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Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?

  • beta_tester
    2·
    11 months ago

    That’s the biggest problem.

    1. Determine which festures are relevant to a user
    2. Actualy differences between distributions

    A difference could be ufw and firewalld but is that important?

      • beta_tester
        3·
        11 months ago

        But the questions aren’t good enough as you can see from the responses here

        • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          “systemd question shouldn’t be there”

          skip it

          “NVIDIA GPU question is missing”

          contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser

          “too many options”

          I want to say “read it”, but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 “aaaand your top suggestions arreeee”…

          Also, people aren’t suggesting alternatives except: “make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro”. Is that really how we want to treat new users? “Please hold, in the meantime, here’s an automated response.” Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you’re holding on a line?

          • beta_tester
            3·
            11 months ago

            The random choice isn’t really a joke. It doesn’t matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs.

            There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box

            The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn’t. This has to die sooner rather than later.