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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).

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What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by the_crab_man to c/[email protected]

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Personally, I'm looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE's port to Qt 6.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Nix (OS, the package manager, and the language) having excellent and exhaustive documentation.
It being so easy to use that my grandmother could use it. Heck, a GUI to handle packages would be amazing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I dont think thats really the goal here. NixOS is not designed to be used by your grandmother. Better Documentation would sometimes be nice though.
By the way, there already is https://github.com/vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably not the goal, but a NixOS-based begginer distro could be great, with one app to install all your package and one app to manage all your settings. (I personally really like the idea of having app settings in the "general" settings app). But probably the killer advantage of NixOS is that it's really hard to break and really easy to fix, which is important for a distro aimed at the general public.