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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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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see. When I wrote that out it was more of a "Why would some one pick this over CachyOS or plain Arch?" and I think you've adequately answered that.

I have NEVER had less issues with an OS ever since running Arch and/or CachyOS

I can say the same, except I've never had a real issue with Arch in the 15(+) years I've known of it and used it. Every issue I've had with it was my own fault and was just part of learning of how package managers work. Nothing unique to Arch is inherently confusing or prone to user error in my opinion. But that's just my own bias.

Good luck with this distro. My only bit of feedback is that distros with a bus-factor of 1 usually die out quickly (burn out is real). I would say if you're planning to have any support channels look into on-boarding some trustworthy comrades to assist you with this. Other than that wish you the best homie!

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you! Yeah, especially at the start you are bound to make a few errors but after a while it becomes smooth sailing. Regarding the burnout, I have autism and if it interests me and I use it for myself I will likely never burn out from it, I've put about 100 hours into this the last 12 days and I hate going to bed today instead of testing more on my ThinkPad haha