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.

  • 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.