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What could your distro learn from another distro? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 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] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I gather that not everything is compatible with nixOS, and it's better as a server than for development or as a general OS.

I didn't know Alma was declarative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense.

No, I wish for something like Alma, but declarative and atomic :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s something we might see with the next EL release cycle. rpm-ostree has treefiles complete with the option for (experimental) lockfiles. There’s already config files for CentOS Stream to build CentOS Stream CoreOS, and those can be adapted for Alma. I think, atm, it’s more of an issue of general interest than technical limitations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ah nice, thanks for pointing me to it!