Personally, I'd use something like Flamingo, or Buffalo in go. Something rails-like. Or Django. Either way, the MVP is people submitting reports. So you have a model for devices, that has many reports. People sign up, fill out a form. Adds a report. We can do system specs through parsing something like fast fetch or neofetch.
The rest is just displaying it, just use something like MaterialUI.
However, given I'm pioneering this in an effort to try and promote it to others, I'd like the convenience of looking up any issues I run into in english, because it's just so much more google'able
I'm at the "Installation overview" screen, says Fedora at the top-right, Bazzite Nvidia 40 installation at the top right. I'm jumping between this screen and "Language support" where I can check English but not un-check Dutch (likely because my installation is actually in Dutch, I'm translating what I see)
I just want to invest some care and effort into something that'll "run great out of the box" so I can finally start recommending Linux to people without a disclaimer, and this really feels closest to it
yeah although note if you want some application that is not available as flatpak, appimage or not already included with bazzite it is kinda harder than mint to get it
Personally I'm a bit in between an in-depth technical user and just someone who "uses the PC", I can figure most stuff out from my limited programming experience, but I don't really have a strong computer science background and I'm sort of catching up as I'm getting more and more into techie stuff. Like I'm doing the CCNA off youtube (Network Chuck) to understand networking etc.
I always say: I graduated as a designer, slowly became a web developer, slid into building back-ends and now dev-ops, so I suppose at the time I retire I'll be an embedded systems engineer
But I'm mainly interested in finding the best possible Linux alternative with the least amount of typical Linux-style chafing where jumping into the terminal is the only way to move forward so I can start recommending that to friends and family.
The way MS is shoving AI into every nook and cranny of Windows while barely seemingly having a grasp on its hallucinating properties and "well it works but, yeah it works" really looks like the platform's setting itself up for some high times for cyber criminality old folks can barely keep up as it is, they don't need the latest and greatest, they need to be looked after a bit better.
In that fashion I'm also a bit sorry to see that platforms like MX and openSUSE have amazing click-and-succeed tooling baked in while they could've maybe spent that time and effort making it work a little better across the whole of Linux.
YaST is awesome, I just want that for every disto.
As a distrohopper, I've tried to look at all the distros I use with a similar perspective, in case I ever recommended a Linux distro to a family member. Here's a few things from each: Ubuntu: Ubuntu I would usually say is a great choice, but in my personal experience their new App Center has a lot of issues and has sort of made Ubuntu much more of a hassle to use. Linux Mint: Overall my experience with Linux Mint has been great, the only problem I think is that it looks old. For people who don't mind, that's fine, but for those who do, it becomes a deal-breaker. Pop!_OS: Pop is great, except for the fact that they haven't updated since they've been working on Cosmic. I'm sure it's still fine on the security end, but their packages aren't very fresh. Also, if you're planning to dual-boot, Pop doesn't have a dual boot option in the installer, so you'll need to do that manually. So if you're going to give it to a family member with dual boot, I suggest you do the install for them. Zorin OS: Zorin is extremely old. While I personally have had no issues with this, I've heard people say tat gaming suffers due to the older kernel. I cannot say this has happened for me though. I don't game very much. Manjaro: For God's sake and the sake of all things holy, stay away from Manjaro. Despite people calling Manjaro 'user friendly', it's not 'beginner friendly' in the slightest. It's 'user friendly' for advanced users. Manjaro also has a history of weird bugs, and they have issues with the AUR because they hold back some packages. It's also based on Arch, so you'll need to mantain it, and you can't just install it once and forget about it. Fedora: While Fedora is great, it's also got some issues because of some licensing stuff. So if you're going to use Fedora, I'd say go with Ultramarine Linux, because it's just Fedora but with sane defaults. <-- more below -->