As such, I am curious to know how the custom image ecosystem of Vanilla OS is. Like, does something like this exist for Vanilla OS? (FWIW, there was another website that made browsing through these a better experience. But, sadly, I couldn’t find it.)
Well, there is Vib, and there are various custom images out there, but sadly i am not aware of any single website that list them. It’s all in all a much smaller project than uBlue and in things like that it shows.
Well, i am in no way affiliated with the developer team or the project in general and yes, there was some time when everything looked a bit… stalled… but at the moment it looks like they got back their motivation.
is it sensible to be enthusiastic about this project’s future at this point?
No, absolutely not. The chance that VanillaOS becomes a major distribution in the Linux world is minimal and there is the high probability that they just throw the towel at some point in the future. I mean, its like that time when somebody whose name i cannot remember started a Minix clone just for fun as a hobby project…
It’s Debian Sid based so I assume you find the Kernel used therein in VanillaOS
In general it is -as mentioned by @h3ron@lemmy.zip- an immutable, Debian based distribution with GNOME. It uses a quiet interesting system called ABRoot for doing updates. I use it on one of my spare machines now since they did the switch from Ubuntu base to Debian and honestly i like it.
Don’t use Discord!
IRC and Matrix are better, free alternatives.
You know that you shouldn’t use Discord, right?
This one is on you. MY copy of the necronomicon firmly sits in my library in the west wing…
The age of pocket computers ended with the Atari Portfolio. What we got now is the electronic form of Soma.
Look at the people who hang around there.
Fuck “Hacker News”, the people that hang around there are in major ways responsible for the shitty state the internet -and the world- is in now.
We use the ThinkCentre M715q ( Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE / 16 GB RAM) throughout the company (with only two exceptions) and on this hardware it is quiet nimble, even with a ton of rather heavy opened programs.
Regarding the acceptance… well, i think the difference in user interface of Gnome compared to Windows is rather a bonus, it is different enough to be recognized as something that has to be learned rather than invoking some “uncanny valley” effects. But we will see…
I am the “IT guy” for a medium sized industrial company and i am currently using Bluefin on my work computer, preparing to roll it out for the rest of the company if tests go well… my boss is quiet open for the change and if our ERP system is further behaving well in its virtualized environment the big switch will perhaps happen somewhere in the middle of the next year.
I still have to figure out what to do about DATEV, but in the worst case our accounting department will be the only ones using Windows in the long run.
Do yourself a favor and try Vivaldi, while yes, it uses Chromium under the hood, it at least is made by some of the original Opera creators
What about the following take: LLMs are an abomination that consumes enormous masses of resources for… well… really nothing besides being a tool to further enshittify the Internet and the world as a whole, being a tool for making it easy creating ever more divisive content (not to mention the special content Grok is now known for), killing jobs and replacing genuine human creativity by a cheap, warped imitation thereof.
My opinion is: Everybody who uses or promotes this technology is accomplice in making the world a worse place.