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Vanilla OS 22.10 Kinetic Showcase Video

VanillaOS @monero.town Vanilla OS 22.10 Kinetic

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I know this trailer wasn't targeted at me, but it didn't tell me anything about the distro.

If I had a friend say "I've been holding off on switching to Linux, but you know, that vanilla os trailer really made me reconsider," I would think, that's great...but none of it is specific to vanilla, all of that has been widely available in every Linux distro for years.

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- Yeah, I'm confused by this video (which is from nearly a year ago, btw). It looks like a gnome shell overview more than anything.
  
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  Also 22s of it's already brief 102s runtime was just Assassin's Creed gameplay lol.
  
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Looks like the built-in web browser is WebKit based (recognisable by its web inspector)

I never managed to make Netflix work properly on Linux' webkit browsers. Widevine only seems to work with Chromium and Gecko based browsers.

According to omglinux, VanillaOS is a Ubuntu based Linux with an immutable file system (first time I ever hear of this).

To be honest, the only thing I care of this days is a good OS for my RaspberryPis.

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- Immutable OS' are really cool and are probably going to be the future of Linux desktop computing as they are much more stable and reliable as well as removing a big maintenance burden on the distro devs by shipping most of the software via Flatpaks.
  
  If you're interested, there is NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, SUSE MicroOS, VanillaOS are the big names at the moment I also suggest this read for some general info about how they work https://tesk.page/2023/08/29/misconceptions-about-immutable-distributions.html
  
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  Thanks for the tips !
  
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  +1 for NixOS. I use it daily and it's really stable and fast
  
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Gnome looks great!

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So they just showed some apps in stock gnome shell. Replace vanilla os to other gnome distro and nothing is different.

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- Not true at all.
  
  VanillaOS is an immutable distro made by the devs from Bottles.
  
  It aims to be as user friendly and stable as possible, while giving advanced users the option to use their own package manager apx to install every software ever available for Linux.
  
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  The video do not shows it. If I turn all my extensions off my system will look exactly same.
  
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- That's... that's the point. Vanilla, as in no modifications.
  
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I played with this a bit in QEMU and I really enjoy the concept but am personally holding off on installing it to bare metal until the Debian rebase comes out. I haven't used Ubuntu in quite a long time but an interim release sounds especially bad to base an immutable OS on.

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Doesn't really tell me much about what the distro does differently from every other distro running gnome though

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