This actually looks like something really interesting, but it doesn’t say whether it’s based on anything, only “rolling release”. Is this immutable Arch?
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SerpentOS is it's own thing. It's from the same guy who made Solus which was also it's own thing.
Look up Ikey Doherty if you want to know more.
From my experience with Solus, I don't have high hopes for SerpentOS but I'd love to be wrong about that
I'm a long time Solus user and am very happy.
Same. Been using Solus for 8 years. Really no issues.
I'm not sure myself, but it sounds like something entirely new, as in not-Fedora, not-Arch, not-Debian, etc.
It's really hard to tell from the About page, but whatever it is, it sounds very ambitious, and maybe the lead dev is overextended.
Serpent OS is an independent distribution written from scratch by Ikey Doherty, which means that it’s not based on an existing GNU/Linux distribution.
Thanks!
Ha! This blind squirrel (me) did manage to find a nut, it seems.
It took me awhile to find the info. I looked through their documentation pages hoping they would give me a clue, nada. I googled it and had to reword it 3x and then go through a couple articles. Would have been nice if they'd just put it on the about page.
The lead developer, Ikey, has created two distributions before and a desktop environment. He gets far in a rather short amount of time and catches a lot of attention then loses interest and vanishes. While he is a very skilled developer, I wouldn't personally want to be invested in anything he creates out of fear that the pattern repeats.
I mean as long as a license is open source this is sorta a good thing though. If it has enough merit folks will be bound to fork it.
Feels like he'd be better served as a UI/UX consultant for some of the bigger distros, have impact with more staying power
well maybe if he would but like at least whatever he feels like doing can possibly provide value
Funny how Budgie isn’t a choice as DE.
Why? Solus is still going strong, so is budgie?
Its one of the most interesting distribution projects in the last 5 years? So if you are interested in it, check if you have some spare coins and support them.