November 1, 2025, 8:36pm 1
I think there is room for improvement with the Linux distributions. There seems to be an over-inflated importance on being ‘close to upstream’. Take Arch for example. How many Arch users implement a Mandatory Access Control system? Isolation and sandboxing is already a topic of concern with Linux. “Noob” distros have stronger out of box protection by comparison. You have to be pretty knowledgeable in Linux to secure an Arch system. OpenSuse Tumbleweed has been very hard to like. My OS will lock up and I’m not seeing an obvious cause for this in the logs. Packages get updated practically every day, but they never seem to fix that. If my first foray into Linux are these ‘move fast and break things’ distros, where I have to roll back to an older snapshot b…
November 1, 2025, 8:36pm 1
I think there is room for improvement with the Linux distributions. There seems to be an over-inflated importance on being ‘close to upstream’. Take Arch for example. How many Arch users implement a Mandatory Access Control system? Isolation and sandboxing is already a topic of concern with Linux. “Noob” distros have stronger out of box protection by comparison. You have to be pretty knowledgeable in Linux to secure an Arch system. OpenSuse Tumbleweed has been very hard to like. My OS will lock up and I’m not seeing an obvious cause for this in the logs. Packages get updated practically every day, but they never seem to fix that. If my first foray into Linux are these ‘move fast and break things’ distros, where I have to roll back to an older snapshot because something broke again, I would probably have decided it wasn’t worth the time. Fedora is a bit better in some ways, but I still don’t want to use a ‘testing grounds’ OS for technologies that go to CentOS and then finally RHEL. I would rather be using Alma. Looking at the Fedora forums, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows either. Security fixes are often backported in stability focused distros, like Debian. Your kernel is newer, you’re using some cool new, Rust-based thing…it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. What’s wrong with a distro like Mint or Pop!_OS? Isn’t the big idea to escape the proprietary, data-mining OS matrix?