their os-tree package manager sucks
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
these days I recommend fedora kinoite to beginners from windows.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
You’re not supposed to use that, and in fact, when i give it to beginners, i don’t mention the package manager, I just use discover with flatpaks.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
oh,but flatpacks are missing native hosting on some browsers but its mostly not a big problem and not all apps are on flatpack
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
Nearly everything the average person needs is in flatpak.
ommorsi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s a good distro and it is a lot harder to break on accident, but there are a lot more minor kinks than fedora workstation. It can also get confusing for newcomers on the somewhat regular occasion that you need a non-flatpak package.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
Can you give some examples of these kinks? I haven’t had any issues giving it to beginners.
ommorsi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Just from my own experience, many flatpak apps such as Steam, VSCode, or Kdenlive have a lot of issues, and many other flatpaks are maintained by third parties with poor quality control. This isn’t Silverblue/Kinoite’s fault, but it is still an issue that affects it. For certain machines where drivers aren’t included by default, it requires a lot more troubleshooting to install them compared to Linux Mint’s driver manager, or even just copying a few commands from the internet on a distro like Fedora.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
Ah, the driver thing is mitigated by me doing the installation for them.
As for flatpaks having issues, that makes sense, i try to stick to verified flatpaks and do tell them to avoid unverified ones. I just really haven’t had these problems, have you had them recently or historically?