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Re: AnduinOS

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Post by spjt »

ginko wrote: post #155
voidUpdate wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it actually mean to create a distro though? Is it just what software you package in your flavour of debian?

To be an independent distro it should at least have its own package manager.

The last thing the world needs is another Linux package manager. F-Droid uses apt and it could hardly be considered Debian.

It's an interesting question though, that I haven't thought about. At a minimum I'd say that it should have some sort of coherent goals and philosophy, its own package repository, and should not be replicable from its parent distro with a script to install/remove various packages.

The last one is probably the most critical, if it can do something the base distro can't, then it at least has a reason to exist, whether or not you want to call it a "distro" or not.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by voidUpdate »

spjt wrote: post #171
ginko wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be an independent distro it should at least have its own package manager.

The last thing the world needs is another Linux package manager. F-Droid uses apt and it could hardly be considered Debian. It's an interesting question though, that I haven't thought about. At a minimum I'd say that it should have some sort of coherent goals and philosophy, its own package repository , and should not be replicable from its parent distro with a script to install/remove various packages. The last one…

I feel like I've seen a load of "distros" that are just ubuntu with different packages or a different default DE or something

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by shakna »

userbinator wrote: post #103
cnst wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first I thought it must have been a typo…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arduino_boards_and_com... Some of them are powerful enough that they could probably run a full desktop Linux comfortably.

The Uno can also run it uncomfortably [0].

[0] https://github.com/raspiduino/arv32-opt

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by hakube »

whalesalad wrote: post #18
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Distros also represent sets of defaults and software choices (e.g. removing snap). Good defaults can make a world of difference and dramatically reduce time to usability on new installs. Besides that distros also tend to include theming that’s much more complete and versatile (works at odd UI scales and such) than themes you find online, which can also be of value. Trying to assemble all the components and poke confi…

Could that not be a script you run on a fresh Ubuntu install? I am just thinking in terms of all the heft and maintenance responsibility for maintaining this website, documentation, etc (which is all going to be virtually identical to every other documentation site), building isos, hosting them, doing releases. When the end result is just install packages a, b, c, remove snap, add this theme, add this wallapaper. tha…

similar to Omarchy by DHH. Just run a script after a fresh install of Arch, and it will pre-configure your Hyprland desktop

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by deadbabe »

newfocogi wrote: post #10

I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.

Even after reading this comment I looked back because I really didn’t know what you were talking about, and only after reading the comment about “Anduin” did I realize there was no r in the name. Crazy.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by dartharva »

rtpg wrote: post #158
sampo wrote: post #13

> AnduinOS, a one-man project from a Chinese Microsoft engineer, is quite a new Ubuntu remix that reshapes GNOME in the image of Windows 11. > it modifies Canonical's current version of GNOME to look strikingly like Windows 11, using a collection of existing extensions and themes https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/anduinos/

This is Yet Another Example of people just refusing to use Plasma despite Plasma being _so much closer_ to Windows. Please people! KDE/Plasma gets you to something Windows-like! You don't have to use GNOME!

Yeah but Plasma is buggy and doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of apps like GNOME does.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by dartharva »

neilv wrote: post #74
tombert wrote: post #69

This actually looks pretty neat, particularly the integration with Flatpak. One thing that confused me when I first went to Linux a million years ago was the difference in how you install stuff. With Windows you download an exe file, double click it, next next next finish, and you have your app installed. With Linux, every distro is slightly different and it's almost never quite as straightforward to people. I think…

Flatpak is great for people who wish they were running Microsoft. Others can just run a distro for people who believe in open source software.

It's the opposite. Windows users don't procure their software from centralized stores, they install them from each of their individual installers downloaded from their respective websites.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by dartharva »

Saris wrote: post #19

I'm not really sure after reading through the front page why it's different from Ubuntu, it mentions flatpaks so that's one aspect. But there's no breakdown of what other major things are different, or why to pick it over Ubuntu or [other popular distro].

It wants to specifically target Windows 11 users, which is strange because Windows 11 itself isn't done with targeting its own users yet.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by dartharva »

cardanome wrote: post #68

Considering we already have Linux Mint which is Ubuntu based with the shite parts removed and where flatpacks are well supported, I wish it would say more about about the unique selling point of AnduinOS.

Windows 11 theme. That's it.

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by dartharva »

_imnothere wrote: post #106

Seeing the screenshot on the site with WPS Office seem like a huge red flag to me, while the distro might not be affiliated with WPS Office, I'll just put the link here to raise attention that WPS Office DOES NOT worth anyone's trust. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vz1gse/allegedly_wps...

Ain't nobody outside China using WPS cloud, you don't have much to worry about from a functional point of view.

I prefer OnlyOffice myself. The Russians made such a good MS Office clone even UNESCO is using it apparently: https://www.onlyoffice.com/customers.aspx?from=default

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