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Alright, let's get to the elephant in the room (Distrochooser's questions).
I'll go over every single question and offer my feedback.archinstall
while the latter is basically the same but with a GUI, then for the new user we would always want the GUI-based, right? Alright, as for the choice that remains... I actually don't know why either one would be necessarily preferred over the other. Being able to choose sounds good, but what actually do we get to choose? This question is honestly too vague for me without grabbing any installer with it. I wonder if you think the same... Verdict: I, personally, don't understand the use (case) or what it tries to achieve. Pointless.sudo apt/dnf/zipper install name-software
shouldn't be too much to ask. Verdict: Pointless.Alright, so let's make up the score:
As you should be aware, I wasn't as fire-y in the second half as I was in the first. This might be related to tiredness etc. Regardless, as it stands Distrochooser asks 8 questions too many that are not only pointless, but for their presence they also are misleading; thus they're ultimately bad. Two questions deserve a lot more love for what they're capable to bring to the table and one might argue that their current presence is nothing but a disservice to them. Finally, the remaining 3 questions... Surely, we should be able to ask those through a bot/template, right? Wouldn't that be a lot better and more efficient?
And we haven't even touched upon the myriad of questions that should be asked instead. Security vs Convenience? Which software they intend to use and if they've been able to actually find alternatives for those that simply aren't supported on Linux? Automatic upgrades in the background vs deliberate updates?^[3]^ Etc...
Thanks for the thoughtful response, but I disagree with a lot of things you said. I could quote everything I disagree with and write a paragraph, however it would be a meaningless endeavor as a moderator looking at the post would probably decide against adding distrochooser to the sidebar - regardless of my opinions.
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P.S thanks for teaching me a new thing: XY problem :)
Alright, let's first deal with unfinished business.
I agree that DistroWatch is very useful as a more general resource rather than whatever you think Distrochooser is capable of. However, similar to DistroSea, it provides excellent information for anyone that is more interested in a specific distribution. Especially the reviews (by both the site maintainer(s) and visitors) are especially very valuable and the closest thing we have to an aggregated user reviews for distros. For good measure, I'm talking about the content of the reviews not the numerical representation.
I'm so stoked to read these. I genuinely mean this btw*; every time someone informs me on why they disagree with me is an opportunity for me to learn new stuff.
Please do. I mean it.
This is very defeatist of you, though. And FWIW something which I didn't expect from you. If you can even make (just) one person (in this case, perhaps me) learn something new, then that should be worth the effort. As you should be aware by now, I'm a lot more active on Lemmy than I should 😅, but this also means that having me (or anyone for that matter) be on your side might just be the thing you need to have this succeed eventually.