Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works

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In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so

appeared earlier this week. It's a very different OS from version 1, which came out 18 months ago and that

Vanilla OS looks like any other GNOME distro, and you can install .deb packages from the shell easily enough – click to enlarge Leaving its Ubuntu base behind also means that Orchid drops Snap support, though. In theory, there's a wide choice of software. As well as Flatpaks, Vanilla OS also has built-in support for Alpine, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and openSUSE packages via its own package-management wrapper calledAll of these different environments run via built-in OCI containers, managed by Podman. However, we couldn't get anything except Debian packages working in our testing.

The graphical interface to the Apx packaging system shows that there's a lot of unconventional stuff happening under the hood, though – click to enlarge, but it's still rather patchy, and some sections seem not to have been updated from Vanilla OS 1 yet. For instance, we found it refused thefor installing packages.

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