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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 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Alpine & OpenBSD with CLI installers, minimalism, lack of bloat and strong KISS philosophies, they remind me of what Arch Linux used to be -- I don't want any crapware if possible (dbus, systemd, polkit, logind etc). Just nice and simple.

The only one I have installed is dbus, unless you want to manually patch it out it's pretty much everywhere (Gentoo is nice for this).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you would like Void or Chimera

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've used Void over half a decade or so, runit is nice, but I think I like the Alpine ecosystem more, plus Void has some oddities to me.

For instance, in the repositories no forks of big projects like Librewolf instead of Firefox, no crytos like Monero, also xbps has both caps and non caps for naming for projects, it's nice to not have to use caps to install things. I know you can get around most of this with stuff like flatpak :)

I tried Chimera and liked it but again Alpine has a larger ecosystem, it's more established in that respect both from containers and router/server use.

I'm also pretty used to Alpine's quirks at this point, I've run it a quite a lot on my laptop with a funky DIY ZFS install and also run-from-RAM quite a lot on USBs. Having a stable branch is nice too, although I never really had many problems on Void either!