• halet@programming.dev
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    2 hours ago

    To me, it seemed as if Vanilla OS lost a decent amount of momentum in their transition to Vanilla OS 2. And I’d say they’ve yet to regain what has been lost. I don’t want to sound all gloom and doom, but is it sensible to be enthusiastic about this project’s future at this point? Like, are the developers still as invested, enthusiastic and motivated as they were in the beginning?

    • RalfWausE@feddit.orgOP
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      1 hour ago

      Well, i am in no way affiliated with the developer team or the project in general and yes, there was some time when everything looked a bit… stalled… but at the moment it looks like they got back their motivation.

      is it sensible to be enthusiastic about this project’s future at this point?

      No, absolutely not. The chance that VanillaOS becomes a major distribution in the Linux world is minimal and there is the high probability that they just throw the towel at some point in the future. I mean, its like that time when somebody whose name i cannot remember started a Minix clone just for fun as a hobby project…

      • halet@programming.dev
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        7 minutes ago

        Thanks for the answer!

        I don’t know to what degree it’s sensible to regard the following as a metric. However, it does help in putting things into perspective. My belief is that Vanilla OS is directly competing with the whole uBlue ecosystem, even if one is Debian-based and the other Fedora-based. As such, I am curious to know how the custom image ecosystem of Vanilla OS is. Like, does something like this exist for Vanilla OS? (FWIW, there was another website that made browsing through these a better experience. But, sadly, I couldn’t find it.)

    • RalfWausE@feddit.orgOP
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      21 hours ago

      In general it is -as mentioned by @h3ron@lemmy.zip- an immutable, Debian based distribution with GNOME. It uses a quiet interesting system called ABRoot for doing updates. I use it on one of my spare machines now since they did the switch from Ubuntu base to Debian and honestly i like it.

          • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
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            19 hours ago

            Ah thanks. Now I remember why I never used VanillaOS previously. I’ve been keeping my eye on bluefin-LTS though. Looks like a really interesting project. CentOS Stream based immutable distribution.

    • kittenroar@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      It’s an immutable distro that leverages containers to allow you to install packages from different distros. Further, it provides friendly tools and guis to make this easier than it would otherwise be

      • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        I might actually, I have someone dropping by a spare laptop they don’t want in a few weeks and I was going to toss xubuntu on it kind of by default, but maybe not.

        • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          I’m running Aeon on my main laptop for I think two years now and it’s so nice to just have an updated system automatically after you reboot without doing anything. However Aeon is still in RC stage so there are occasional bugs mainly related to disk encryption since automated tests are not yet implemented. But there are many other options.