In theory, there’s a wide choice of software. As well as Flatpaks, Vanilla OS also has built-in support for Alpine, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and openSUSE packages via its own package-management wrapper called Apx… and it also claims support for the AppImage format, and an Android runtime based on Waydroid.
However, we couldn’t get anything except Debian packages working in our testing.
this is a very bleeding-edge experimental distro, and in practice, we found it felt unfinished and not fully working.
I didn’t find it too stable. Shit kept breaking. Even the install took 3 attempts before it would boot… using the same settings each time. Anecdotally, I gave up and put arch back on it with zero issues.
If they can do what they claim then it’s pretty damn cool. But from what it sounds like it’s got a lot of growing to do before it gets to what they claim.
I’ll pass for now.
If it’s “bleeding edge” and “experimental” it should be labeled as such, and not “stable”.
I didn’t find it too stable. Shit kept breaking. Even the install took 3 attempts before it would boot… using the same settings each time. Anecdotally, I gave up and put arch back on it with zero issues.
If they can do what they claim then it’s pretty damn cool. But from what it sounds like it’s got a lot of growing to do before it gets to what they claim.
I’ll pass but keep an eye on it.
Hmm, that’s weird.
I got everything working.