📣 Vanilla OS First Stable Release

It’s a 'Buntu-based distro with GNOME. Why even bother reading reviews?

DT made a video about it.

What I get from his video is that I would be frustrated with running apps via terminal using this distro.

It’s an interesting concept but for me It’s not something that jumps out at me and I say wow that’s cool! I remember bottles and that wasn’t something for me either. I wouldn’t like it any better if it was KDE either.

Tried Vanilla directly after release, no WiFi connection detected, had to install it with Lan cable plugged in.
After first reboot and install option “Libre Office” I’ve been able to connect to WiFi.

First impression, nice GUI but absolutely nothing special.
Not worse or better than Mint f.e.
Guaranteed not the new Holy Grail of Linux distributions.
Outdated Chrome dev Browser from app store.
Kernel version 5.19.
Haven’t been able to uninstall the standard browser, it appears in the app store as “Available but not installed”
And missing some localised parts, still in English though I’ve choosed German.

It’s okay but that’s it…

I already use the Holy Grail of Linux distributions. EndeavourOS! :wink:

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I was the fourth click of this link. Comes back with “Access Denied”. So was the review that horrible? I like reading reviews about Linux distros, but I can’t find one easily that writes like the guy from Distrowatch…

“You do not have permission to view the contents of this page.” Was this page helpful? NO!

I managed to get past CloudFlare via ProtonVPN with the “stealth” connection mode.

Does it support wayland ?

I tried Gnome on Eos, but it doesnt have fractional support, 100% is small, 200 % is big :slight_smile:

On KDE 125% is the best :slight_smile:

Fwiw, EOS doesn’t either.

Dr will review a toaster if it can run Linux. Good get those clicks up.

Doesn’t what?

Show up full screen in avm until after I change the display settings.

It does on vmware and it always did on virtualbox for me and that is why i used it for so long. What i mean by full screen is full screen in the vm Window. Then if i want to go full screen to not show the vm window controls you can do that also but that’s not how i use it. I just want the same resolution as my monitor and have the vm resize it to the vm window which is only slightly smaller. That way i can still have the host controls also to switch back and forth.I get that with virtualbox and vmware without any intervention. Not all distributions do though. Some must be missing some packages. Most do and the ones i use are the only ones i care about. I’m not using virtualbox anymore though since version 7.0 as it doesn’t work well anymore for me. Too many issues. One time it’s good next update it’s not.

This is how modern Android phones do updates actually.

The A/B system is to ensure the system is always bootable and if something with an update causes a boot failure it simply uses the previous primary.

EDIT: this doesn’t appear to be what Vanilla is doing though? I haven’t looked into it much but itd need A/B root, user data, and maybe 1-2 other partitions for other volatile data.

Yes. Exactly.

On mine this window is filled full. You are using boxes or Gnome boxes. I don’t want this. I want full width and that’s what i get with vmware. Like this…

Edit:

KDE host is at the bottom. Or i could have the task bar where ever.

I was more just pointing out, that even EOS does this. Pretty much all distros do this. It doesn’t bother me, it takes like .05 seconds to adjust it.

I use virt-manager these days and with virgl I can get acceleration and full screen like that in most distros (some just require a package or 2). Some don’t set resolution automatically but w.e

My biggest gripe with VMWare is trying to use the Virtual GPU seems to cause some serious stutters/pauses. Its fine otherwise but I mostly use VMs for Linux Distros so why not use KVM/Virt Manager with virgl?

Wasn’t sure what you meant. I just don’t like using a vm with a small window. I want it to be the same as any OS that is installed which is basically the same resoltion as my monitor there abouts. That’s what i get with vmware and what i got with virtualbox. I don’t want to spend time trying to figure out how to make it work.