kasdeya
kasdeya
I feel like a pretty decent metric for the user-friendliness of a Linux distro would be:
- can you install the distro from scratch and play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?
- after 6 months, can you update all of the software and still play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?
at least one of these tests would fail if any of my most common issues with Linux happened:
- display problems
- video card driver problems
- wifi problems
- audio problems
- problems during installation
- DE problems
- updates breaking things
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Light The Unicorn!
LightTheUnicorn@lighttheunicorn.horse@kasdeya The "six month test" is a good one to be honest. It's great if things work out of the box, but if it withstands half a year of software, updates and general crud too that's even better!
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Panda Plenty (Pandamonium)
foxysen@social.mootech.eu
@kasdeya ive been what 10 months or so on Mint so it passed.
Aside from having GPU freezing if hardware video was enabled in browser, but this GPU was a bit weird on Windows too.
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Benrob0329
benrob0329@dice.camp@kasdeya Unfortunately it always seems like at least one of these is a compromise for the other. At best we can minimize each of these by having a little bit of them all.
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@kasdeya is it a binary metric? like, either u can play a video or you can't?
what about antix 32bit? you don't need to open a terminal to watch videos but it's made specifically for PCs so slow they struggle with youtube.
what if a distro shows you what it's doing under the hood by automatically opening the terminal, putting in commands and closing if again when you hit a graphical button?
what if you're made to select your OS in grub? that count as a terminal?
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@foxysen oohh that’s amazing! I definitely want to try Mint once I have the energy to install it on my laptop - or once Arch annoys me enough that I install it anyway lol
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