I’m looking for a distro to contribute to finally make 'year of Linux desktop, to happen. For me, I see that as full UI/UX behaviour that behaves almost identical to Windows/Mac (eg no middle click to paste).
Which distro comes closest to it?
I’m looking for a distro to contribute to finally make 'year of Linux desktop, to happen. For me, I see that as full UI/UX behaviour that behaves almost identical to Windows/Mac (eg no middle click to paste).
Which distro comes closest to it?
Bazzite is the correct answer. Or steam OS. Anything immutable. Mint is not the right answer.
There is no right answer. While I love immutables, they bring their own set of problems to the table.
Sure but they answer the question correctly, whereas alternatives don’t.
It’s not about what you prefer, it’s about what meets the answer to their question most appropriately.
They are asking for a 100% gui/ui experience with not having to access the terminal.
The right answer to send someone to in that case with the ecosystem we have, is immutables. That what they are for.
They said GUI everything AND “just works”. I was more so referring to the latter.
My point is that nothing “just works”. With immutables, your system is less likely to break after updates, but introduce other headaches.
On a traditional distro, you can use pretty much any format. Traditional packages like deb/rpm, flatpak, snap, Nix, distrobox, etc.
That’s not the case for immutables. Bazzite primarily uses flatpak, but (1) not all apps are available as flatpaks, (2) not all apps work well as flatpaks, like IDEs, (3) apps may have permission issues that require some know-how and tweaking to fix. Bazzite also comes with Homebrew and Distrobox, but (1) Homebrew doesn’t have many GUI apps for Linux, (2) apps may not behave as expected in containers and don’t integrate as well. Finally, as a final resort, there’s layering but that (1) requires the terminal, (2) may not be allowed in the future as Universal Blue is going more bootc native without rpm-ostree support, (3) may not even run Fedora in the future if they like their “distroless” version more.