntu, but targets power users.
Just use Debian.