Along the same lines, I'd love to know if they have power savings, fan control, or other configuration refinements baked into this (or available to pull into other distros) for their hardware line.
I don’t know why you were downvoted because you are right.
This is a distro. It’s not even a new userland as far as I understand... it’s just a linux distro.
> Is there a downside to using a non-mainstream distribution?
There are three things I can think of immediately that would make me skeptical about using a new distro vs one of the more established ones:
1) I would be worried about the maintainers supporting it with timely updates (especially around security)
2) I would be interested in how it is configured out of the box, from a security perspective and if it's a derivative of one of the mainstream distros then what changes are they making?
3) I would be interested in how they plan to work with upstream communities (i.e. that they do NOT follow the Canonical/Ubuntu model).
> That looks neat. Is there a downside to using a non-mainstream distribution?
The useless, information-free response to a lot of end user requests for help on Linux tends to be "try a different distribution." If that happens 20% of the time to users of a popular distribution who ask a question online - that figure is just a guess - I can only imagine how often it will happen to users of an obscure distro.
I wonder what that website says. Every time I tried to scroll it got stuck for four seconds, put my CPU to 100%, and then jumped way further up/down than I'd expect.
Yet another bloated distro based upon ubuntu with no tangible value brought to you by a company who (for the longest time) required a support package to be installed on top of stock ubuntu. I suspect them rolling this distro is due to the fact that many of their offerings have discrete graphics and non-free wifi.
What's the benefit/reasoning here for another distro? I just want rock-solid hardware with strong Linux compatibility. It seems like the man-hours would be better spent contributing to drivers to ensure stability and accessibility across all Linux distributions.
Did this not work for Android? I seem to recall that every Android phone manufacturer shipped their own customized Android with different home screens, navigation, widgets, apps, etc. Did not stop consumers from buying the phones. Even today the number of Android phones released with stock Android each year is laughably low.
New definition of OS: theme + shortcuts + Linux.
I understand that they want to control the UI, why not just release a package that anyone can install on top of the preferred Linux distro?
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Boring.
Personally, that seems more interesting to me. With this, why not just stick with existing distros?
(I don't know anything about Pop_OS, so can't comment there)
There are three things I can think of immediately that would make me skeptical about using a new distro vs one of the more established ones:
1) I would be worried about the maintainers supporting it with timely updates (especially around security)
2) I would be interested in how it is configured out of the box, from a security perspective and if it's a derivative of one of the mainstream distros then what changes are they making?
3) I would be interested in how they plan to work with upstream communities (i.e. that they do NOT follow the Canonical/Ubuntu model).
> The OS is based on Ubuntu
Oh. That's too bad.
The useless, information-free response to a lot of end user requests for help on Linux tends to be "try a different distribution." If that happens 20% of the time to users of a popular distribution who ask a question online - that figure is just a guess - I can only imagine how often it will happen to users of an obscure distro.
The way things went with netbooks and nowadays with Android, Jolla, Tizen,... shows what happens when OEMs try to sell Linux distributions.
I can clearly imagine Dell Linux, HP Linux, MS Linux, Huawei Linux, Samsung Linux, .... each with their own "value added" and update policies.
ASUS used to sell 1215B ones with Ubuntu on the German Amazon store, which I managed to get for travel purposes.
But in spite of those two examples, I don't see most OEMs would play ball regarding OEM distributions and updates.
Imagine getting a OEM Linux with such update model, using closed source drivers bound to the distribution kernel.
While I too find it a bit odd to call it OS I am very much in favour of doing UI research on distros like this instead of in Ubuntu default.
I would like to see a more radical approach towards a productivity/creativity OS though, so far it looks like just another Linux distro.