19th November 2017, 7:07
I have to say I'm disappointed to hear the news concerning Maui, but because I'm not paying for it, I don't believe I have much to complain about if the developers wish to pursue other projects. It's their time and energy, after all.
That being said, I have to say also I felt Maui Linux has the closest out of the box experience to Mac OS X in its varied flavors. In stark contrast to other Linux distros (with the exception of Netrunner), many things in the OS "just work." Not a great deal of putzing around or "try this hack" -- things in the OS pretty much behaved as one might expect.
Even periodic updates (why Linux devs insist on calling them "semi-rolling releases" is beyond me) under Maui work exceedingly well. Kernel updates via Update Manager even work fine. And if I don't want to update stuff, Maui makes it clear to me what's problematic, and what isn't.
So I'm sad to hear "no new ISO" distros of Maui. I'll continue to use it as long as the security updates come out for Xenial. But it seems I shall have to start looking for a new distro. Not sure I want to go back to Netrunner, try Neon, or something else. As I said, Maui just worked well for me.
That being said, I have to say also I felt Maui Linux has the closest out of the box experience to Mac OS X in its varied flavors. In stark contrast to other Linux distros (with the exception of Netrunner), many things in the OS "just work." Not a great deal of putzing around or "try this hack" -- things in the OS pretty much behaved as one might expect.
Even periodic updates (why Linux devs insist on calling them "semi-rolling releases" is beyond me) under Maui work exceedingly well. Kernel updates via Update Manager even work fine. And if I don't want to update stuff, Maui makes it clear to me what's problematic, and what isn't.
So I'm sad to hear "no new ISO" distros of Maui. I'll continue to use it as long as the security updates come out for Xenial. But it seems I shall have to start looking for a new distro. Not sure I want to go back to Netrunner, try Neon, or something else. As I said, Maui just worked well for me.