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what do you think about Vanilla Os ? (lemmy.ml)

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I have been mostly an Arch and Fedora user but I am very impressed by Vanilla Os, it is clean and fast, their installer is beautiful and new, everything works very well, for example after a few day my last fedora install with gnome desktop was lagging a bit on my gaming laptop but I doesn't lag at all on Vanilla Os, it always feels fresh and clean. Anyone else experienced Vanilla Os, what are your thoughts about it ?

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[–] voluntaryexilecat 1 points 2 years ago

I see no advantage in switching to VanillaOS (from Archlinux), and Ubuntu's tendendcy to ship everything in snaps does not make it better. Arch is swift and clean, snapshots (LVM) protect from broken updates, the archive allows rollbacks way into the past, the additional LTS Kernel bridges bugs in mainline. Rebuilding packages is easy with the available toolchain, and you can be sure every package is as vanilla as possible conpared to upstream.

Hiding complexity from the user just builds another layer of complexity that can break. I can fix an Arch or a Debian, but Vanilla sounds like it will break once you want to add a few sprinkles of chocolate.