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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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[-] jokro@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm thinking of switching to Aeon from Tumbleweed, but i always wonder how you would work with cli tools, like LaTeX or various compilers. Is distrobox the way to go? Does it work seamless?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Same. I think you just use transactional-update instead of zypper when you're ready to install something permanently. I don't know what the package selection looks like though.

But anything that's going to need frequent updates should probably be installed outside of transactional-update. For compilers, I generally use some kind of compiler version manager (e.g. rustup for Rust), which would be outside of the immutable base.

[-] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 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.

[-] Maragato@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Excellent news about Aeon and the development of an own installer. The last time I installed Aeon it didn't allow automatic user login, is this possible anymore? Thanks

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I haven't used it, but this post implies that it should work:

edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and put your username in DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN="username"

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