Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014

On 2025-03-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-03-03 1:59 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-03-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-03-02 5:43 p.m., Adison Vohn Caterson wrote:

On 2025-03-02, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 18:44:02 -0000 (UTC), Adison Vohn Caterson wrote:
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With openSUSE today, versus 5 years ago when I last tried it, I don't
notice any difference. Using KDE. There's a Discover Software Center
now.

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I'm running the Fedora KDE spin and it has Discover. I very seldom use it
running dnf or flatpak updates from Konsole. There is a updates available
icon on the toolbar that I don't look at very often, just assuming there
will be updates. dnf is a symlink to dnf5.
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Discover always seemed to take longer to come up and get the job done.

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I prefer also using Konsole zypper up,in commands... faster than YaST or
PackageKit applet(update icon).
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I use Discover to see what's out there.

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Is what's out there any different than what was out there ten years ago?

 
For what I do, Linux was good in 2014. I'm sure there's improvements but
nothing that really caught my attention in the last 10 years.

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The argument here should be that Linux doesn't _need_ to make obvious
changes to the user experience because it has already reached a point
where it satisfies current and new users. That would be a very good
explanation as to why the big changes are under the hood.

I think UI customizations are (for the most part) more important to new
Linux users who are experimenting. For someone like me, I just want the UI
to look and work pretty much the way it did the last release or three
releases earlier. (Small changes don't take too long to get used to. I may
be in the minority here, I don't know.

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