For example, I’m using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it “friendlier” for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be “the universal operating system”.
I also think we could learn website design from… looks at notes …everyone else.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    Well, it stays in that half installed state and interferes with any other use of the package manager.

    • Oisteink@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      7 months ago

      I might be a special case as I Mostly use Linux for servers. But I have maybe experienced one such case on the last three years on our 50-odd servers

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        7 months ago

        I’ve ran into that with one shitty vendor (I won’t/can’t give any details beyond this) lately. They ‘support’ deb-based distributions, but specially their postinst-scripts don’t have any kind of testing/verification on the environment they’re running in and it seems to find new and exiting ways to break every now and then. I’m experienced (or old) enough with Linux/Debian that I can go around the loopholes they’ve left behind, but in our company there’s not too many others who have sufficient knowledge on how deb-packages work.

        And they even either are dumb or play one when they claim that their packages work as advertised even after I sent them their postinst-scripts from the package, including explanations on why this and that breaks on a system which doesn’t have graphical environment installed (among other things).

        But that’s absolutely fault on the vendor side, not Debian/Linux itself. But it happens.