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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What could your distro learn from another distro? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 months ago by pmk@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is it cheating, if my workplace makes me use a worse distro and I list all the ways it's worse than my usual distro? 🙃

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not cheating if your usual one is Arch

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Well, then it is cheating.

It would also be kind of weird to compare to Arch, since Arch makes you configure so much yourself.
Like, my biggest complaint is that I feel extremely naked without automatic btrfs snapshots. Obviously, you could configure those on Arch, but that would require understanding significantly more about btrfs than I currently do.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How much does it help if you use only the bare minimum from the host OS and install Distrobox with the distro you like for everything else?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I had to read up on it just now, but I don't think, that works in my case.

So, the worse distro here is Kubuntu. Personally, I use openSUSE Tumbleweed.
My problems with Kubuntu are mainly:

The bundled KDE is out of date and unstable. KDE is integral to my workflow.
No automatic filesystem snapshotting. If I fuck up, that's my system ruined.

And yeah, it seems like Distrobox is mainly useful for running CLI programs, maybe individual GUI apps, but not whole desktop environments. And it re-uses the filesystem of the host system, so that kind of precludes filesystem snapshots, too.