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For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

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[–] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything from each other. Almost no distro will ever be extremely effective at doing anything that is literally impossible on any other distro.

[–] machineLearner@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You might like vanilla then. It has containers for each distro, I'm pretty sure.

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably the start menu back to what it should be. Back with distro windows xp.

Wait no nvm wrong community.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Oh you can complain about both. Use WinXP-tc with XFCE to get a pixel perfect clone of the XP start menu. Then start complaining that distros are moving to Wayland where WinXP-tc won’t work.

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