Harald Sitter is working on a new technologically advanced operating system tentatively named “KDE Linux”. This operating system aims to break free of the constraints currently limiting KDE’s existing Neon OS and offer a superior experience for KDE’s developers, enthusiast users, and everyday users.
KDE Linux’s base system will be immutable, meaning that nothing will be able to change critical parts of the system, such as the /etc, /usr, and /bin, directories. User applications will be installed via self-contained packages, such as Flatpaks and Snaps. Adventurous users and developers will be able to overlay anything they want on top of the base system in a non-destructive and reversible way, without ever having to touch the core and risk not-easily-fixable breakage.
This will help provide users with a solid, stable, and secure environment, without sacrificing the ability to run the latest and greatest KDE software.
Interesting and based on arch, so I might actually give it a spin if it actually comes to fruition. Not really into immutable distros, but I’m willing to try.
Often times things like the desktop environment and certain libraries and command line utilities are the things that I want to be up to date, this being based on arch might fix that problem. I’m honestly not really interested in having to use toolbox and distrobox and install another linux distro on top of the one I’m using just to use a few command line tools.
I’ve never treated Neon as anything more than just KDE showcase. And I highly doubt the new project will be able to change my mind.
Good luck to the team, though.
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