As the title and the website say, I’m currently making a distro with the goal that you don’t have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.
As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.
If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I’ll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)
I’ll just mostly copy the comment above because it answers my intentions:
I have NEVER had less issues with an OS ever since running Arch and/or CachyOS, however issues COULD arise and that is enough for the usual Reddit dickhead to talk someone who’s asking for their first distro out of using anything Arch based. I’m tired of hearing these fucking “no you can’t recommend CachyOS, a new user should not touch Arch”, “CachyOS will break three times within your first week of using it”, “it has the AUR so you will contract HIV instantly by using it”, I just can’t hear it anymore which is why I want to provide people with an option that still has them on an Arch based distro but with added peace of mind and speed optimizations out of the box. You know, that’s the thing, I personally find Arch easy and intuitive and don’t get where people get the idea that it breaks all the time from, but that IS the perception however.
I’ve been using Arch since 2008 or 2010, idk. I find it easy and intuitive but I still managed to fuck it up multiple times by now. All of those major fuckups I can remember could probably have been solved by what you’re trying to do with Pu-239.
List of major fuckups off the top of my head, chronologically:
Once it had suddenly contracted some kind of computer AIDS which made the windows pink and caused other graphical errors. Never figured out why, a reinstall solved it.
Another time I installed a bunch of packages without doing a full repo sync before (
pacman -Sinstead of-Syu), which left the system in an inconsistent state. Had snapshots of the root partition I could roll back to.The third time happened only recently and made my desktop unusable for half a year because I couldn’t be bothered to fix the fucking bootloader. Huge update (4-5GiB in size, didn’t update for a few weeks or months even) slowed down the whole system due to btrfs having some exhausted inodes or sth, which made the system crash and the bootloader disappear. This even fucked up my firmware so for whatever reason the system can’t boot from /boot, only from the EFI system partition. My current workaround is copying the files from /boot to the ESP until I can be arsed to figure out the issue.
Damn that sounds like a pain in the ass. Yeah, I personally have btrfs snapshots set up on my main workstation and had to use them once, but I just envision having peace of mind that you won’t even noticing that something broke.
Exactly why I found your idea very cool :)
With Multi-Kernel Linux you could even try booting it before you try booting it, haha 😄
I see. When I wrote that out it was more of a “Why would some one pick this over CachyOS or plain Arch?” and I think you’ve adequately answered that.
I can say the same, except I’ve never had a real issue with Arch in the 15(+) years I’ve known of it and used it. Every issue I’ve had with it was my own fault and was just part of learning of how package managers work. Nothing unique to Arch is inherently confusing or prone to user error in my opinion. But that’s just my own bias.
Good luck with this distro. My only bit of feedback is that distros with a bus-factor of 1 usually die out quickly (burn out is real). I would say if you’re planning to have any support channels look into on-boarding some trustworthy comrades to assist you with this. Other than that wish you the best homie!
Thank you! Yeah, especially at the start you are bound to make a few errors but after a while it becomes smooth sailing. Regarding the burnout, I have autism and if it interests me and I use it for myself I will likely never burn out from it, I’ve put about 100 hours into this the last 12 days and I hate going to bed today instead of testing more on my ThinkPad haha