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Re: AnduinOS

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Post by the__alchemist »

alerighi wrote: post #141
tombert wrote: post #69

This actually looks pretty neat, particularly the integration with Flatpak. One thing that confused me when I first went to Linux a million years ago was the difference in how you install stuff. With Windows you download an exe file, double click it, next next next finish, and you have your app installed. With Linux, every distro is slightly different and it's almost never quite as straightforward to people. I think…

Honestly, the fact that to install software you have to go on a site, download an installer, and run it, is one of the reasons why I don't like Windows. Not only that thing is time consuming and cannot be easily automated, but it's error prone, you are likely to find in the first Google results not the official website of the software but some other site like Softonic that with the software also installs bloatware/ma…

Anecdote: Most of the software I use isn't available in `apt`, or the version there is dated. I prefer to get software from its official source, not a third party I don't know will have the current or any versions. And, there is more to software than free/OSS.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by the__alchemist »

razemio wrote: post #129
mrheosuper wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen many times in Linux, the version in app store is different from its website(usually outdated).

Yes, this makes sense, since most distros use a "standard release" system. The intention behind it is to keep your OS stable and only apply security patches at some point. If you want to have a system with always the newest software, you need to use a "rolling release " system. I think Arch Linux is the most popular (arch user btw). This is much more fun, if you know what you are doing. Otherwise you will end up with…

I think this is a conflation of the OS with the software a user is running on it.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by Hasnep »

spjt wrote: post #171
ginko wrote: post #155

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To be an independent distro it should at least have its own package manager.

The last thing the world needs is another Linux package manager. F-Droid uses apt and it could hardly be considered Debian. It's an interesting question though, that I haven't thought about. At a minimum I'd say that it should have some sort of coherent goals and philosophy, its own package repository , and should not be replicable from its parent distro with a script to install/remove various packages. The last one…

> F-Droid uses apt

I think you mean termux

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by byproxy »

KetoManx64 wrote: post #90
tamimio wrote: post #77

I have been distro-hopping since probably around 2004, whenever now someone is asking me what to recommend as a Linux, it’s as follow: - Entry level and everything you will ever need, stable, etc: Mint - Feeling adventures: go with arch or some of its arch-based distros. - Used linux before: NixOS.

Hard to recommend Nix now with how deep a hole they've dug for themselves with their leftist politics, banning of users for their political views and forcing the founder to leave the project over politics. Nix logo is now officially LGBTQ colors according to them.

What's leftist about supporting the LGBTQ community?

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by [deleted] »

astrange wrote: post #64
zamadatix wrote: post #49

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The last thing I'm going to care about comparing distros is whether they used the same naming pattern as Microsoft instead of Apple. To give credit to their author, it sounds like their name really is Anduin Xue and this is their OS, not that they intended for it to sound confusing. Not all that different than how Debian was named, beyond including OS at the end. https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about

The same naming pattern as Microsoft? Like a distro named Linux for Workgroups Lync 365?

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Re: AnduinOS

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Post by popol12 »

dartharva wrote: post #176
rtpg wrote: post #158

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This is Yet Another Example of people just refusing to use Plasma despite Plasma being _so much closer_ to Windows. Please people! KDE/Plasma gets you to something Windows-like! You don't have to use GNOME!

Yeah but Plasma is buggy and doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of apps like GNOME does.

When was the last time you tried it ? What do you mean by "a comparable ecosystem of apps" ? Which apps would you miss on a KDE install ?

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by zamadatix »

zem wrote: post #53
zamadatix wrote: post #49

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The last thing I'm going to care about comparing distros is whether they used the same naming pattern as Microsoft instead of Apple. To give credit to their author, it sounds like their name really is Anduin Xue and this is their OS, not that they intended for it to sound confusing. Not all that different than how Debian was named, beyond including OS at the end. https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about

I think the gp is complaining specifically about the "OS" bit; that makes it sound like a new operating system rather than a derivative linux distribution

The points are are the same specific topic. A distro is a superset of the OS bit and the latter is rarely distributed without the additional software, documentation, and configuration that make up a distro so, to me, it's more than fine to me to include OS in the name. Even to switch between one Debian derivative to another it's extraordinarily rare to not reinstall the OS as part of that swap, so why not name the whole solution according to what it includes?

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by popol12 »

the__alchemist wrote: post #181
alerighi wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, the fact that to install software you have to go on a site, download an installer, and run it, is one of the reasons why I don't like Windows. Not only that thing is time consuming and cannot be easily automated, but it's error prone, you are likely to find in the first Google results not the official website of the software but some other site like Softonic that with the software also installs bloatware/ma…

Anecdote: Most of the software I use isn't available in `apt`, or the version there is dated. I prefer to get software from its official source, not a third party I don't know will have the current or any versions. And, there is more to software than free/OSS.

I switched to an Arch based distribution and it's night and day. Almost everything is available through the AUR, you even have the choice to rebuild a package or to use a pre-compiled one. I'll never go back to Ubuntu and apt.

Oh, and it's a rolling release so my install doesn't break every 2 years with the new LTS upgrade.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by mfro »

dartharva wrote: post #176
rtpg wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is Yet Another Example of people just refusing to use Plasma despite Plasma being _so much closer_ to Windows. Please people! KDE/Plasma gets you to something Windows-like! You don't have to use GNOME!

Yeah but Plasma is buggy and doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of apps like GNOME does.

I would argue GNOME doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of apps to KDE...

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by 4ggr0 »

kamranjon wrote: post #84
sangeeth96 wrote: post #57

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ex-Microsoft engineer: https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about#:~:text=I%20chose%20to...

wow that timeline is a bit of a roller coaster: "In 2022, my project HowToCook became enormously popular on GitHub, causing me to spend significant time maintaining it. Unfortunately, my relationship with Lily changed. Her arrogance and disrespect led to us breaking up. I learned that people change." ... "After moving my account and files to Suzhou, I explored GPU computing, built a Boeing 737 simulator in Suzhou Cen…

i must say i'd be slightly offended if my current SO slammed me on their public about page, lol.
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