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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).

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

submitted 7 months ago by pmk@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Titou@feddit.de 8 points 7 months ago (12 children)

If you want Debian but user-friendly, just use Mint, Debian is easy enough to install. It's like asking Gentoo or Arch to drop a easy installer, it would break the point of using it.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Gentoo and Arch do have easy installers (Arch via the Arch install script, Gentoo... Well, they provide stage 3 already built, a genkernel option, and even binary distribution now, which greatly simplifies the process)

[–] Titou@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Arch install is not official and it's not that stable, and what's the point of using Gentoo if you don't use the main reason to use it ?

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, that one had me scratching my head too, I doubt I'd ever use the precompiled binaries on Gentoo myself

The stage 3 tarballs and genkernel, though, make an install that could take a week or more down to a few hours; having successfully built a system from a stage 1 with customized kernel, that's not an experience I feel a burning desire to go through again

[–] Titou@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

having successfully built a system from a stage 1 with customized kernel, that's not an experience I feel a burning desire to go through again

It's a way to do, and yes it's not made for everyone. Currently im using vanilla Arch but i understand how great source installed Gentoo is

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