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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What's that one feature you liked so much while distrohopping that you want it by default in all distros? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have always been discovering new things about Linux distros while distro hopping. And when I get something I really like, I just copy the package name and make sure I install it in every distro I use in the future.

Let me start:

Clipboard manager (Gpaste)
KDE connect

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[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd probably say the vast amount of packages that can be installed via the AUR, but since the rising popularity of Flatpak, we're getting incredibly close to this.

My next want would be having the ability to make your system declarative (at least, the initial config) in a fashion that NixOS and Guix do.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I have really come to depend on rolling-release systems. I have a few alliances that run Ubuntu, because of a dependency on vendor packages and insufficient interest in fighting with software+hardware issues, and I hate when I have to deal with them. The paupacy of software, the frequent breakage on release upgrades; I don't know how people who prefer these systems justify how bad they are in comparison to Arch (or Nix, or any other rolling release-based distro).

I haven't yet done it, but Arch is so reliable I'm tempted to create a daily -Syu cron job (or, more precisely, a systemd timer job, because I'm only yet running Artix on a couple of systems). The only thing that gives me pause are the kernel updates, which are frequency and necessitate system reboots.

Those kernel updates really make me wish Linus had focused on a microkernel architecture.

[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Owell1984 @russjr08 Things usually have a .deb or .rpm available which almost always unpack and run with no issue regardless of distro.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 3 points 2 years ago

Oh for sure (and a lot of AUR packages are exactly just that), but nothing beats the simplicity and speed of running a quick sudo pacman -S package_name and then being up and running :)