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submitted 1 year ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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[-] Kristof12@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Devuan - A better installer like Calamares and stop using backports as default on ISO lol it's a pain to use Ceres from there

Siduction - They should use a bit more ISO's giving 2/3 instead of 5 options to make available more ISO's regularly, obsolete ISO that is updated yearly lmao

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I would love to see an ostree-based (immutable) Debian for both stable and unstable.

Aside from that, my nitpicks aren't distro-oriented.

[-] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I would make Debian and Arch be deterministic like NixOS, but with a different language and less overhead. I really like the principle but the implementation is subpar.

[-] Andy@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

For Arch, you may like a project called aconfmgr.

[-] Helix@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

If it wasn't written in bash... 😢

[-] ipsirc@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Bring back the old xpenguins and xsnow packages in Debian.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Can we get a free software only version of every distro? That's what I want.

[-] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Debian is all free software if you just use the main repo and avoid non-free and non-free-firmware.

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[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

A robust way to make an install script on arch Linux.

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I really haven't given nix the language the time it deserves, but I really want nixosr configuration bindings in Python. Yes it makes me want to vomit but I do kind of live and breathe Python these days. Maybe a python nix generator would be more appropriate, either way it would totally destroy the benefits of using nix

[-] lupec@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.

[-] lupec@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nix really isn't very difficult, the way you'd use it for a system configuration it's more like a config file than programming

It's mostly stuff like programs.firefox = { enable = true; };

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[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

NixOS

Mostly perfect in my opinion but it'd be nice if when they renamed options they didn't deprecate the old option names so old configs still worked

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'd love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.

[-] linuxoveruser@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

NixOS

I love NixOS, but the documentation is terrible. Better documentation would go a long way to making it a more user-friendly platform.

[-] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I still don't know the technical details between zram and zswap but I feel like fedora should switch to zswap and support hibernation out the box

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wish Gentoo would make important information like unmasking packages more easily accessible, like directly into the handbook itself so that I don't have to search how to do it every time I need to unmask a package (I always forget how to).

I also wish alpine Linux had an option to use glibc instead of musl

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Garuda. I wish the base install of wine actually worked, and that half the packages in chaotic-aur weren't buggy as fuck or just completely non functional.

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[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Slackware: nothing, it's perfect just the way it is.

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