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Levitatingtoday at 12:54 PM1 replyview on HN

Is Linux where it's at?

Maybe with the rise of immutable distributions like SteamOS, Bazzite, GnomeOS and KDELinux.

But the other "user-friendly" distributions are just not good enough for a non-techy.

We need better and more A/B partitioned immutable distributions and we need a new implementation of Flatpak.

I recently had to repair my parents their Linux Mint installation because it powered off during an upgrade. Apt does not handle that well, Linux Mint has no snapshotting, you cannot apt autoconfigure -a through the UI. Also the UI does not explain why the machine is getting hot while it's building dkms modules for an hour.

Just this week I saw someone with Fedora get a buggy graphics driver that made the whole system glitchy, they had to downgrade the kernel.

The week before I had to repair a manjaro installation from a friend because getting nvidia to work on ArchLinux isn't trivial even if Manjaro pretends it to be.

To be frank, desktop linux is still in a pretty bad state.


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spidermonkey23today at 1:04 PM

I think it's equally likely a windows update breaks a family owned computer and the solution isn't clear to them eg reinstall drivers directly from Vendor.

I'd also rgue Mint is easier to navigate than Windows with it's 3+ different context menus and baked in ads.

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