Hahaha. Wosh!

You have zero ability to infer clear sarcasm.

Stop spreading FUD.

What do you mean no access to encryption of any kind? That phrase makes zero sense.

Of course they want you to use backdoored encryption.

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: set scrollbind

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.

The timing of this post is almost comical.

Maybe a bunch of lemmytors read it and went to try, resulting in an unexpected volume.

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:

• Better auto complete.
• Better scripting language
• Easier to create built in functions
• Nicer prompt configuration

There may be some others but I find Bash clumsy (or maybe I’m just clumsy in bash) when I need to use it.

What i did in my last road trip (19 months) was:

• Configure the camera to record in 1 minute segments
• I wrote a script to use ffmpeg concatenate all the videos for a particular day while accelerating them e.g. 8x

It’s still a large amount of data but I can remember my trip day by day throughout 49,000 Km. (Well, less than that because I wrote the script half way)

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.