Well, the configuration and state in both cases is all over the place. I admit that since the move to push program directories to /usr and the XDG share/config directories the problem has been largely solved. I only shared my perception when I was learning Linux, which was right after Mandriva came out
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When switching from Windows, it was very confusing to me, that program files where all over the place. It was before (almost) every distro switched to the /usr directory, so it was even worse than it is now. Even now, when I understand more about Linux than before, I still prefer the Windows way.
I think that this hierarchy is nice for people moving from Windows, but experienced enough that they could understand the docs and tweak the OS.
I was actually surprised that this distro was designed with more experienced people in mind, I thought it was for beginners.
First Amarok 3, now this‽
Edit: The previous release was four years ago? I was pretty sure it was abandoned earlier
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?
1·11 months agoThere was the Linux Standard Base project, but there were multiple issues with it and finally it got abandoned. Some distributions still have a /etc/lsb-release file for compatibility.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?
1·11 months agoPeople thought the same about JVM
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•So what ARE the current "good" VPN services?English
0·11 months ago*Mastodon
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Testing PostMarketOS with Gnome on my MS Surface GO 2
3·11 months agoI’m wondering about that too and I think that this question deserves another thread. Maybe that’s because, as there are no (or are there?) PCs with other architectures than x86, vendors don’t see a need for standards like device discovery and UEFI.
Can you make a screenshot?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?
2·1 year agoI didn’t know about the
systemd-runcommand. Do you use it to save the command log? I created a script conveniently namedxwhich opens a file in a default app, in the background, so I can still use the terminal. But then I had the problem with handling logs and this sounds like a perfect solution. Gonna try it today.As for the alias, I wanted to create a pacman-like interface for systemctl, so the commands would be much shorter, but never finished it. For example,
sctl -Eun unitwould be equal tosysyemctl enable --user --now unit
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Linux@lemmy.ml•i will install linux mint xfce instead of xubuntu, what should i know??
8·1 year agoCan you calm down a bit?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Gnome merges XDG session management wayland protocol (but disabled in Gnome 47 by default)
14·1 year agoIs it about restoring window position and size?
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post?English
7·1 year agoAlso, it is inspired by a Polish service, Wykop which developed its specific language
Zephyr is an actual operating system, but it’s not Linux
Heh, I thought about blocking them like a thousand times, but they are sometimes sharing neutral or interesting information so I’m just trying to ignore this type of comments
How is it progressing so fast compared to Servo? Isn’t Servo being developed for a longer time?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action
7·2 years agoI thought for a minute that Linux now panics when trying to play DRM’d content
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - FosstodonEnglish
8·2 years agoEven when you don’t know the language, you can judge if something is an ad just by an overly excited tone of voice. I wonder if someone has tried writing an ad detection algorithm already. It would still be a lot heavier on resources than SponsorBlock.
I don’t know about its derivatives, but Mandriva had something similar.
All of these distros strive to solve the problem with having multiple versions of libraries and programs coexisting without conflicts, but Gobo took a different approach. What Gobo doesn’t do is the declarative system configuration. In Nix you don’t need to worry about breaking your system because you can easily restore the previous version of your config. In traditional distros you would need to set up package manager hooks to make snapshots and create snapshots manually every time before changing something in /etc