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• InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So, I love Debian, and it’s an excellent distro.

  But personally something like suse makes more sense, it’s more user friendly and is so German it’s painful.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can confirm, I use openSUSE and it’s glorious. AFAIK, they don’t accept donations, but they probably would from someone like the French government.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It has some wobbly bits, but it really exposes the most powerful parts of linux.

      And it’s still somehow more user friendly than basically anything else in linux. Or windows for that matter.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, they did a really good job. I use Tumbleweed on my desktop, Aeon in my laptop, and Leap on my NAS, and I’m testing microos on my VPS. They’re all solid.

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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Linux isn’t very good for the casual person at this time, due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation. If people are to be encouraged to adopt Linux, it should be toward distributions that have official technical support.

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  • johnnyb@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    are you suggesting there is documentation for Windows?

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s sufficiently documented.
      It’s just spread across a fuck load of different pages (learn vs. msdn vs. support vs forum).
      And the articles are so unnecessary distributed across those pages. And so much articles are missing links to related topics that it’s comically bad.

      At least the powershell has a partly sound documentation. But very hit or miss.

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      • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Windows documentation is an absolute mess. The only reason you can claim it is “documented” is the sheer volume of users, but that’s not necessarily a good thing when suggested fixes include registry edits, disabling security features, and running everything as an admin.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Regular people don’t read documentation.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.

    Oh, let’s all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the point of donating to it? If the French government wants a specific thing done (say, documentation), they can make the donation go towards that.

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    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ideally, that would be part of their initiative. There are multiple angles that can be taken to encourage Linux adoption. Standards for formal documentation and technical support options are two prongs on the same trident.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or why not SUSE? I forget who owns it now, but at least for a while it was owned by an EU firm.

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