Aeryn OS - I might change distro

[Storm]

AerynOS

I may switch to Aeryn OS, it's a very interesting OS as it's built as rolling release that don't break. Not that I have expiernce any breakage on Solus OS which in the future will be built upon Aeryn OS.

AerynOS is an independent performance-oriented Linux-based operating system that diverges significantly from traditional distributions whilst still aiming to provide a familiar and comfortable environment. The code-base is currently in an alpha “technical preview” stage, which means that it is not yet ready for widespread use. However, we are committed to eventually providing a stable and reliable operating system that will be easy to use and customize.

[Forpli]

Sounds interesting:

Philosophy

[Storm]

"Atomic Updates" seems to caught my eyes.

Downloading it now via Torrent.

[Storm]

Up and running! Dang! It's blazing fast!

[Storm]

Almost completed setting up to my preferences.

[Forpli]

Is yours a gnome desktop or cosmic desktop?

[Storm]

Gnome. I wait to Cosmic hits v2.0 to many bumps still.

[Forpli]

Thank you for the information. I just see that there is only an .iso with gnome. But when it is a good distribution, it would be interesting how Cosmic will run on it when it is in the final version.

[Storm]

The gnome is just for Live boot up. You choose under the installation which DE you want to install. No Gnome files will hit your HDD

[NeilW]

I've had a read of some of their website, interesting.
Can you only install Flatpacks though?

[Storm]

So far most packages comes from flatpak, as it still in alpha stage. But they do have tools to compile and build your own packages. To get access to their repositories;

sudo moss ent
sudo moss search package-name
sudo moss install package-name

Pretty straight forward.

[Storm]

I found their forum. It's on github: AerynOS · Discussions · GitHub

[Storm]

I found a bug. When installing Steam (sudo moss install steam), no steam icon appears before you logout and login again. I have open an issue and they are working on it.

[wsmather]

Have been reading about Aeryn. Found this line on their first blog post back in 2020 and thought it was hilarious:

"If you’re looking for a modern, lightweight, user-friendly, privacy-focused Linux desktop distribution, then you’re in the wrong place."

That might have put me off once. Not anymore.

[swarfendor437]

As you know I prefer Plasma. If PCLOS Debian "trixie" is going to be problematical (perhaps VM testing is not the same), then Q4OS and Artix would be the way forward for me. I have found Q4OS rock solid rolling distro but low kernel that needs the mitigation fix for copy fail.

[Storm]

Now I'm on Cosmic DE on AerynOS.

[swarfendor437]

So what is CosmicDE? Is it built from the groundup? Or is only a modified Gnome? Would be interesting to see if AerynOS could use Liquorix kernel.

[Storm]

Cosmic DE is built from ground up in Rust.

[swarfendor437]

Too rusty for me!

[StarTreker]

@Storm

I may switch to Aeryn OS, it's a very interesting OS as it's built as rolling release that don't break.

What did he say? He's switching OS's, with one I don't even know how to pronounce, and he says a rolling release that won't break! WOW, I never heard of that.

Infact, POP OS is inherently arrogant, that despite using an LTS distro, when a big OS update came through a couple years ago, it made the computer run like garbage and black screen!

So, if a rolling release can update itself and not break, thats a miracle!

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