The guide is mainly meant for exact this kind of new users, who are perfectly fine with either Fedora or Mint. I excluded edge-cases, like QubesOS, completely on purpose, as this should be consisting of only 2 (or so) distros with different DEs. This should make 80% of exactly those post redundant. If someone wants a “non-normal” distro, they can still of course feel free to ask.
I agree that it makes sense to start with tackling the problem in a way compliant with the 80/20 rule; i.e. 20 percent of the work to deal with 80 percent of the cases. I’m perhaps too much of a (wannabe) perfectionist/tryhard, which is why the process described in my previous post was a lot more involved and (perhaps) therefore more utopian/idealist than realistic. Perhaps I’ve even alluded to this a couple of times 😅.
I thought about using Sozi as a tool to achieve that. I have to research tho how to make a website first. My idea was to keep the exact structure of the chart, but when you zoom in a lot to the distro, you get the description.
Great idea! FWIW, perhaps an interactive map with pop-ups may be utilized to that effect. Though, there’s plenty to consider here and a lot of ways to do it justice. I trust in your capabilities to achieve that splendidly.
I see VanillaOS as a great competitor to Mint, especially for people who want something of a managed and simple experience, while also being capable to do normal PC stuff. I see VOS 2 as “stable” enough in just a few weeks, there’s mainly only some polishing and fixing in newer under-the-hood stuff, but the surface-stuff is already fine.
I haven’t installed the beta of its Orchid release yet. So, hopefully my gut feeling is just wrong. Ironically, the first time I installed a relatively immature version of an atomic distro (Fedora Kinoite, but like its first release (so Fedora 35 at the time)), it was a very bad experience and I rebased right away to Silverblue and haven’t look back since 🤣. Hopefully others will not be stung by VOS 2, like how I was stung by Kinoite.
It’s mainly about preference, if one likes a simple UI or prefers traditional workflows. How can I make that more clear?
By not naming any of the associated operating systems, but instead opt to distill their respective workflows in plain text. I’m very aware that this is pretty hard without spending way too many words on their descriptions. Therefore, perhaps it’s worth exploring if the ‘intended workflows’ of the different DEs might be (screen) captured and displayed as gifs. Obviously with the caveat that the ‘intended’ isn’t forced upon them and that they’re free to change them to better suit their needs.