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I 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.
by WillAdams 3y ago
I 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 3y 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.