I’d say that beginner friendly distros are not limiting for experienced users.
Experienced level distros can be very hard for beginners.
Sometimes integer to them as “preconfigured” instead of “beginner” distros.
Although many arch derivatives fit that description and instill wouldn’t recommend them for beginners.
Worst when the newcomers chose Arch because they’ve heard is very configurable.
Then complain that Linux is hard.
Why does it need to go on mass production? OP explained they want to get to a point where they share their design.
I keep repeating the same about Linux and other free software projects. The main goal is freedom, not market share.
OPs project seems to follow the same goals. And I find it awesome.
For me:
There may be some others but I find Bash clumsy (or maybe I’m just clumsy in bash) when I need to use it.
People compare gnome to Desktops with a 30 year old interface which is painfully cumbersome but that they are used to.
I was on the no Gnome camp after Gnome 2 but came back around Gnome 40 (2022) and I was surprised at how simple and stable it is. I agree that many things that are extensions should be built in, but I also agree with the filosophy of not spreading resources to thin and if people want a feature, they can build it.
I only use two or three extensions but mostly need only one: Forge.
I still use Niri as my primary environment but I think that Gnome is good.
I grind my teeth every time I need to use an environment with an old style menu and cumbersome tiling.
C’mon. End users haven’t used drop down menues to start apps for a long time. The iOS/Android drawer style is more comfortable and can adapt to the user’s organizational preferences.
Become “so bad” is different than “I don’t like it”
A lot of people use gnome without any issues. It’s stable, it has one of the simplest workflows and it’s generally out of the way.
No machine is faster and more stable. There are open source implementations too.
I mean…mine was theoretically usable. But practically, it was compiling all the time.
I really don’t understand how can people use it. I really tried.
I had Gentoo as primary for 6 months. 6 months of an unusable computer always compiling.
I did a bit of LFS and while I didn’t get to a full desktop, it helped a lot.
Well, Slackware was a main distro two or three decades ago. I give you that. Il pretty sure that’s what I installed when I installed my first Linux mid/early 99’s.
Gentoo has always been niche.
I’m very choosy with AUR. I know people hail it as the holy grail but the lack of vetting makes it “delicate”.
This is, in the best of cases, what’s being packaged hasn’t been properly tested. In the worst, you really need to read the package file and understand it enough to confirm you can trust the sources or risk being surprised.
In that thought experiment there are more scenarios. Remembering that stepping on a butterfly can change… This is, small input changes can have big repercussions down the line.
You cannot assume what Linux would be in that scenario.
Who knows if it would have been colored by a main corporation.
Capitalism would have found a way to leverage it and new computers would be sold.
So, it’s the worst for you and still the best for others, right?
Arch is the worst because… And the best because…
Same with every other.
In fact I’d argue that every single distro is the best for at least one person.
What did you think I asked about Windows?
Windows 8 and that was at work. At home, windows XP, although I kept updating my dual boot “just in case” to see what was new all the way to windows 10. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 11 my desktop was no longer supported (no TPM). I used a workaround that failed and never cared to waste time. I may do it when I have more time.
I was still familiar up to Windows 10 as sometimes I helped my dad. He is quite technical but he is now 91 (still sharp enough to drive, socialize extensively, deal with bureaucracies, etc but tends to forget more than what he learns). Unfortunatelly he lives 4000 km away but when I go, there is always something I can help him with.
Ad I said. I realized I can’t have an opinion because my experience is old.
With that said following your tools analogy, and based on that old experience. imagine if over time, your tools became slower and slower until someone came to do maintenance and mine didn’t. Or if when you were closing shop for the day, the tools started updating and you couldn’t close the tool box.
Now, based on what other people are saying, imagine that every now and then your tools at home stopped to play an ad for more tools.
You wouldn’t see this from corporate tools because someone else takes care of it and it doesn’t show ads.
By the way. I used Windows really well (since the early days) so I could call myself an expert at the time. In my early life I was the one behind the scenes ensuring people could work seamlessly. I never really liked it the way I like Linux.
So no, not all tools are the same. But if you like yours, all the best.
I left before the ads era. That’s sounds awful. I’ll search to see how they look.
You mean my distros?
Different distros are the best for different purposes.
My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.
My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.
My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.
My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.
My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.
Etc.
And the rub should be radial, not circular.
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