Quote:To add a little nasty humor at this point, and probably an unpopular personal opinion: I have never understood the sense of Arch Linux. What is the point of building from scratch anything other than Debian or Slack? If it’s not at the big end, servers, hard science, etc. and it’s not going to be addressed at Windows market share, it just essentially amounts to a hobby. I wish I had that kind of time on my hands. Seems a little vain these days to me, but of course I am old
Arch is a rolling release and that is more difficult to support in user-land than a version-ed release; and for people who never use rolling releases impossible within their business or operational structure.
--that said, a smaller user base would allow a rolling release to be managed, if the updates were controlled, and of course a minimum install within a desktop to which you can add or remove what you want to use does make sense, it shortens the install process and gets you going
For Arch installs there is Architect Antergos or some other distro or installer (Script) available..
I'll agree with what you are saying, and I get it this way, if a Linux distro makes a windows user comfortable by doing what they expect, it might move some users to switch
I actually don't think that happens too much, because it is a lot of trouble trying to make windows user's comfortable: Microsoft doesn't even try. They have no problem changing their interface style/desktop or application options to suit their own agendas, and users just have to suck it up
--adding to training costs and operational delays
I also think it (making the windows norm a default style) distorts a Linux desktop style: for example I would give linuxlite using Administrator instead of Root
And not being clear on the why root, guest login (since windows does always have a guest account, as does Google Android.. not being particulary clear (as Ubuntu does about root, guest login and security) and giving links to something called my computer
I don't think Microsoft uses the My prefix any longer for videos, computer, files a or much of anything..
Linuxlite does have a help page (local html file) and that is useful, it may or may not be as effective as other types; Knoppix had that a long time ago, and it took some time before other distros adopted a help screen display on startup..
I would say that Linux distro for the most part do it (provide a reliable comfortable ) desktop just fine: some being better than others and some being problematic about drivers for vidieo or printers or scanner or supporting certain products or product lines
Even though I have to support windows OS and networks, and find the Microsoft OS changes , especially the MS Office version changes for ? efficiency or whatever just plain annoying
I think we get too involved in application selections: for if everyone just used RTF editing it would be so much simpler and would
make file transfer between OS (Linux, MAC (OSX) and Windows OS##) easy; that's exactly what the ODF should have made possible
or something just as transferable PDF for example