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What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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[–] Samueru@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Some defaults I would like to see:

Have zsh as the interactive shell (And also have its dotfiles in a better location like XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh)
Btrfs with compression enabled and subvolumes set. (Maybe also timeshift installed, not sure because not everyone uses timeshift for btrfs snapshots).
ZRAM (With proper sysctl.conf like PopOS does).
Pacman as the package manager with an Aur helper already installed.
No bloat™ preinstalled, nothing of shipping flatpak or snap by default or even a DE. So I can just boot into a tty without having to do the minimal install from zero.
Comply with the FHS and XDG specs (Arch fucking installs packages to /opt and doesnt set ~/.local/bin as part of PATH)
Dont break userspace (arch did this recently with an update to glibc that removed a patch that breaks steam games)

Edit: Also forgot to mention:

Ship x86-64 v3 binaries, common arch, even Gentoo is doing it while on arch you have to use non official repos.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you don't want ANYTHING installed by default you should probably just go for the specialized distros that provide that.

[–] Samueru@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The issue with many of those distros is that it usually means that you have to install everything from 0.

Arch is good at this because the archinstall script speeds it up and you don't have to choose a DE. But with other distros that use a graphical installer, you are forced to use whatever they ship as the default desktop environment.

edit: And holy shit properly configuring Btrfs subvolumes from 0 is something that I tried with voidlinux and I ended up breaking the entire install.

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