People who review Linux distros....here's what I think is important for a linux distro:
Look and Feel. How flexible the desktop is and if it is consistent. PoP OS for example, looks great. Same is Deepin. Or Elementary. Even Plasma. But start installing QT/GTK apps and you'll see that they do not respect the theme at all. So they are very inconsistent. Gnome is also not flexible out of the box, so this is a minus. Plasma is too complex and can be overwhelming. So theme dark/light mode, and accent colors, are cool, and yet pointless when they can't change the theme for half of all apps...
Apps installation and availability. Can this OS provide me with an easy way of installing apps? Do I have access to most Linux apps via the "software center"? Again, Ubuntu and the like, provide a nice "software center" but you won't find that many apps there. So that's a big minus.
Dealing with files. People wanna click their videos, documents, photos and the like, and have them open with the proper app. How are these managing it?
How's the internet experience. Like what browser do they use and such. Because the internet will be the most used part of a computer, most likely. And the internet is full of ads and trackers. Is the browser protecting the users from these!?
Backups and stability. How stable is a system and how are they dealing with the backups. Is it easy to backup your system and files, then restore? With linux you kinda need a good backup and restore system.
So yah, Linux distros should showcase more than how pretty they are and that on the surface with their default apps. People who make such linux videos should look deeper.
I challenge them to look at TROMjaro - tromjaro.com. All criticism is very much welcomed. We are trying to make TROMjaro score very high on many such relevant points.
TROMjaro's theme and theme switcher works with like 95% of all apps, so it is super consistent. We have 6 layouts for the layout switch. We run XFCE so it is very fast. Speaking of that, Gnome may feel fast at first in a VM and looking at the RAM consumption will not tell you much anyway, but use Gnome for months and you'll see your computer slows down. I have done that.
Back to TROMjaro we also have flatpaks + aur enabled by default, alongside manjaro's repos. So apps' availability is as good as you can get. 1 place to install/remove stuff. No need to use a terminal.
We've also tested TROMjaro with a lot of files: video, audio, text, to make sure they open with relevant apps. And our browser blocks all ads, trackers and sponsored youtube content. Plus more!
Lastly we create automatic system backups before any important system updates.
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Enough with bragging haha. But yah we try to make TROMjaro very good. #tromlive
www.tromjaro.com
Until I had a PC/laptop, I used mostly Ubuntu Linux, and Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. I used it from around 2007 to 2019/2020. The local (Hungarian) Ubuntu community is very helpful, and the hardware support of the Ubuntu Linux is very good, so it worked properly. Nowadays I live alone with multiple disabilities, under the local minimum wage, so I cannot afford a PC/laptop, so nowadsys I do not use a desktop Linux distribution. Just/only Android on my smartphone (Samsung Galaxy A11), which is also based on Linux.
Have a nice day. All the best. Greetigs and much love from Hungary.
you can use F-droid for opensource apps or install opensource OS like linegeos or ubuntu touch
How easy is this when it comes to hardware drivers? Can it find the best ones for my system. Also which browser does it use? can I get Brave running on it. I must give this a try.
yes, yes , yes, flash to usb boot and try it. It is easy and trade-free Tromjaroit uses tweaked firefox , you can use any browser, I use harden firefox Librewolf
Thank you, I will give it a try when I get a chance. I have always wanted to get more into Linux.
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Hello @rmsbodybuilding, this sounds great. I'm knew to the Linux and coding world, but I recently came out of a coding boot camp and we used Ubuntu to code with vs code. Will all these run flawlessly? I really liked Ubuntu but have had a lot of problems of recent with the lts version also.
Currently, I mostly use Xbuntu but occasionally Mint and if I need a 32-bit distro, Debian.
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