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Where LiMux failed, GendBuntu succeeded (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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I've seen some people point to LiMux as a failure because they switched back to MS, but where LiMux failed GendBuntu (a version of Ubuntu adapted for use by France's National Gendarmerie) runs on over 100,000 stations and is going strong.

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[–] rirus@feddit.org 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

LiMux failed because Torvalds didn't bribed the Mayor and the ruling Conservatives, like M$/Gates and Balmer personally did.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A big part of LiMux failing was the UI. It was simply ugly and complicated. People simply did not want to work with it.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

UX is everything

[–] bluemoon@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

i wonder why big operating systems like Debian-derivatives are used instead of smaller ones like TinyCore linux. smaller codebase ought to be simpler to maintain completely?

[–] rirus@feddit.org 7 points 22 hours ago

They are more commonly used and thus have a large community and documentation and packages also from commercial vendors.