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[–] quink@lemmy.ml 85 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

I'm thinking he might be happier with Noridian, ZephyrOS, Sylvanix, or AetherForge.

I myself have been trying neoNova, specTRAos, and VortexLinux and they're all pretty good.

...

All of these are made up, I think, I just can't cope with everybody and their dog still rolling their own distros (and alternatives to GNOME 3, thank goodness for KDE), even after 25 years of observing it happen over and over again.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 42 points 3 weeks ago

I'm saving your comment to name the next seven distros I make

[–] Lemzlez@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Those are so legit sounding I didn’t even realise until the second part of your comment those weren’t real.

Granted, I just slap kubuntu on everything because I’m used to managing ubuntu servers and like kde, so my distro knowledge is limited, but still

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Poorly, Kubuntu uses the broken Plasma 5.27 for a while until the next release afaik.

Really that was kind of the plasma guys fault, but Plasma 6.0.2 or so was really stable. Perfect LTS candidate. Then the new features came in, now it is stable again (on Fedora).

I used Kubuntu and the outdated Plasma and many packages were annoying. Nowadays snaps, and removed base packages.

[–] Lemzlez@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I looked into distros using plasma 6 for a bit, but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. It’s also a not trivial boot setup (dual boot with w11 and bitlocker + LUKS + secureboot) and the (k)ubuntu installer just handled it flawlessly (meaning not having to enter my bitlocker key on every boot)

Works fine for me (except some weird locale issue, but I knew that in advance)

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

CentOS Stream 10 will likely use Plasma 6. That will be great.

They always add features and in Fedora it is a bit breaky breaky again. After a few minor updates its fine again, and just getting better.

Just the icons are missing I think, then it would be a great LTS.

Kubuntu uses Calamares, which is a nice installer. But I managed to wipe a drive once! Because by default it loses the destination drive selection, I went back to check if everything was fine and it selected my main drive again, I continued without noticing. woops!

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's broken about it? I use Kubuntu and everything is working fine.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used CentOS stream with Plasma 5 and there were a ton of bugs.

I myself reported over 200 plasma bugs and all recent ones were only fixed in 6. I am on Plasma 6 since half a year or so, so no idea what exactly that was, but a lot.

Also, Qt5 is EOL.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, well "broken" sounded like, you know, that things don't work.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that a link to see your own bug reports?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Woopsie, yes that is true. I thought that was my user ID

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I was like wow! In so far behind, there is so many new distros!

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Those are not individual random 3rd party distros.

Please read up on that stuff first. I understand how oldschool users find this odd.

  • Fedora is the base distro. Legally restricted, not being able to preinstall crucial components. They also do a bunch of annoying opinionated decisions, like Fedora Flatpaks or Toolbx instead of Distrobox.
  • Fedora Kinoite: the immutable image of Fedora + KDE Plasma. Very barebones, not really user friendly out of the box, but a great distro. As an advanced user I use it daily.
  • uBlue Bazzite and Aurora: take Fedora Atomic desktops, make them compatible with NVIDIA, ASUS, Surface and more. Add a ton of packages, many call that bloat, but it makes stuff work out of the box.

(Btw. great Distro names :D)

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Zephyr is an actual operating system, but it's not Linux

[–] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not all made up though. I've been following this one's mailing list for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_%28operating_system%29