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Plutonium-239 - Arch Linux made unbreakable and lightning fast. Initial in-development release, announced here on Lemmy first. (pu-239.org)
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh, cool. Thanks for replying. I did install it in a VM for now. Now that I know what my options are, I can take it from there.

I won't be able to back up all my data from home in a way that males sense right now outside of my laptop, so Barr metal won't be happening until next weekend.

It feels pretty solid right now. I'm going to replicate my KDE configuration from the laptop onto the P-239 VM see how it behaves.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That's nice to hear! My personal feedback and the feedback from people that have tried it so far seems way better than I anticipated, noone seems to have any big issues. A little more choice during the install, a little less weird messages during updates (nothing critical, just looks odd) and some AUR packages that don't install in a way that conform to the Arch guidelines (which is more on them than on the OS) and that's about all the negatives.

    I'll be on vacation for a week and only take my underpowered Thinkpad with me so I'll be working on some little qol changes here and there to bring a more polished version in a few short weeks. If noone finds anything big that needs fixing I might even be able to justify bumping the version number of the next release to 0.1.0 instead of 0.0.2 since it's way more stable than I dared to expect.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I like what I'm seeing here, since you are actually covering a niche that nobody else seems to be covering (maybe they are and I just haven't seen it).

    I find value in all this. I am certainly no Dev, but have enough experience with many different Linux distros to at least serve as a guinea-pig for good projects. Enjoy your vacation, I'll be trying to break your distro while you're away.

    One thing I believe this could benefit from, if possible, is a way to discuss the project in real time, Matrix, IRC, anything really. Just a thought.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    I appreciate it! I'd be especially interested in knowing if there are any locations/directories that the user expects to be carried through deployments or to be writeable that get deleted/overwritten during updates or are read-only in the first place. Finding that would perhaps also fix the issues with some AUR packages not wanting to install. Ideally you can e-mail me your findings to the address on my Codeberg profile and I could write on the code during the vacation and actually test in a VM on my main PC once I get back.

    Regarding the platform to discuss on, someone else asked a similar thing today so I'm just pasting my reply here "Hmm, I’m undecided. Me personally, I couldn’t handle running a forum due to my autism, that would burn me out instantly. Having one entirely community run with me occasionally lurking in like I do here would probably be the only realistic option."

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