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KaOS 2021.04 released

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Re: KaOS 2021.04 released

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KaOS Linux <kaosx.us> is a very different distro. It supports only x86-x64 architecture, is built with nothing but stock Plasma stuff. It is a rolling release that releases an updated installer about once a month, but if you have any iso of theirs it will update to the latest.

It general has a very odd presentation of Plasma, which of course is nothing that can not be done with the stock KDE tools. It is very fast and very stable, with excellent support for most hardware. It is somewhat similar to Arch linux, but does not use Arch's repositories or the AUR. Most build recipes in the AUR however do work fine in KaOS.

The distos repositories include very little gtk software. They have Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, and Inkscape, but little else. The do have a community repository called KCP, which includes more items. They have installed flatpak in the distro for a while, which does open up the OS to using a great deal more software.

It also shares with Arch a somewhat unfriendly community. Questions are typically met with, "You did not phrase the question correctly."; "We need the last 7 months of system logs posted to some url." or often a simple, "We have never seen that issue so you need to solve it on your own."

Over all though it is a fast efficient and stable system. I especially like their clean use of KDE and that they do not muck up the system with bunch of quasi useful "distro tools"
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