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pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop (9to5linux.com)
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pearOS, a Linux distro that aims to look and behave like Apple’s macOS, is once again in active development with a new base, design, installer, and more.

French developer David Tavares initially created Pear OS back in 2011, based on Ubuntu and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The initial release, Pear OS 3, was based on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and shipped with Linux kernel 3.0.

While Ubuntu was using the Unity interface back then, Pear OS offered a Mac OS X look-alike with a dock. In 2012, David Tavares released a Debian Edition of Pear OS, and a month after that, the developer renamed Pear OS to Comice OS, and the next version was renamed once again to Pear OS Linux a few months later that year.

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[-] walden@wetshav.ing 8 points 1 month ago

If it interests you, try it. If it doesn't interest you, don't install it.

Not all software projects need to be developed by teams of people with published release cycles. There are lots of passion projects out there.

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

I know and I've got nothing against passion projects at all. It's just that this one seems way too volatile after the bumpy road and multiple changes it's had over the years with multiple stops and starts as well.

This is a case where I feel like I agree with the other comments here. Just make it a theme or some dotfiles for others to install instead.

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 1 month ago

That's a fair idea, I didn't realize it was an option to share customized KDE setups but that definitely makes sense.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 month ago

A lot of distros are just a stock distro with a customized DE on top.

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