currently daily-driving their Aeon flavour. it may be the best Linux-for-beginners i’ve ever seen. the installer has no options at all and just overwrites the disk with a preloaded partition which means installation takes literally five minutes. it’s auto-updating, immutable, snapshots itself so it can roll back when something breaks, and basically only allows Flatpaks. on first boot you get an empty desktop with browser, app store, notes app, and calculator, and those are literally the only user applications on the machine. very refreshing.
So I can’t install root on one drive and home on second drive?
Does Aeon have Gnome or KDE? I somehow couldn’t find it on their website, maybe I am blind.
no, the partition scheme is predetermined because it’s set up for snapshots.
Aeon only has gnome, which i personally believe is a good choice because no matter your opinion on it, it provides a clean break from windows and mac which means new users won’t assume that the system works a certain way because of how it looks.
i think it should. i’m running it on an amd laptop but one of the first things it did after installation was pop up a window that said “your system requires some drivers, we have installed them and they will be available next boot” and that made the camera, fingerprint reader and multitouch just start working.
i’ve not tried it but apparently gaming “just works” after installing the steam flatpak.
currently daily-driving their Aeon flavour. it may be the best Linux-for-beginners i’ve ever seen. the installer has no options at all and just overwrites the disk with a preloaded partition which means installation takes literally five minutes. it’s auto-updating, immutable, snapshots itself so it can roll back when something breaks, and basically only allows Flatpaks. on first boot you get an empty desktop with browser, app store, notes app, and calculator, and those are literally the only user applications on the machine. very refreshing.
So I can’t install root on one drive and home on second drive? Does Aeon have Gnome or KDE? I somehow couldn’t find it on their website, maybe I am blind.
no, the partition scheme is predetermined because it’s set up for snapshots.
Aeon only has gnome, which i personally believe is a good choice because no matter your opinion on it, it provides a clean break from windows and mac which means new users won’t assume that the system works a certain way because of how it looks.
That sounds really cool! Do you know if they include GPU drivers (NVDIA) or how you’d install them?
i think it should. i’m running it on an amd laptop but one of the first things it did after installation was pop up a window that said “your system requires some drivers, we have installed them and they will be available next boot” and that made the camera, fingerprint reader and multitouch just start working.
i’ve not tried it but apparently gaming “just works” after installing the steam flatpak.