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

Nope, I don't find it that hard either, but we are in a bubble here. The average "which distro should I pick" post suggests SteamOS but only with a full AMD system and when people suggest CachyOS, it's met with "bUt YOu cAN't sUgGesT aN ArcH bASeD diStrO tO a BegInNer" so I hope to bridge the gap for people that are waiting for a general-purpose SteamOS release PLUS the CachyOS performance on top. Also some distros do offer people to add the CachyOS repos, which is however forbidden due to their repo policy. Yes it is open source, but they understandably don't want their servers and mirrors to be used by people not even running their distro. As I will compile the kernels for now, ALL packages in the future and host them myself, I actually comply with their repo policy as one of the few distros.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah you shouldn't recommend Arch to a beginner.

If you actually interacted with beginners you'd immediately understand why people choose mint or Ubuntu for that purpose instead.

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Pop_os is good for beginners too. It's where I started. Now I'm on Cachyos after distro hopping 20 times.