Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the project.
I feel like debian is living in some other world. The requirement to be able to build everything locally, to the extent that no modules can even be downloaded, is a bit ridiculous.
It causes a lot of pain this way.