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Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

A robust way to make an install script on arch Linux.

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I would love to see an ostree-based (immutable) Debian for both stable and unstable.

Aside from that, my nitpicks aren't distro-oriented.

[–] linuxoveruser@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

NixOS

I love NixOS, but the documentation is terrible. Better documentation would go a long way to making it a more user-friendly platform.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can we get a free software only version of every distro? That's what I want.

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I really haven't given nix the language the time it deserves, but I really want nixosr configuration bindings in Python. Yes it makes me want to vomit but I do kind of live and breathe Python these days. Maybe a python nix generator would be more appropriate, either way it would totally destroy the benefits of using nix

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nix really isn't very difficult, the way you'd use it for a system configuration it's more like a config file than programming

It's mostly stuff like programs.firefox = { enable = true; };

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

NixOS

Mostly perfect in my opinion but it'd be nice if when they renamed options they didn't deprecate the old option names so old configs still worked

[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Release Cosmic DE Alpha…can’t wait!

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'd love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Garuda. I wish the base install of wine actually worked, and that half the packages in chaotic-aur weren't buggy as fuck or just completely non functional.

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[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I still don't know the technical details between zram and zswap but I feel like fedora should switch to zswap and support hibernation out the box

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Slackware: nothing, it's perfect just the way it is.

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