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Make a Linux app. Stop making distributions.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (7 children)

WDYM so I shouldn’t make an anime flavored, Arch based distro named Archuwu?

[–] cocolopez 27 points 1 year ago

ETA iso, wen?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UwUntu needs some competition

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can totally picture this. Cutesy sound effects, characters pulling up/down menus, sparkle effects...
Where can I get it?

[–] CatTrickery 10 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Where is it? Give it to me now

[–] uis 6 points 1 year ago

You can make pony flavored Debian based distro named Derpian

[–] PixxlMan 4 points 1 year ago

You should, and you shouldn't let anyone stop you!

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make a Linux app, make a Linux distro, who cares...

How about you just let people do what they enjoy doing.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Make a Linux app, not war.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is obnoxious.

It's also truly terrible at being persuasive.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The “Where to start” section should be a “Not You” meme, with Electron in the middle square

[–] mvirts 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this site insane? On Linux I have access to so many more applications than other platforms. Sorry apple, ios apps repeating the same thing infinitely doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You are comparing Apples to oranges. While it may be true that Linux may have more software available, in my experience macOS has a shit ton of productivity software as well, and many times, due to being for-profit, of higher quality. That's exactly why I've been thinking about giving my own try to making a launcher like Raycast for Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I recently went back to Linux as a daily driver and was blown away how easy stuff like flatpaks made it to do everything I need quickly. That wasn’t the case last time I used Linux for something more than a quick and dirty VM host.

[–] uis 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Electron? Really? At this point you should pick web app.

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[–] GustavoM 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fun and games... until you get lots of "...just like X command?" commentaries from randoms. Until you get sick of such and decide to do something non-productive instead. Unless there is money included in the former.

t. Been there, done that.

[–] aluminium 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its not like there many Windows "Apps" being made. Almost everything these days is web based on the desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

How about instead of making yet another Linux distro, you just make an install script instead? I'm personally more likely to try out an install script over a totally pointless ISO....

[–] CatTrickery 6 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but no AUR mention?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm interested in new distributions, but it really needs to do something new. Different default packages with a handful of custom things on top of an existing distro just doesn't cut it. Give me a NixOS, Puppy Linux, ReactOS(I know it's not a distro) or something else unique. I'm tired of Debian/Ubuntu based distros, if I wanted Debian or Ubuntu, I would use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe we need a new distro that comes with vscode installed so we don’t have to do it!

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