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pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop (9to5linux.com)
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pearOS, a Linux distro that aims to look and behave like Apple’s macOS, is once again in active development with a new base, design, installer, and more.

French developer David Tavares initially created Pear OS back in 2011, based on Ubuntu and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The initial release, Pear OS 3, was based on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and shipped with Linux kernel 3.0.

While Ubuntu was using the Unity interface back then, Pear OS offered a Mac OS X look-alike with a dock. In 2012, David Tavares released a Debian Edition of Pear OS, and a month after that, the developer renamed Pear OS to Comice OS, and the next version was renamed once again to Pear OS Linux a few months later that year.

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Fair comment.

That said, it just installs in vanilla Arch at this point, which means it would work on EndeavourOS and probably CachyOS as well.

You can of course switch to another DE at any time.

So, you are really not exposing yourself to any risk. If it gets broken or abandoned, just stop using it.

Not that this means you should bother with it. But it is clearly a low risk option to try.

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