fell

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[–] fell@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 2 months ago (44 children)

A true mainstream Linux distro would need guidelines like this:

  • The user is never be expected to type a command into a terminal.
  • The user is never be expected to edit a configuration file.
  • There is a graphical UI for every possible action the user might want to (or have to) do.

This especially includes:

  • Configuring audio devices
  • Installing graphics drivers
  • Updating the operating system
  • Managing applications and storage space
  • Connecting to networked storage
  • Adjusting kernel parameters (This is neccessary on certain hardware, yet, barely any distro has a graphical UI for it.)

The only distro that comes close to this is Linux Mint, but not even Mint covers everything I just mentioned.

If we want Linux to succeed, there needs to be at least one distro that confidently ships without a terminal.