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.)
What will this new distro do that CachyOS doesn’t already (or can’t) do?
I’ll just mostly copy the comment above because it answers my intentions:
I have NEVER had less issues with an OS ever since running Arch and/or CachyOS, however issues COULD arise and that is enough for the usual Reddit dickhead to talk someone who’s asking for their first distro out of using anything Arch based. I’m tired of hearing these fucking “no you can’t recommend CachyOS, a new user should not touch Arch”, “CachyOS will break three times within your first week of using it”, “it has the AUR so you will contract HIV instantly by using it”, I just can’t hear it anymore which is why I want to provide people with an option that still has them on an Arch based distro but with added peace of mind and speed optimizations out of the box. You know, that’s the thing, I personally find Arch easy and intuitive and don’t get where people get the idea that it breaks all the time from, but that IS the perception however.
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 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!
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
I’ve been using Arch since 2008 or 2010, idk. I find it easy and intuitive but I still managed to fuck it up multiple times by now. All of those major fuckups I can remember could probably have been solved by what you’re trying to do with Pu-239.
List of major fuckups off the top of my head, chronologically:
Once it had suddenly contracted some kind of computer AIDS which made the windows pink and caused other graphical errors. Never figured out why, a reinstall solved it.
Another time I installed a bunch of packages without doing a full repo sync before (
pacman -Sinstead of-Syu), which left the system in an inconsistent state. Had snapshots of the root partition I could roll back to.The third time happened only recently and made my desktop unusable for half a year because I couldn’t be bothered to fix the fucking bootloader. Huge update (4-5GiB in size, didn’t update for a few weeks or months even) slowed down the whole system due to btrfs having some exhausted inodes or sth, which made the system crash and the bootloader disappear. This even fucked up my firmware so for whatever reason the system can’t boot from /boot, only from the EFI system partition. My current workaround is copying the files from /boot to the ESP until I can be arsed to figure out the issue.
Damn that sounds like a pain in the ass. Yeah, I personally have btrfs snapshots set up on my main workstation and had to use them once, but I just envision having peace of mind that you won’t even noticing that something broke.
Exactly why I found your idea very cool :)
With Multi-Kernel Linux you could even try booting it before you try booting it, haha 😄
I think the main point is, that this new distribution is operating in an atomic form. Similar to how SteamOS or Bazzite works in regard that, but more general compute oriented like CashyOS and not a gaming distro. When I understand this correctly.
It’s pointless and stupid is what it is.
Please let people have fun with computers, thank you. This doesn’t sound like the 100th Arch reskin and doesn’t sound like “just a bunch of config files” either.
If you need to start a flamewar, please do it with that far-right LLM slopfest grift that is Omarchy.
Thank you for the comment! Omarchy is pretty much just a facists vibe-coded Hyprland rice shipped as a distro used for money-laundering while I try to provide something useful that bridges a gap between stability and performance. Scroll down to the disclaimer section, click on the link and see me struggling to make an ugly logo instead of asking an AI lmao
Love it!! You seem to have a similar stance on LLMs as I do. They’re useful if used correctly, but still destroying the world for nothing in 95% of cases, because most people using them are stupid and talentless.
Jup, I DO use AI and bought an Intel B70 to run stuff locally with my own llama.cpp-sycl AUR package, but just to automate meaningless and tedious work. For example I have a .sh script that I run once and compile all four kernel versions and push them to my website automatically. That .sh is completely vibe-coded locally, the only person I could harm by that is myself haha. That way I can save time and pay attention to the actually relevant stuff. But vibe-coding stuff that could harm the user’s experience is a hard no for me.
You spent 1700€ for that? Jesus, how rich are your parents?!?! 😄
I actually got it for 1249€ the same month it released! I’m super happy with it, worth every penny.