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What, oh what is this doing on HN? I'm sorry but we do not need to encourage people to spend their time making "distros" (aka, default packages and a theme), or promoting the use of such things.

No security team, no discussion of what package set they use.

Come on, this is cringe. Their HIDPI functionality will delete your $HOME and their backup strategy doesn't backup $HOME. https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/after-deactivate-hidpi-my-ho...

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be overly dismissive but if anyone is spending more than 20 seconds considering ever running something like this, please get better at rapidly evaluating information.

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I feel you are projecting a lot about why or how people would test this distro.

Playing with something in a VM or on some laptop for a couple of hours for fun is perfectly fine. Even if you are playing with broken or "not good" software.

Also, how polished should something you spend your free time on be before you allow the public to take a look? I have never not tried this distro myself and not read it's documentation. It might claim to do things it shouldn't.

Nobody's making you use it and calling somebody's work "cringe" is pretty rude

I think a bug that causes loss of personal data when changing a display setting warrants a "cringe"-type flag. It's a pretty egregious bug to have.

Nothing on their site says "This is not ready for daily use", but bugs that wipe out my home directory when touching common, and unrelated settings, definitely make me think this is a pre-alpha type project.

Cringe might be a loaded term, but it's appropriate.

It's just completely unproductive. I don't see an issue with pointing out the flaws in the distro, but calling it "cringe" does nothing to your comment besides devalue it. Why not use a descriptive word like "insecure"?

Maybe security isn't their focus? Just look at https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/garuda-boot-options...

YOLO!1!!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26005872

I've been using EndeavourOS ever since Antergos shut down and never had a single issue that I wouldn't have in other distros. Isn't the point of Linux that anyone can do whatever they want with it? If you think that's a bad thing, you might have a better experience with closed source operating systems.

I agree, but for different reasons. In comparison, the GoboLinux post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26002251 ) links to the homepage that immediately tells me "this is what this distro does." In comparison, Garunda doesn't tell me this, all it does is prompt me to download it. Even their about page is "well, these people worked on it." I don't care who is responsible, I want to know why this exists, what problems it solves, etc. So then I go to their forum, and there's a pinned faq. Go there - still nothing, just more things prompting me to download their version. Get this out of here.

Did you even scroll? It's all there!

Alright, you're correct, but it definitely shouldn't be a footnote. So I guess it's arch linux plus a few gui tools that other linux distros don't include by default, and maybe geared to gaming? I guess at this point, I'm confused why this isn't just a "configured arch" wiki to optimize for gaming, and maybe mention custom aur packages. I don't really understand repackaging arch linux, the whole point is to tinker and customize.

For some that seems too troublesome. Shrinkwrapped convenience it is! Following your argument to the end, all distributions are superficial, since there is http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ and anything more than customised recipes in some wiki are just a useless waste of effort ;->

edit: See also 'A Generation Lost in the Bazaar' by Poul-Henning Kamp https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

I totally get your point, I'm not trying to be difficult, but I think your conclusion of my argument is much more extreme than what I'd recommend people to do with arch.

It's O.K. I know I tend to be difficult, contrarian, whatnot else. At least sometimes, not always :)

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