maduncle@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 18 days agoUnneeded new distro(s) and their immaturity.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1596arrow-down199
arrow-up1497arrow-down1imageUnneeded new distro(s) and their immaturity.lemmy.worldmaduncle@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 18 days agomessage-square145fedilink
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90arrow-down1·18 days agoI mean, bait aside, creating a new distro with an existing package manager allows you to set up a different set of default packages and even add your own new/updated ones. That’s the value of it there.
minus-squareomgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down4·18 days agoEh I guess, but really just define your own meta packages and use arch 😄
minus-squareTakumidesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·18 days agoTake it a step further and declaratively configure your entire installation with nixos
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·18 days agoBut that doesn’t deserve to count as a separate distro. At best it’s just a variant, like the relationship between Kubuntu and Ubuntu.
I mean, bait aside, creating a new distro with an existing package manager allows you to set up a different set of default packages and even add your own new/updated ones. That’s the value of it there.
Eh I guess, but really just define your own meta packages and use arch 😄
btw
(it was implied 😜)
Take it a step further and declaratively configure your entire installation with nixos
But that doesn’t deserve to count as a separate distro. At best it’s just a variant, like the relationship between Kubuntu and Ubuntu.