• 1 Post
  • 27 Comments
Joined 7 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 30th, 2025

help-circle







  • Extensions are there to be used, just use them. Imagine using kde or firefox without adjusting it. There is a base version that fits for everyone and people can write extenions.

    Yes, many extensions should be in the base version but who am I to tell the GNOME devs what to include? The extension manager should be included by default. It’s the distro’s maintainers fault if it’s not included at this point. They should be easier to discover, but again, I am not really helping to improve the situation either.


  • illusionist@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux Mint
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    That won’t happen on mint anytime soon. It may be somewhat achievable on ostree/OCI distros like fedora silverblue but even there it’s difficult.

    I guess you simply want a backup and sync feature on the end user level. You could look into syncthing and sync whatever you want to have synced.





  • Installing arch is not difficult. Difficult is to keep track on innovation in the linux space. You are responsible to install and maintain everything. You have to decide if you want something like selinux, at what time it is mature enough to use it, install and use it. You have to evaluate if selinux is better than it’s “competitors”. You have to decide which firewall you use today and as soon as a new system pops up, you have to read up on it. You decide at what time flatpak is mature enough to use it. All this and much more is done and decided by distro maintainers. They keep up with new stuff and guide you. By using arch, you decide that you want to take care of it and that is ok, but no “normal” pc user who uses her PC once a week shall be expected to read upon all the computer maintenance stuff that is just of secondary importance to her.








  • That sounds bad. Are there any examples?

    I mean it would be easier to just say that fedora is american and suse is european. And thus, suse should be preferred.

    Fedora is a great distro, what decision did IBM take/influence that makes it worse?

    Opensuse is awesome but fedoras atomic ostree distros are amazing. Opensuse does not have such an amazing distribution channel afaik. There is no bazzite built with suse. And no other ublue project.