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.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The Debian Wiki would actually like a word.

      There is stuff in there that’s not found anywhere else. For example while researching driverless printing recently I found a huge page on the Debian Wiki but the Arch wiki only has a paragraph saying supporting printers should be detected automatically.

  • barbara@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    All distros, or none: flatpak has to improve in regards to launching an app from terminal. Following is a joke:

    flatpak run com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player
    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Why can’t the installation create aliases like

      flatpak run jellyfin-media-player ? And then highlight conflicts during?

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Probably the start menu back to what it should be. Back with distro windows xp.

    Wait no nvm wrong community.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I also think we could learn website design from… looks at notes …everyone else.

    whacks you with a rolled up newspaper No! Bad. Wrong.

    There is a beauty to simplicity that’s lost on so many. I can load a Debian wiki page over a dial-up connection at the south pole. The design is uncluttered and uncomplicated. That goes for every page on debian.org

    I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be “the universal operating system”.

    I always took “universal” to be in the sense of “universal remote”: it’s not universally adopted, it’s universally applicable. The fact that it’s the upstream of so many major distros (including Mint) indicates that it’s accomplished that.

    Making it “new user” friendly necessarily requires restrictions and choices made by the maintainers for the ease of the users, which negates the “unversality.”

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      6 months ago

      I agree that there is beauty in simplicity. In my opinion, OpenBSD has the best website.
      It’s not about using fancy effects, it’s about the sprawling logical layout and making it hard to navigate. It used to be better around 2005, when it had the left navigation index. I remember people said it was ugly then, but imho they changed the wrong aspects of it, removing the structure without adding simplicity.
      For example, a new user reading this page https://l10n.debian.org/ will be confused. It only makes sense to me since I’ve already translated a bunch of debconf-po-files. These are my opinions, but you are welcome to disagree. Also, please don’t hit people with rolled up newspapers, it’s rude.

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Fedora, NixOS and Void need a proper wiki like Arch

    Most distros could also learn from Arch and create something similar to the AUR. Nix is going in the right direction.

    And I guess almost all distros could learn from Artix and Devuan and reconsider if systemd is the right choice.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The Debian website is trash and I’m glad to see it acknowledged. People always take criticism of the website as if folks are saying it looks ugly. No. The layout is just icky.

  • S. G. Tallentyre@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Everything from each other. Almost no distro will ever be extremely effective at doing anything that is literally impossible on any other distro.