• aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think a unified package manager/app store model that is vetted by all contributing distros would go a long way. SteamOS/Steam deck is bringing gamers to linux and that’s great. But it would be easier to bring on a lot more desktop users if there was an app store that every distro could visit. Flatpak is close, snaps however I think are too polarizing.

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      1 year ago

      I use fedora silverblue. I’d like to switch to suse microos but the difference is so small that it’s probably not worth it to switch. (Just a guesstimate, silverblue has some goodies afterall with the whole image centric os)

      Probably, it’s almost the same for vanillaos. Because everything is within distrobox and flatpak, I do not work with the native package manager anymore (almost, there are exceptions because of the DE).

      If I would switch to microos, I, as an enduser, wouldn’t notice too much a real difference.

      People should stop making new distros for what should be a post install script. But, things are fucking complicated and that’s why we need the forks and new distros.