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But why do you even need a distro to begin with just to ship certain software set? Install Arch/Gentoo and install whatever is your preferred software of choice
by diath 2y ago
But why do you even need a distro to begin with just to ship certain software set? Install Arch/Gentoo and install whatever is your preferred software of choice, or hell, you can even do that on any other distro.
- WillAdams 2y agoI think it would be an interesting thing for a distro to market/focus on, and it might help to find/identify/encourage additional such software.
- everforward 2y agoIsn’t that basically package groups (or whatever the district-specific terms are)? Eg Im pretty sure Ubuntu Desktop has some kind of “Productivity” package group that includes a word processor and spreadsheets and an email client and what not. I’m pretty sure it’s selected by default when you do a full desktop install. I don’t recall what the actual software is, but I would imagine LibreOffice. I would agree with OP that it doesn’t really make sense for a distro, though. People really want to “make a distro” for some reason so we end up with silly shit like Kubuntu (Ubuntu… with KDE pre-installed). My general rule of thumb is if I can point the distro’s OS package manager to the distro’s upstream (ie Ubuntu for Kubuntu, or Debian for Ubuntu) and everything works or mostly works, it should be a script or apt repo and not a distro. There are way too many “Ubuntu but with a different default DE” distros that could really just be a modified install ISO or post-install script.
- comte7092 2y agoThe value a dedicated distro provides here is that you don’t have to do the legwork to research and find the best tools. As power users we may want to do that ourselves, but a lot of people place value in having that curation done for them.
- cryptonector 2y agoA pkg group is enough.