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Thoughts on openSUSE Micro OSs Kalpa and Aeon? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ThreeEelsInABaseballJersey@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/opensuse@lemmy.world

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Read a distrowatch review that dropped earlier today discussing the two of them and kind of tears them apart: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250714. I used both a year or so ago and Aeon seemed to perform well enough, but I was pretty disappointed with Kalpa. What are folks experiences with them and how do they compare with something like Fedora Atomic Desktops if you have experience with both?

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[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used Aeon from RC2 to RC3 iirc. Until the introduction of encrypted drives mashed my system and i suddenly had secure boot key problems or something. It was a year ago so I can’t remember exactly, but it worked beautifully until then.

So I moved on. But Aeon is really good, probably the best immutable desktop experience, if you can stomach GNOME as a daily driver (I couldn’t wait to jump back to plasma after I lost my Aeon setup). Richard Brown is opinionated but generally sensible about its development too.

I haven’t kept up with Kalpa development since last year, but the last I tried it was the same problem it’s always had; lack of development. It’s was years behind Aeon then and unless things have changed it’ll have likely gotten worse. The problems being that Rich Brown has great development and contributors to Aeon, while Mr Falken does not with Kalpa (or did not! Hopefully he has gotten some traction with it).

Good write up here as well from around that time. I haven’t had a chance to check out the article you linked though. https://sfalken.tech/posts/2024-06-08-how-do-aeon-and-kalpa-relate/

[–] ThreeEelsInABaseballJersey@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Appreciate the response! Too bad about Kalpa but hopefully it's managed to gather some contributors and turn things around. Definitely considering giving Aeon another go as well on a laptop or something. I am a GNOME user already and it seems like a solid option for something that just works.