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submitted 1 year ago by Nicbudd@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

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That's Fedora, though. If they prefer debian distros, Fedora may not be for them. As a (very limited) frame of reference, I prefer debian distros and I love silverblue. It is now my daily driver. I both dislike and very much like the containerization of it all.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

I hope you'll overcome your love hate relationship and settle your differences.
sends hug

If they prefer debian distros

I want to suggest Vanilla OS, but until the new Orchid is released I'll hold off from it, I thought it would be coming sooner by now, but I guess they still have a lot of work to do

Haha thanks!

Hugs back

I had gotten a used laptop with Win10Pro, and I only use Windows for work. I've always wanted to try Fedora, so I took this opportunity (I grabbed the Win10Pro key off of it beforehand, of course), and I'm very glad I did. Gentoo will be next, I think.

Vanilla looks very interesting! It looks like a very real prospect that I may be able to recommend to new users. Ubuntu's Unity has caused several people to whom I've recommend it, to revert back to Windows. Maybe Vanilla will keep them on Linux. I actually stopped recommending Ubuntu because of Unity, and started recommending Mint to Windows users or Budgie to Mac users. I know it's somewhat configurable, but the side app bar of Unity and the Windows 8 style app menu were among some of the reasons they disliked Ubuntu. They said that it felt "ancient".

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

grabbed the Win10Pro key off

Oh that's possible? I had no idea, well, not like I felt the need after discovering MAS on GitHub 👀

Good call on the change of recommendations imo, although I worry that those DEs might receive the Wayland treatment too late, that's a pretty important aspect to me.
The "ancient" thing was just funny tho

I use HBCD, grab the keys, and reboot into the Linux installation ISO.

I forgot about MAS!! Man, those scripts were so important when Vista just started losing its registration for kicks and giggles. I haven't really gotten into Wayland, so I'm not familiar with it's benefits yet, but know (just from reading comments) that's they're plentiful.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks for the info!

MAS is the GOAT TBH- acronym overload

In my experience the only improvement I actually noticed on Wayland was finally being able to screenshare correctly distinct monitors and app windows, there's definitely a whole lot of smaller things that got better with it though, as you say, so I think (if your hardware plays well with it) it is worth moving to

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