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I'm in the process of making a distro that combines the way SteamOS makes Arch Linux stable and user-friendly WITH the performance optimizations of CachyOS (pu-239.org)

submitted 1 week ago by yxc999@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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As the title and the website say, I'm currently making a distro with the goal that you don't have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.

As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.

If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I'll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wdym about hard? this is to achieve immutability plus kernel efficiency improvements.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just see all these derivatives and everyone saying "to make arch more accessible and easy". I just dont get it I guess.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is something else i guess, it's not about UX but about how the system works kind of. i'm not exactly sure about how silverblue does it but think of it this way. not everything in your system needs to be mutable (your home dir does) so those parts are isolated and made immutable, the user cannot modify them, this helps to keep a more stable system. they can be changed when the system updates them , but it's more like they are replaced and a one image is built rather than a modification if you will.

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Jup, you got it right, the "easier and accessible" part just arises as a byproduct of making Arch atomic. By nature this will make the install pre-configured and thus easier to get into even if this isn't even the goal but rather just stability and peace of mind.