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What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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[–] Matt@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago

I wish Debian had a version with more recent software that is suitable for regular use. I know many people use Testing and Sid, but Testing often has delayed security updates and it’s not unusual for Sid to break. And both get weird around the freeze for the next release. It would be great if there was a version like Tumbleweed that was constantly rolling and received automated testing to prevent many of the problems Unstable experiences.

I currently use Tumbleweed on my computers and Debian on my servers, but I would love to use Debian on everything.

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

As someone who's an active user and contributor to Fedora: words cannot express enough how much I hate US laws.

It's the reason we can't ship with H.264 hardware decoding out of the box, it's the reason why we can't provide access to our project and our community to sanctioned countries (Cuba being one that really hurts me, but mainly Iran right now, which makes me really sad because I'm having to answer people from Iran almost weekly asking on how they can be a part of the project with "unfortunately you can't").

I dream of a day where Fedora's trademark changed to the hands of a non-profit foundation outside of the US.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

Debian needs a better installer. It'd be awesome if it had something more akin to Fedora/RHEL's Anaconda, or even just made Calamares the default (so long as it didn't install every single locale available like their live inages currently do).

[–] halfway_neko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Arch, btw)

Technical: Better, easier to use APIs for pacman. The last time I tried to do alpm stuff, it wasn't fun.

Social: Less rtfm. The manual is good, but it's not cool when people are super elitist (especially towards newbies).

[–] Falcon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The manual is OK, much of it’s out dated and often outright wrong. It is still a great document.

Edits to the wiki are often knocked back if they weren’t made by the inner circle, discussions on the back page are often closed and frankly the TUs are mostly wankers. The forum policy on necro-bumping leaves half answers everywhere but the notion of “put it in the wiki” is undermined by the toxic community among inner party members.

Arch is a great middle ground between Fedora and Gentoo, but I had to walk away because the community was so toxic and childish.

I’m using void and Gentoo now and I’m pretty happy, anything that doesn’t run works in a container anyway.

TL;DR: community behaviour is much more important to me than technical use.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have Ubuntu stop forcing me to use Snaps.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you should switch your favourite then?

The enshittification of Ubuntu will not stop on an enforced Appstore.