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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived (blog.zorin.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think a unified package manager/app store model that is vetted by all contributing distros would go a long way. SteamOS/Steam deck is bringing gamers to linux and that's great. But it would be easier to bring on a lot more desktop users if there was an app store that every distro could visit. Flatpak is close, snaps however I think are too polarizing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You're 100% right that this is a danger of attempting to consolidate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

despite my xkdc smartassedness I would love to see something that made an easy to do thing like this for linux https://portableapps.com/ there are some close things but not quite so easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I use fedora silverblue. I'd like to switch to suse microos but the difference is so small that it's probably not worth it to switch. (Just a guesstimate, silverblue has some goodies afterall with the whole image centric os)

Probably, it's almost the same for vanillaos. Because everything is within distrobox and flatpak, I do not work with the native package manager anymore (almost, there are exceptions because of the DE).

If I would switch to microos, I, as an enduser, wouldn't notice too much a real difference.

People should stop making new distros for what should be a post install script. But, things are fucking complicated and that's why we need the forks and new distros.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thx for the elaboration. That's what I roughly meant with "image centric os".

Opensuse aeon encourages you to use flatpak. The first thing it does right after installation is to install apps from flathub, including firefox (unlike silverblue).

An example from the doc

For this reason, All Applications, Browsers, Codecs needed for specific apps, etc are provided by FlatPaks from FlatHub.

Especially the following

To reiterate: EVERYTHING should be done via Flatpaks or be installed in a Distrobox if a package is not available as a flatpak. Using transactional-update is strictly what you need for your host operating system to work (exotic drivers, specialized vpn services).

Usually, you do not rollback, you do not go back to an older system. On both systems, you use distrobox and flatpak. I don't see much of a difference as an end user.