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.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      71·
      6 months ago

      I think that’s what BlendOS is working towards. You might keep an eye on them.

        • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          41·
          6 months ago

          It may be ready, I haven’t tried their latest version. Most of the functionality was there, but it had some rough spots. I’ve been meaning to go back and try daily driving it again.

    • stuner@lemmy.world
      41·
      6 months ago

      What do you miss in NixOS (Unstable)?

      I think a declarative, atomic LTS distro (e.g. Alma) would be quite nice for business use.

      • Confetti Camouflage@pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        I’ve been messing about with NixOS for the past 2 weeks or so. While I think I know enough to plug in the right text in the right spots to get a system configured I feel like I understand nothing about the nix language and the syntax is extremely unintuitive to me. If another distro offered declarative configuration as well as something like Nix’s options I would easily swap away from NixOS at this point.

      • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        6 months ago

        I gather that not everything is compatible with nixOS, and it’s better as a server than for development or as a general OS.

        I didn’t know Alma was declarative.

          • biribiri11@lemmy.ml
            2·
            6 months ago

            It’s something we might see with the next EL release cycle. rpm-ostree has treefiles complete with the option for (experimental) lockfiles. There’s already config files for CentOS Stream to build CentOS Stream CoreOS, and those can be adapted for Alma. I think, atm, it’s more of an issue of general interest than technical limitations.