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Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Re: Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Post by codetrotter »

jmclnx wrote: post #2

never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux

For a while there was also a distro project working on the opposite direction. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

An official Debian GNU distribution using the kernel of FreeBSD instead of the Linux kernel.

https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD officially terminated July 2023 due to lack of interest and volunteers.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html

Re: Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Post by codetrotter »

jmclnx wrote: post #2

never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux

Another interesting, currently ongoing, mixture of Linux world and FreeBSD is NixBSD. A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.

https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd

I came across it earlier today.

Re: Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Post by skydhash »

zb3 wrote: post #5

I hope Google will make Android more desktop friendly so it becomes the real alternative to the current status quo.

We could have something like android in the linux world if manufacturers did the minimum to support Linux (which already accept binary blobs). But they also want to push their (bloated) apps alongside the driver.

Re: Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Post by XorNot »

zb3 wrote: post #5

I hope Google will make Android more desktop friendly so it becomes the real alternative to the current status quo.

I don't. Google's Android support has just slowly eroded away all the Linux benefits with layers and layers of user hostile "security" without the benefits (i.e. backing up my phone to Google doesn't mean a new phone will one-click recover itself to how it was).

Re: Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Post by speakspokespok »

jmclnx wrote: post #2

never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux

One of the side benefits of using the FreeBSD userland is all the flags will be consistent regardless of the of program. ‘-l’ or ‘-a’ are going to do what you expect irrespective of the command. It’s nice, and I used free for along while. I still know BSD syntax better than the SystemV equivalent.

Re: Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

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Post by PixelForg »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #4
tetrisgm wrote: post #3

Simplified desktop doesn’t very clearly map to “very text oriented, barebones Linux UI“. I was expecting something more like the ststem76 Pop OS kinda thing when I read this.

Niri would be a simplified desktop to me https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

I really wanted to switch to this but unfortunately it doesn't have support for Xwayland scaling :( in case youre using 4k, On Wayland only KDE and Gnome seem to have gotten this working.
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