alt Hacker NewsYeah, a general purpose distro would come with a desktop environment and you'd be able to run it on your PC as your main OS. Calling this general purpose is so misleading.
Of course describing reality in titles would have the inconvenience of causing fewer clicks to these articles.
The title on HN could be updated though.
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stuaxo • today at 9:02 AM
When he said "general purpose" I totally imagined a desktop environment.
gunalx • today at 6:45 AM
According to [1] the guidelines explicitly say to keep editorializing to a specified minimum, unless it is spam. Dont know it this title would allow editorialising
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It's general purpose in that it can run any Linux application in numerous different ways, containerized, as a VM, or on specific bare hardware.
You and Microsoft are using the word "general purpose" to mean different things.
This is not generally compatible with different hardware.
Nor does it include things that could be considered applications, like desktop environments etc. It's not designed to be run by an end user on a desktop.