▲ 74 ▼ Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar? (distrochooser.de) submitted 2 years ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it's time to make that link a little more prominent?
[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What if we put together a table like https://github.com/basings/selfhosted-music-overview or https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries ? If one starts, I bet we can create an awesome table. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) What would it include? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's the biggest problem. Determine which festures are relevant to a user Actualy differences between distributions A difference could be ufw and firewalld but is that important? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's why distrochooser is a questionnaire 🤷 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the questions aren't good enough as you can see from the responses here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) "systemd question shouldn't be there" skip it "NVIDIA GPU question is missing" contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser "too many options" I want to say "read it", but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 "aaaand your top suggestions arreeee"... Also, people aren't suggesting alternatives except: "make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro". Is that really how we want to treat new users? "Please hold, in the meantime, here's an automated response." Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you're holding on a line? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) What would it include? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's the biggest problem. Determine which festures are relevant to a user Actualy differences between distributions A difference could be ufw and firewalld but is that important? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's why distrochooser is a questionnaire 🤷 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the questions aren't good enough as you can see from the responses here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) "systemd question shouldn't be there" skip it "NVIDIA GPU question is missing" contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser "too many options" I want to say "read it", but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 "aaaand your top suggestions arreeee"... Also, people aren't suggesting alternatives except: "make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro". Is that really how we want to treat new users? "Please hold, in the meantime, here's an automated response." Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you're holding on a line? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's the biggest problem. Determine which festures are relevant to a user Actualy differences between distributions A difference could be ufw and firewalld but is that important? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's why distrochooser is a questionnaire 🤷 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the questions aren't good enough as you can see from the responses here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) "systemd question shouldn't be there" skip it "NVIDIA GPU question is missing" contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser "too many options" I want to say "read it", but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 "aaaand your top suggestions arreeee"... Also, people aren't suggesting alternatives except: "make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro". Is that really how we want to treat new users? "Please hold, in the meantime, here's an automated response." Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you're holding on a line? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's why distrochooser is a questionnaire 🤷 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the questions aren't good enough as you can see from the responses here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) "systemd question shouldn't be there" skip it "NVIDIA GPU question is missing" contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser "too many options" I want to say "read it", but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 "aaaand your top suggestions arreeee"... Also, people aren't suggesting alternatives except: "make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro". Is that really how we want to treat new users? "Please hold, in the meantime, here's an automated response." Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you're holding on a line? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the questions aren't good enough as you can see from the responses here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) "systemd question shouldn't be there" skip it "NVIDIA GPU question is missing" contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser "too many options" I want to say "read it", but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 "aaaand your top suggestions arreeee"... Also, people aren't suggesting alternatives except: "make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro". Is that really how we want to treat new users? "Please hold, in the meantime, here's an automated response." Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you're holding on a line? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) "systemd question shouldn't be there" skip it "NVIDIA GPU question is missing" contribute https://github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser "too many options" I want to say "read it", but IMO this is presentation, because pros and cons are clearly listed, but maybe it looks like a lot of text. Maybe people need some kind of visual like a podium and a drum roll. 🥁 "aaaand your top suggestions arreeee"... Also, people aren't suggesting alternatives except: "make a bot that randomly picks a popular distro". Is that really how we want to treat new users? "Please hold, in the meantime, here's an automated response." Do you follow advice given in automated responses when you're holding on a line? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The random choice isn't really a joke. It doesn't matter too much which distro you pick. Any distro of the big ones will suit your needs. There will be cases where one or the other will not fulfill your needs out of the box The systemd question keeps the mantra alive that there is something wrong with systemd which isn't. This has to die sooner rather than later. permalink fedilink source parent