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[–] Sallp 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have never ran across Vanilla OS, it sounds interesting.

Vanilla OS is an immutable and atomic Linux operating system with user experience as the main focus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Vanilla OS 2.0 is looking like a big upgrade, they are also moving to Debian

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's special about this build in particular?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

second release of the alpha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's interesting. I wanted to try it not long ago, and downloaded a random build which didn't complete installation unfortunately. I'm not a good at searching I guess 😅 How did you distinguish it from the others?

EDIT: found it here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yes aha that's how i found it

[–] Presi300 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Installer is still broken, on my laptop anyways

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of the reason I haven't installed on my laptop.

[–] Presi300 1 points 1 year ago

The reason I haven't done it on mine... I literally cannot install it