that would be fun and easy to use but that would mean no neofetch no terminal games no ls no vim no flatpak sadly would that be a good distro? i know about chromeos and android and i know linux users don’t usually recognize those as linux distros but i do honestly

  • @thejml@lemm.ee
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    226 months ago

    I’d rather have one with no window manager than one with no terminal.

    • Luffy
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      Ive actually tried it some time ago, its not that bad. If you fing some way to switch tty inside cage (app for starting GUI apps without Window manager) it could be a pretty competent alternative to them

  • edric
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    You literally use Mint without ever opening the terminal if you’re just a regular/casual user. The update manager notifies you of new updates and you can use the gui.

  • @beirdobaggins@lemmy.world
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    I feel like you think the terminal is just for installing updates…

    The linux terminal is why I use linux.

    vim, diff, cat, grep, sed, awk, and sort are so freaking powerful and useful.

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    no flatpak

    Erm, no? There are many GUI Software managers with Flatpaks Integration, for example GNOME software or KDE discover

    which would just tell you when no update

    About every major non diy distro does that

    that would be fun and easy to use

    For me at least it wouldnt be. If you dont want the terminal, just use something like mint, it has a GUI for everything you need

    Also, why have no terminal? Its always a good backup for if you GUI stops working, and if you want GUIs for everything, that dosent mean the terminal has not to be there

  • Chewy
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    Thanks to image-based distros like Fedora Atomic, I skipped the asking to update step. They download and apply updates in the background, and then the new image gets selected on next boot.

    Given Fedora doesn’t do major changes in point releases, nothing breaks (until I do a manual upgrade to a new (half-)yearly major release).

    Not having a terminal does not make sense (unless in a business context). For some people (my mum) it’s as if it doesn’t exist anyway, so why remove it.

  • Julian
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    46 months ago

    No flatpak? Who uses flatpak in the terminal?

    Also pretty much every distro has some sort of GUI update manager.

    • Luffy
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      Or how we say in germany: bischte deppert?

  • @solrize@lemmy.world
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    What does that even mean? But yes lots of us run Linux on servers. Just ssh in. Or even just wipe the VM and launch a new one if you want to upgrade.