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.

  • Ephera
    4•3 months ago

    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? 🙃

      • Ephera
        1•3 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
      1•3 months ago

      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
        1•3 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        • The bundled KDE is out of date and unstable.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.