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Re: AnduinOS

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Post by thesnide »

magackame wrote: post #48
thesnide wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

flatpack, snap and all thpse docker wanabee solve the right problem the wrong way. (pseudo)static is a quick & dirty solution to a real problem. really solving it requires skills and time. which are all quite scarse given the new generation appetite for ease of use over efficiency

What is the right way to solve this problem in your view? If Rust continues to take over we will end up with (truly)static everything, which doesn't look too bad.

Dynamic linking is much better in the long run. As you can proxy things more easily if changes are needed.

But it needs more ABI hygiene, and maintaing that compatibility proxy layer.

Yet, I agrew that unfortunatly, it feels much more effective at first to just "freeze the whole stack in amber".

Context: https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/78-static-linking-pitfal...

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by 0x457 »

Retr0id wrote: post #46
0x457 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, YouTube isn't an application is a webpage, install plugins to block tracking there. Steam is opt-in for metrics, all it does is collects hardware report. Unless I'm missing something?

It still logs rather a lot by default, like which applications you launch and how long you use them for. Which is fine, all laid out in their privacy policy etc., but it's not clear to me where Anduin's "No telemetry at all!" promise starts and ends. Maybe "no added telemetry" would be more pedantically-correct.

I don't know, I understood it as "No OS level telemetry or telemetry in first-party apps".

> It still logs rather a lot by default, like which applications you launch and how long you use them for.

If you're talking about Steam, those are social features that can be disabled if you want to hide the fact you're playing a hentai game (NSFW) https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1ie66ix/nsfw_show_me...

I'd rather OS not fuck with my application settings on its own nor do I want it to install browser plugins for me. I wish I had a dollar for every "ubuntu, but looks like windows".

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by zem »

zamadatix wrote: post #49
ThinkBeat wrote: post #21

I really wish people creating a distro, and even more so distro of a distro of a distro should not call it OS. (Debian - Ubuntu . AnduinOS) I am alwasy happy to look at new operating system projects. It is a major hobby. Could distros use AnduinDI AnduinUbuntu AnduinLinux. or just Anduin I dont like getting my hopes up like that.

The last thing I'm going to care about comparing distros is whether they used the same naming pattern as Microsoft instead of Apple. To give credit to their author, it sounds like their name really is Anduin Xue and this is their OS, not that they intended for it to sound confusing. Not all that different than how Debian was named, beyond including OS at the end. https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about

I think the gp is complaining specifically about the "OS" bit; that makes it sound like a new operating system rather than a derivative linux distribution

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by sangeeth96 »

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/

ex-Microsoft engineer: https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about#:~:text=I%20chose%20to...

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by sambaumann »

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].

Or mint, which is a much more popular Ubuntu derivative which uses flatpaks

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by ale42 »

williamscales wrote: post #33
gummyworm wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a long time, Ubuntu ISOs fit on a CD-ROM. Once that barrier was broken, the sizes inflated pretty rapidly IIRC.

They used to send you free CDs to hand out if you asked!

I hope I didn't throw away the ones I had!

Re: AnduinOS

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Post by blacklion »

magackame wrote: post #48
thesnide wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

flatpack, snap and all thpse docker wanabee solve the right problem the wrong way. (pseudo)static is a quick & dirty solution to a real problem. really solving it requires skills and time. which are all quite scarse given the new generation appetite for ease of use over efficiency

What is the right way to solve this problem in your view? If Rust continues to take over we will end up with (truly)static everything, which doesn't look too bad.

It looks bad: Security hole in popular library (crate) and you need to update everything (and, probably, wait till authors of software update their dependencies) instead of update one system library.
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