I used to write Linux reviews for Ars Technica.
This led to this cycle that’s like “Ok, another day, another linux distro” and you get so used to just blowing things away that the idea of long term maintenance isn’t front of mind. And people just start to think that it’s normal that you’re supposed to do this on a regular basis.
You don’t really appreciate it until you’re a few years in. We’re about to turn four years old and my systems are running “fresh install” fresh. This is why we focus on the core audience, this is a marathon not a sprint. Which is weird because they must think we’re brand new or something but in terms of tech years this thing is old lol.
It’s one of the reasons we add a “Forged on” date on the fastfetch, it’s a personal cool thing about your rig that you’re proud of:
But there are some good things to consider. We’ve had an open issue to hide boxbuddy from the UI in non-dx mode. (And it’s old!)) Most new users don’t need to be in there, that’s for linux experts who know they need their old style linux.
But the only way I’d do that is if kept the UI there for people who have it installed otherwise I’d get flogged. Like if you remove boxbuddy the logomenu item goes away, but if you install boxbuddy or distroshelf the menu should be there. Most of our audience is still geeky but most people will just ignore the Containers entry entirely for now.
But also we are not looking to change things, of course I want this but I think we all want a smaller bluefin more for maintenance reasons. But who knows!
The LiveCD work is looking good, it won’t be long.