: Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro

A guy who works for the EU has proposed (in his spare time it seems - not in an official capacity) that Europe have its own Linux distro for European public sector use.

The plan is to base this distro on Fedora with KDE Plasma. I suppose Plasma is relatively similar to the Windows desktop, so it should be familiar for public sector employees.

Thoughts?

            • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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              7 days ago

              I expect institutions and corporations to have an IT department that takes care of these things.

              You cannot apply a personal user logic to IT infrastructure of organizations. For such an organization Linux distro the users will never deal with the package manager or any directory outside of /home.

                • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  7 days ago

                  i didn’t say anything towards Debian being good or bad. I don’t know enough about it to make such a judgement. I merely pointed out that ease of maintainability by the end user is not an argument for organizations. As for home use, people who decide to use a Linux distro at home are not the main target here. Again, an organization will make a walled garden for their end users, so similarity ends being a relevant factor past the Desktop GUI. And whether you run Gnome, KDE or a different one does not depend on the distro itself.

            • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
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              7 days ago

              Yes, of course Arch. But ypu’re still dodging my question. You were saying other distributions were close to Corpos compared to Debian. We weren’t talking about the benefits or drawbacks of specific distros

    • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Debian is frankenstein’s monster of half-baked things that falls apart and rots. Add to it absolute absence of any leadership and direction, where even smallest decisions take years (mawk/gawk/nawk), shipping broken packages for years, and so on.

        • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          7 days ago

          Actually you need leadership and direction so you won’t end up in current debian situation where they can’t decide on anything where there is three suites of helper utils that do same thing but can’t actually mandate usage of one. Where apt-get is still shipped ten years after apt becoming default and so on. It’s a mess.