TL;DR: We're launching a new edition called "GNOME OS Preview", which is built from the latest stable GNOME release. This means that GNOME OS is no longer just a nightly OS for GNOME developers and testers!
Both KDE OS and GNOME OS are immutable distributions. KDE OS base comes from Arch, not sure about GNOME OS.
What I find interesting is that neither support traditional package management, although you can install flatpaks (and snaps and appimage, at least in KDE OS).
Used to more traditional distros, I don’t completely understand this. For now GNOME OS is clear “Forward compatibility is not guaranteed. You may have to re-install in the future.” But KDE OS supports updates already.
In the future, will you be able rely on these for day to day computing or are these more like a demo?
I Install a new OS when I buy a new machine, then I upgrade several times until the hardware dies, but another machine, and start over. These feel more like a Chrome OS type of deal.
Gnome OS is actually based on the Freedesktop SDK, the same base system as most flatpaks are built from (Gnome SDK, KDE SDK, etc. are derivatives of this), with everything else necessary for a complete system on top, each component a Buildstream element. Pretty neat to see how everything comes together - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/tree/master/elements?ref_type=heads
Both KDE OS and GNOME OS are immutable distributions. KDE OS base comes from Arch, not sure about GNOME OS.
What I find interesting is that neither support traditional package management, although you can install flatpaks (and snaps and appimage, at least in KDE OS).
Used to more traditional distros, I don’t completely understand this. For now GNOME OS is clear “Forward compatibility is not guaranteed. You may have to re-install in the future.” But KDE OS supports updates already.
In the future, will you be able rely on these for day to day computing or are these more like a demo?
I Install a new OS when I buy a new machine, then I upgrade several times until the hardware dies, but another machine, and start over. These feel more like a Chrome OS type of deal.
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Gnome OS is actually based on the Freedesktop SDK, the same base system as most flatpaks are built from (Gnome SDK, KDE SDK, etc. are derivatives of this), with everything else necessary for a complete system on top, each component a Buildstream element. Pretty neat to see how everything comes together - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/tree/master/elements?ref_type=heads
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