What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?

kugmo , 4 months ago

I’d just want more package maintainers for Arch, some people maintaining 1000+ packages is crazy and would take a load off of them.

ikidd , 4 months ago

Manjaro: someone diarize the fucking SSL renewal date, please.

danikpapas , 4 months ago

Arch, literally nothing, everything i didnt like i changed myself. Now i have the perfect user experience

Kristof12 , 4 months 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

callyral , 4 months ago

The documentation. It needs more of it.

the distroIt’s NixOS, the docs could be better, had a lot of confusion and had to watch a lot of tutorials when getting started, when I should’ve been able to just read the documentation instead.

ransomwarelettuce , 4 months ago

Imagine NixOS with arch level’s wiki.

I for one love the NixOS concept, but I can’t phantom myself to learn it with such poor docs.

I love the concept so much that I even tried to replicate it with arch and ansible. No need to tell how that went. . .

ipacialsection , 4 months ago

Debian needs a better installer. It’d be awesome if it had something more akin to Fedora/RHEL’s Anaconda, or even just made Calamares the default (so long as it didn’t install every single locale available like their live inages currently do).

Matt , 4 months ago

I wish Debian had a version with more recent software that is suitable for regular use. I know many people use Testing and Sid, but Testing often has delayed security updates and it’s not unusual for Sid to break. And both get weird around the freeze for the next release. It would be great if there was a version like Tumbleweed that was constantly rolling and received automated testing to prevent many of the problems Unstable experiences.

I currently use Tumbleweed on my computers and Debian on my servers, but I would love to use Debian on everything.

xilliah , 4 months ago

PopOs

Not have 10s of GBs of updates every week. I mean seriously wtf.

ngn , 4 months ago

artix: adding arch repos to artix results in bunch of package issues, after using it for a while it gets to a point where you have to specify 50+ –assume-installed flags just to Syyu

i switched to arch just because of this

hubobes , 4 months ago

Release Cosmic DE Alpha…can’t wait!

codebam , 4 months ago

Alpine linux but with layers just like Fedora Silverblue

atzanteol , 4 months ago

Stop using stupid adjective/animal for release names. When editing an apt list I don’t want to have to lookup “which release was ‘xenial’?” Just use the yy.mm format.

LeFantome , 4 months ago

I have never really been an Ubuntu user. When I started reading your comment, I was thinking “well that seems like a prettt small nitpick”. Then I realized the problem and now I am 100% behind you. You are right, they elate throwing away one of the greatest strengths of the distro in that releases ( numbered releases ) have easy to understand and very meaningful names.

So much information thrown away just to be cute.

Is there a reason? Do the dots in the release numbers confuse things? Or is it purely historical?

Somebody needs to create a fork of APT that does this ( uses release numbers instead ). It could translate the release numbers you use in your sources file to the code names before making the request. I mean, they are unambiguously convertable.

atzanteol , 4 months ago

Is there a reason? Do the dots in the release numbers confuse things? Or is it purely historical?

I think it goes back to Debian using “Toy Story” characters for releases - they’re in the same bed here as Ubuntu (I’m running “bullseye”). I’m not sure how it started but it’s too cute for no gain. At least the docker images are tagged with both so you don’t need to remember whether “jammy” is an LTS or not.

MonkderZweite , 4 months ago

My favorite distro doesn’t have the ressources, so i would have the big distros create an alternative to elogind, maybe help on turnstile for this.

LeFantome , 4 months ago

Chimera?

MonkderZweite , 4 months ago

Artix

Caboose12000 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

id have nobara go back to Firefox as default browser, or at least a chromium that’s a little more palletable like Vivaldi or something. heck even a checkbox at installation asking which browser to install would be fine, anything but stock Google chrome

edit: just double checked and it looks like nobara uses chromium not chrome, my bad

yetAnotherUser , 4 months ago

What? Nobara has pre-installed stock Google Chrome? That sucks…

Caboose12000 , 4 months ago

I just double checked and it looks like it’s actually stock chromium, my bad. id still prefer Firefox but chromium is at least better than chrome

XTL , 4 months ago

Debian

• Say the current stable and testing version number and name clearly on the web front page. Actually put it on every single page instead of burying it somewhere. It takes no space at all and is stupidly hard to find of you’re ootl.
• Nicer installer. Make sure images with WiFi drivers and firmware are easy to find.

Also I wish every distribution had a wiki as nice as Arch’s.

rufus , 4 months ago

If I might add something: We could turn something like testing or unstable into a proper rolling release for desktop machines. It works reasonably well for that. However it is completely unsupported and would require some change to the release model and manpower dedicated to it.

drndramrndra , 4 months ago

Debian + nix unstable and you get the best of both worlds. Bleeding edge userland, and the system always boots^btw

hellvolution , 4 months ago

You know you can just write: stable or testing on your /etc/apt/sources.list repository config, instead of the distro codename, don’t you?

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut , 4 months ago

Make sure images with WiFi drivers and firmware are easy to find.

That’s included in the main installation iso now.