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Hey just to let you know since the departure of Ikey from the Solus Project, there new website is:

https://getsol.us

Cheers and thanks for the page,

I was confused, because I did not know "as they come" is the equivalent to "rolling release". IMHO, you should differentiate more here:

• "as fast as possible" = rolling release = e.g. Arch Linux
• "fast updates" or "usual" = regularly upgrades and relatively fast in-app updates = e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu (6-month upgrades are ok IMHO)
• "slow" = e.g. Debian

There's no documentation in the JS librehunt...

Good job on your site! I think one question that might be good to ask users looking for a distro is what level of access they want to non-free programs/drivers/codecs--out of the box, optional, or not allowed. Partly because some people have strong feelings on the subject and partly because it's a good thing to point out to inexperienced users so they don't pick a distro and then be confused about why for instance videos aren't working in their browser.

feedback from @KillYourFM on twitter

feedback from email

Ubuntu is seen as 5-6 different distros in LibreHunt, polluting the distro list.
A solution would be to see multiple spin offs / desktops per distro, by introducing a "based on" tag in the database

currently, MX Linux, Zorin OS Lite

been a year since someone asked lol

change GitLab references to GitHub

For DIY distros such as Arch.

Hey, @aviwad thanks for awesome tool I would like to translate this project to spanish.
Maybe do you have any suggestion about any technology compatible with this project to review it?

Are you interesting on this feature?. Do you like if I add this feature?

Twitter feedback:
Hi Avi! A suggestion, please: change either the question text in the "Appearance" question to be clearer, or change the answer blocks to something like "More standard look" and "Unique special look" because right now, I had to read it twice because I got confused reading it, and then just assumed that "doesn't matter" = "more standard look." Thank you! :-)

If I want to fix about a distro, it seems I have to dig into this file: librehunt.js

Then all I see is just a big file with binary options in an array. I have no idea what aligns to which option, what I have to change to check it etc. (sorry, but here are really some code quality improvements, needed)

Please ease contributions! This needs some contributing doc, and preferably a different format (JSON?).
And explanations for each option.

Feedback from email

At this moment Libre Hunt does not take into account language support. I was looking for a distribution suitable for the family. Because of that I prefer a distro that fully supports Dutch. Not all choices do that.. Would be nice if that was selectable

Hey, I just looked over a video about LibreHunt on LinuxForEveryone's YouTube channel, and realised that Feren OS has information that is now relatively outdated.

Therefore, I thought I ought to mention that Feren OS has had a major update which changes a lot of aspects about the OS which may invalidate your current information.

You can find the latest version of Feren OS here: https://ferenos.weebly.com/

Feren OS is also now based on Ubuntu (excluding Classic), in case you mention bases.

Lastly, you can now find the proper Feren OS logo on the Press Kit page on the website (Help -> Press Kit).

Kind regards,
The Feren OS Dev

Elive is a "different", lightweight distro using Enlightenment. The stable is very out of date (debian wheezy) but extremely polished (so best as a demo not a daily driver imo) but the beta is rock solid and looks pretty nice, especially if you're into retro stuff. :)

You get this e.g..

Problem: The user has to remember what they selected for each criteria.

Proposed solution: Instead of showing just "match/not match" please show the criteria again, i.e. what the distro is like.
Then just show the tick or so next to it, if it matches.

Here is a mockup, how I would like to see it, e.g.

Maybe you can drop the something: yes syntax altogether, and just say "Touch supported ✅".

And in case of the user choosing "I don't care", you may just show no icon at the end altogether.

More mail feedback

IMHO you should remove that.

It's just that if you want extreme security, there are really not a lot of options. And if a user selects this (and they are a whisleblower or so 😮) they really should not choose any other criteria over their decision of a secure distro.

IMHO, in such a case it is only reasonable to recommend distros like Qubes OS or Tails. See computefreely's category on security.

Remember: If users choose this, they may be in bigger troubles than whether their "old hardware" works. It either works or not.

Currently the string we see is:

All distros matching even a little of what you said are here, ordered ascending to what is the most similar to what you wanted to what is the most dissimilar

I don't understand what this means. Did you mean to say "ascending from" instead, meaning that we see the most similar ones at the top? In that case, maybe "descending" would be better, as in descending from peak similarity?

right now the distro data is a shitstorm filled with weird 0's and 1's in arrays buried inside arrays, all generated from an sqlite file. this legacy needs to die

• from mail from feren OS dev

Special distro case, as it comes with KDE in the installation CD but doesn't install any default desktop.

Like the title says.
I find that I, or anyone who I recommend this tool to, seldom exclusively want either only a customized desktop or not. More often than not, this selection does not matter.

Thanks!

Instead of the default Bootstrap fonts, use Cantarell.

Feedback from email

(check gmail, Mr. Said can help with arabic translations)

This seems to be the priority, which is evaluated.

I personally e.g. do not agree popularity is listed so far at the end. (and about the security thing I've written in detail here: #20)

So maybe you can show a drag- and drop selector at the end, and then let users sort items in the priority? (i.e. like "How important is that feature to you?)
You can add a reasonable default there, of course.

I would think Garuda linux be a good thing to add its really a good distro

I've opened several issues already, but I want to clarify some and sort them:

• in the end, show criteria, so I can re-evaluate whether it is really what I chose: #18
• maybe remove some serious questions from the poll altogether: #20
• provide more options than just boolean things: #21
• (this would be great, but I know quite hard to do) let user choose their own priority: #22
• contribution to that distro list/maintainance is really hard: #16

Also, in general, I think the evaluation is quite simple (you choose beginning from the priority, don't you?).
Maybe you could possibly better assign points to each distro for each criteria and then sort it based on these points?

A page for mentions, such as articles/videos LibreHunt has been mentioned, to keep the news page only for updates (although no one ever looks at these pages haha)

use the distros only computefreely have, and show the computefreely pages for all of them

Some things I don't agree on:

• Extreme security: I have selected "No extreme security", so I assume this here categorizes it as "Fedora has an extreme security."
  I don't think this is true, it's just a usual GNOME desktop/distro etc. Qubes OS would be "extreme security" for me.
• Touch support. Fedora with GNOME has excellent touch support (I use it like this). For this here, I've selected "no, I don't want touch" however, so I am surprised it is still a match. Or does it just show "extra features" such as touch support, as "matches"?

Qubes has XFCE for the default, and and KDE/i3 for alternatives. Knoppix doesn't come only with LXDE but also KDE and GNOME