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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bring back the old xpenguins and xsnow packages in Debian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I believe they are still part of a different package. They aren't Wayland native though so they will use a bit more battery life and won't be able to see wayland components

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I would love to see an ostree-based (immutable) Debian for both stable and unstable.

Aside from that, my nitpicks aren't distro-oriented.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Can we get a free software only version of every distro? That's what I want.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'd love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

NixOS

Mostly perfect in my opinion but it'd be nice if when they renamed options they didn't deprecate the old option names so old configs still worked

[–] Presi300 1 points 9 months ago

I wish Gentoo would make important information like unmasking packages more easily accessible, like directly into the handbook itself so that I don't have to search how to do it every time I need to unmask a package (I always forget how to).

I also wish alpine Linux had an option to use glibc instead of musl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Garuda. I wish the base install of wine actually worked, and that half the packages in chaotic-aur weren't buggy as fuck or just completely non functional.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Slackware: nothing, it's perfect just the way it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I still don't know the technical details between zram and zswap but I feel like fedora should switch to zswap and support hibernation out the box

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