• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Why RedHat? I thought it’s a bad version of Linux and generally disliked (similar to Broadcom and ESXi).
    Why not prefer something based on Debian. As it’s being regarded as very stable I don’t feel like it would interfere with the employees daily job as they don’t need a cutting edge distro like arch.

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      20 hours ago

      So, I love Debian, and it’s an excellent distro.

      But personally something like suse makes more sense, it’s more user friendly and is so German it’s painful.

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        17 hours ago

        Can confirm, I use openSUSE and it’s glorious. AFAIK, they don’t accept donations, but they probably would from someone like the French government.

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          9 hours ago

          It has some wobbly bits, but it really exposes the most powerful parts of linux.

          And it’s still somehow more user friendly than basically anything else in linux. Or windows for that matter.

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            7 hours ago

            Yeah, they did a really good job. I use Tumbleweed on my desktop, Aeon in my laptop, and Leap on my NAS, and I’m testing microos on my VPS. They’re all solid.

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      23 hours ago

      Linux isn’t very good for the casual person at this time, due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation. If people are to be encouraged to adopt Linux, it should be toward distributions that have official technical support.

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        19 hours ago

        due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.

        Oh, let’s all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          19 hours ago

          It’s sufficiently documented.
          It’s just spread across a fuck load of different pages (learn vs. msdn vs. support vs forum).
          And the articles are so unnecessary distributed across those pages. And so much articles are missing links to related topics that it’s comically bad.

          At least the powershell has a partly sound documentation. But very hit or miss.

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            16 hours ago

            Windows documentation is an absolute mess. The only reason you can claim it is “documented” is the sheer volume of users, but that’s not necessarily a good thing when suggested fixes include registry edits, disabling security features, and running everything as an admin.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        Isn’t that the point of donating to it? If the French government wants a specific thing done (say, documentation), they can make the donation go towards that.

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          14 hours ago

          Ideally, that would be part of their initiative. There are multiple angles that can be taken to encourage Linux adoption. Standards for formal documentation and technical support options are two prongs on the same trident.