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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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[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

This doesn't seem like the most reliable developer or distro.

Genuine question, why would I trust my machines to something as inconsistent as this?

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Fair comment.

That said, it just installs in vanilla Arch at this point, which means it would work on EndeavourOS and probably CachyOS as well.

You can of course switch to another DE at any time.

So, you are really not exposing yourself to any risk. If it gets broken or abandoned, just stop using it.

Not that this means you should bother with it. But it is clearly a low risk option to try.

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Of course. I'm not saying it's a huge risk or anything, I'm mostly saying the history and track record of the developer and this distro aren't exactly getting me excited to bother trying it.

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