Cosmic is being packaged up already. Already running it with Cosmic in a VM. Once cosmic alpha is released on the 8th, this will follow very very shortly afterwards
not always. system-linux(.com) is kde+blackarch by default. it's pure monochrome kde. custom installer, generates an icon set and color-schemes with one button. also lets you pick desktop/pkg groups/third party repos the old school way.
Fear not - Serpent OS is more focused on development. The aim is to rebase Solus on Serpent OS which will give users a choice of XFCE, Cosmic, Plasma or Gnome.
And then the dopamine hit wears off, and you stop maintaining it, and it becomes another shitty unmaintained distro like all the rest.
Bebian, Mint, Hannah Montana Linux, uWuntu, Satanic Linux, Pop, Ubuntu CE, Devuan, etc.
Mint came about because Ubuntu couldn't legally ship certain media codecs. So, Mint shipped with them illegally.
Ubuntu is now able to ship with them, and Ubuntu has a more competent dev team.
> So, Mint shipped with them illegally.
That depends on jurisdiction.
>Ubuntu has a more competent dev team.
That is a weird way to misspell the word "larger"
https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/s/gjW3ONah4s
And Canonical is based out of London, so they have to follow UK law. Even if it's legal in France, it would be illegal for Ubuntu to distribute it.
i disagree. pop_os is great for a beginner who doesn't want to mess with nvidia drivers, mint is great if for some reason you don't like snaps, and devuan is good if you don't want systemd
Ubuntu installs Nvidia drivers during the main installation process.
Ubuntu works without snaps after entering two commands.
Why avoid systemd? Unless you're conflating systemd the init/daemon manager with systemd the organization that has developed additional modules for the systemd system that aren't requirements...
No one is forced to download the images. That is the beauty of free and open software. For some reason the Linux community thinks that they have an obligation.
Linux enforces User responsibility. That is basically one of the Root principles. If you aren't mature enough to decide if a software package has a lts future or not just don't download it. Especially when you think about using it in a productive environment
i've been on linux for 20+ years. shit happens.
"rock solid" is just a perspective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. every install is rock solid until it isn't. gotta fuck around and find out. if you don't break it, you won't learn nothin'.
my left arm is tattooed with the various distros i've grokked over the years. redhat, debian, gentoo, suse, arch… done by a tombstone etcher, they use the same equipment.
i'd rather read the arch wiki than the rpm spec or debian reference again tbh. hell, i'd rather read lfs backwards than have to read the deb ref again.
Building from the ground up so it isn't just a re-spin of something else.
They posted this earlier today: https://x.com/Serpent_OS/status/1819668538145026281
They are building on a rust first basis, it has a brand new package manager that is honestly rapid. It's designed in a way that any install can be reverted if there is an issue and without reboot.
They are first building with gnome but already packaging up Cosmic.
It's called PreAlpha0 to really highlight this is more of a technical preview and not ready for daily usage.
Proper version numbering will come later.
So it’s not really trying to solve any real life use case. None of what you list are really good to try it.
Not enough user base to troubleshoot the alpha package manager. It’s fast now, who knows if it will be when it scales to 20k packages or so…
No community either.
It’s a pass for me.
Atomic package manager that works like a traditional package manager instead of layering, forced reboots, relying on filesystem features, etc.
Check out how 'moss state' works in a VM if you're inclined.
Additionally, It'll be minimal work to lock down /usr to make it immutable as well.
So for expectation management, the short answer is you wouldn't use SerpentOS/Moss over ostree or nix right now because they are production ready solutions where SerpentOS/Moss is very much in development. SerpentOS is no way near production ready.
I would encourage you to spin up the OS in a VM and give it a try. You will need to create a 1gb ESP partition and I would recommend at least 30GB for a second partition.
Since it was first launched like two days ago, cosmic is being packaged, gnome has been updated to 46 from 45.3, flathub repo is added as standard so it's already seen some decent movement from the new launch articles that have been written about it. Make no mistake though, this is not even an alpha so whilst it's surprising useable (with flatpak) it's got a long way to go.
As such, why this over ostree or nix, time will tell because that can't be answered right now.
They originally were doing down the Dlang route but issues on that side, they pivoted to Rust and the pace has massively increased and they are able to do more
This looks really interesting from an automated transaction rollback point of view. I've been using the universal blue images for a while now, and I definitely appreciate how hard it is to break anything
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