Elements Order

[Malix-Labs]

Currently, there is no defined order algorithm

The elements seems randomly ordered

I think it would be a good idea to define an element order, and state it, even if it stays "random"

Algorithm Choices

• Alphabetical
• First release date
• Popularity
• Random

Steps

1. [ ] Define Order Algorithm
2. [ ] Re-order elements

[Malix-Labs]

Out of the proposed algorithm choices, here is my ordered personal preferences:

1. Popularity
2. Alphabetical
3. First Release Date
4. Random

[Dvlv]

Whilst Popularity makes sense in theory, it's essentially arbitrary, because unless someone keeps track of every immutable distro, project, and community, they can't know how popular everything is.

I personally only keep up with Fedora Silverblue and Aeon, so I have no idea how popular VanillaOS or ChimeraOS are, for example.

From my (biased) point of view, as long as Fedora Atomic (and uBlue), Aeon, and Nix are the top 3, I don't really mind what the order of the rest are, so feel free to re-order them if the randomness bothers you.

[Malix-Labs]

Hello again @Dvlv !

Whilst Popularity makes sense in theory, it's essentially arbitrary, because unless someone keeps track of every immutable distro, project, and community, they can't know how popular everything is.

Indeed Maybe there would be a way to track the popularity with statistics, but I'm not aware of it.

From my (biased) point of view, as long as Fedora Atomic (and uBlue), Aeon, and Nix are the top 3, I don't really mind what the order of the rest are, so feel free to re-order them if the randomness bothers you.

From there, I feel like popularity ranking should be avoided, unless we find a way to make it objective rather than subjective and arbitrary

The only statistic source I know of is DistroWatch, but measuring the popularity of a distribution the amount of click on that website is definitely not good enough

Maybe we should temporary eliminate that ranking algorithm choice for now, What do you think ?

[Dvlv]

Maybe we should temporary eliminate that ranking algorithm choice for now, What do you think ?

I don't see any need to make an official rule about where contributors should place things. This repo isn't exactly receiving hundreds of contributions, and I wouldn't want to make contributing too complex and put off people who wish to add things.

If you want to re-order things, feel free, as long as you leave the aforementioned three at the top.

[Malix-Labs]

About distributions, the base and the atomic tool used is also an important metric

[Malix-Labs]

Maybe a table would be great for certain categories