Anonymous, please – and I wouldn’t mind if you trimmed it down to emphasize this or that feature (if you decide to use any of this for the website).
Oh! May I ask if there are features that you and the other devs are proud of, but that other people rarely or never mention?
Background: Someone on another forum (maybe the Mabox forum or some Linux-ricing reddit post) mentioned “Big Linux Wallpapers” – so at first I thought it was a wallpapers site.
The first cool thing is that when I visited the Big Linux website, it detected my location and auto-translated itself. Also, what the website had to say about the distro convinced me to give it a try.
The wallpapers are cool and the avatars are amusing. The animations on the login screen are also cool (dust motes, shooting stars, mouse-trail). I love the Big Linux theming and the layout selector. The Modern layout is very close to how I would set up KDE anyway (in my case, just a small dock in the upper-right corner with only the essential icons showing). Also, it seems we agree that Gnome-calculator is the best-looking one.
The AppImage integrator is cool, as are the .DEB and .RPM installation-attempters/advisers.
As a hobbyist musician, it was cool to see that some of the setup steps for that had already been done (e.g., realtime privileges already set up for me, and “noatime” in /etc/fstab for all the volumes/subvolumes).
That Timeshift is already set up to do a snapshot right after installation, and daily afterwards, is also cool.
I really like how the Big Linux Store and Updater work, especially the option to include or exclude the AUR, Flatpaks, and Snaps from searches, as well as the capability to update packages from all of those sources at the same time.
Also, I think it’s great that the devs have accessibility in mind when putting together this distro.
