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What could your distro learn from another distro?
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Is it cheating, if my workplace makes me use a worse distro and I list all the ways it's worse than my usual distro? 🙃
It's not cheating if your usual one is Arch
Well, then it is cheating.
It would also be kind of weird to compare to Arch, since Arch makes you configure so much yourself.
Like, my biggest complaint is that I feel extremely naked without automatic btrfs snapshots. Obviously, you could configure those on Arch, but that would require understanding significantly more about btrfs than I currently do.
How much does it help if you use only the bare minimum from the host OS and install Distrobox with the distro you like for everything else?
I had to read up on it just now, but I don't think, that works in my case.
So, the worse distro here is Kubuntu. Personally, I use openSUSE Tumbleweed.
My problems with Kubuntu are mainly:
And yeah, it seems like Distrobox is mainly useful for running CLI programs, maybe individual GUI apps, but not whole desktop environments. And it re-uses the filesystem of the host system, so that kind of precludes filesystem snapshots, too.