also if I come back as combative that's not my intended tone. I'm just like, how much failure does i

also if I come back as combative that's not my intended tone. I'm just like, how much failure does it take for people to realize that no one wants a traditional linux desktop any more.

Pez•7/29/24, 9:52 PM

what

Pez•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

i feel like people being here precludes the need to choose?

Pez•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

like maybe they already made their mind up and that's why they're here?

j0rgeOP•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

I was addressing the new user thing

Pez•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

i wasn't responding to you

j0rgeOP•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

like, "starter distros" aren't a thing, and if they are, they shouldn't be

GGorujo-kun just wanted to make sure that we aren't ignoring there are other distros out the...

Kyle Gospo•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

I think the argument is we don't have to ignore them

Kyle Gospo•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

The world has ignored them for 30 years

Pez•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

but also

Kyle Gospo•7/29/24, 9:53 PM

we're here to do something different

Pez•7/29/24, 9:54 PM

i don't see why it's anything to do with us

Pez•7/29/24, 9:54 PM

or why we shouldn't ignore them when we uhh

Pez•7/29/24, 9:54 PM

already made our mind up if we're here

Jj0rge also if I come back as combative that's not my intended tone. I'm just like, how...

Kamquat•7/29/24, 9:54 PM

Some of it is intertia. I will wholly admit that I took a while to even TRY an immutable because I have decades of traditional Linux desktop history and "it works just fine! Why change it!" - then again, I was still compiling monolithic kernels for quite a while after the Linux kernel first got module capability, so maybe I just get stuck in my ways

Jj0rge like, "starter distros" aren't a thing, and if they are, they shouldn't be