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I like all of the questions it's asking, and appreciate the guidance. One thing that would really polish this off, though, is to put some extra time into the re
by bunderbunder 10y ago
I like all of the questions it's asking, and appreciate the guidance. One thing that would really polish this off, though, is to put some extra time into the results page.
The explanations of what distinguishes each distribution are, to me, a wall of Linux jargon that is all familiar (Slackware was my primary OS for a while in the late '90s and early '00s), but also largely meaningless. From a user perspective, I'm interested in a tool like this precisely because I've got no idea whether I should prefer GNOME or Unity or KDE nowadays, and I don't really care to take the time to sift through the flamewars to find out. So when I'm dropped into the results and the top results are five different flavors of Ubuntu distinguished by what desktop environment they use, and the explanatory text for each largely boils down to, "Portmanteau-of-Ubuntu-and-$DesktopEnvironment is Ubuntu with $DesktopEnvironment", I'm left feeling like the tool has taken me on a short ride around the neighborhood and then dropped me off exactly where I started.