Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more” • Hacker News Board

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by NikkiA » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:38 AM UTC

rashkov wrote: post #56

thrower123 wrote: post #19

What is the standard pick these days for a no-frills, stripped back, but still usable Linux distribution? One that doesn't start with much, but isn't boiling the ocean like Arch or Slack if you want to add more? I used to like Xubuntu, but this was like a decade ago at this point.

I’d give Manjaro a try. It’s an arch based distro where they take care of setting up a desktop environment for you, while including a nice install experience. After that, you’re basically in arch land, which is an excellent no-frills stripped back experience, with an unrivaled user-created package repository. Seriously, every time I have to install something on Ubuntu it drives me crazy to have to use whatever out-da…

So much of AUR is broken builds though to make AUR the more painful experience out of the two.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by alpaca128 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:42 AM UTC

knocte wrote: post #76

Keep making the biggest problem of Linux bigger, please... Yeah, this problem is "fragmentation", and it is not solved with "simplicity".

You call it "fragmentation", others might call it "choice".

The main problem with Linux adoption isn't choice - every beginner can easily find out a reasonable distro for starting out - but motivation to do the switch in the first place. Almost nobody is used to Linux and doesn't know a reason to try it. Even limiting the choice to one single distro isn't going to change that.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by alpaca128 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:47 AM UTC

knocte wrote: post #107

nineteen999 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really, there are de-facto standards. If you are a big corporate enterprise, like a bank, the standard is going to be RHEL. If you're conservative organization but don't want to pay for licenses or support, you're probably going to go with a RHEL clone like CentOS, or worse, Oracle Linux. If you're a trendy Web 2.1 startup you'll probably go with Ubuntu or containers of Alpine Linux etc. EDIT: source - been doing Lin…

Your comment is the best illustration of what fragmentation means.

Having multiple choices for different purposes is completely normal, even for Windows - or would you install Windows 10 Home on an enterprise server or an IoT device?

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by skohan » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:48 AM UTC

antpls wrote: post #66

What i am looking for is a distro where the only UI is through webpages. I had idea about installing a local Prometheus agent, cockpit and other modern administration tools, but it could'nt match all the features of Gnome 3. Especially, I couldn't find a webtool to manage hardware, such as Wifi, keyboard configuration, display, mouse, etc. Also, a very good, fast, and stable web terminal isnt easy to find

As someone who works in computer graphics this idea makes me sad. I mean I know web is the closest thing we have to a universal interface, and there are a ton of advantages to it, but the idea of moving more toward a world where every single thing you do on a computer has this thick layer of web technologies between the user and the hardware is just depressing. Like why should AMD and Intel even bother innovating if everything is going to be bottlenecked by single-threaded Javascript?

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by antisemiotic » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:52 AM UTC

I was looking for something like this actually, I thought I would finally have to warm up to BSD if I wanted an OS that I have some hope of understanding fully.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by TheUndead96 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:55 AM UTC

Just wanted to say this looks kickass. It is way easier to tear things down than to build them.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by amq » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:57 AM UTC

meuk wrote: post #84

I'm always a proponent of simplicity. Some criticism about the site: What a horrible layout. I zoomed out to 25% (the furthest you can go) and the text is still to big.

I like the layout.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by wiz21c » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 9:01 AM UTC

iguessthislldo wrote: post #61

perl4ever wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is a chopped off head good luck?

France?

Humour de guillotine ! superb !

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by alpaca128 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 9:04 AM UTC

jimnotgym wrote: post #79

Just what we need, another Linux distribution. Spread the effort even more thinly. No thanks

"Fewer distros mean more active developers per distro" is just as much a fallacy as "Less music piracy means higher profits". Many distros exist exactly because their devs don't want to touch something like Ubuntu.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Post by GenericsMotors » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 9:10 AM UTC

antpls wrote: post #66

What i am looking for is a distro where the only UI is through webpages. I had idea about installing a local Prometheus agent, cockpit and other modern administration tools, but it could'nt match all the features of Gnome 3. Especially, I couldn't find a webtool to manage hardware, such as Wifi, keyboard configuration, display, mouse, etc. Also, a very good, fast, and stable web terminal isnt easy to find

This is actually a decent idea as it would make spotting webshite-obsessed hipsters even easier.