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Aeon Desktop Brings New Features in RC2 Release (news.opensuse.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks like most of the improvements have nothing to do with GNOME, so they should also probably impact Kalpa (the KDE MicroOS distro).

I'm particularly interested in these developments because I'm going to upgrade the CPU on my NAS (old Phenom II -> Ryzen 1700), and I'm considering reinstalling w/ MicroOS. It's currently running on an old SATA SSD, but NVMe drives are getting so cheap that it's probably worth an upgrade.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of bold claims related to be better for gaming even compared to Tumbleweed. Does it really have a lead on it? Why Gnome instead of KDE?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There's a KDE version as well called Kalpa.

The main benefit is that the base system is immutable, which should make it much more reliable. So to get new software, instead of doing a zypper install ..., you'd leave the base system alone and only install packaged apps (e.g. flatpaks). That way you don't get conflicts between package versions and upgrades can be predictable.

I don't have direct experience with it, so I don't know how well that works in practice. But I definitely like the idea of using it for my NAS, which doesn't need a lot of updates. It currently runs Leap, but MicroOS should be a relatively straight-forward switch.