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.
The idea is cool (not for me personally, but I see the merit).
But this project has flip-flopped its name, its flip-flopped its distro, its flip-flopped its Desktop Environment. Development has stopped and started multiple times.
I don’t think this distro or this project is something that can be relied upon.
Surely it’d make more sense to develop this as a theme that can be installed by Plasma users, rather than as an entire distro?
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?
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.
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.
It’s just a meme distro.
the more people use it the more reliable it will become
Pourquoi 🤔
Pourquoi pas?
Parce que
Arreviderci
I haven’t read about this before.
It’s interesting that (judging from the screenshot), they even tried to recreate the Apple menu, which on macOS isn’t a start menu after all; but I do wonder what is the way to start apps in this interface? Did they try to clone macOS in that regard to and do that through the “Finder” (probably Dolphin)?
