21st January 2019, 18:56
(21st January 2019, 18:24)smoreau Wrote:(21st January 2019, 17:26)Fargo Wrote: So in my eyes, it seems like a distro could do really well if they took the Mint approach to making KDENeon a more polished and usable Distro. Rather than just using Neon, who positions themselves as nothing more than a updated repository for KDE applications.
You exactly underlined what we get with Maui and what is missing with Neon.
That's strange that the Maui who realized an excellent job do not want to answer to that point.
SM
Yeah, I am always surprised at the lack of communication. I don't know if because they might still do something with Maui or if its just too hard to shut down what they started. Maybe its simply a case of too many projects and too few resources. I know that Maui/Leszek is also part of Netrunner. Which itself seems kind of like a basket case of decisions. For the life of me I don't understand why they would have Maui based on Neon, Netrunner based on Debian and then offer a rolling release based on Manjaro. That really seams like a lot of extra work maintaining 3 distros with 3 different bases. (Granted Debian and Ubuntu would share a lot). It would have made more sense to me to if they stuck to one base. For example SolydXK uses Debian Stable for the stable release and Debian Testing for their rolling release. That seems a lot easier to maintain. If they wanted to be innovative, they could have put the extra time into creating a fixed/stable release of Manjora. That would be interesting. Anyway thats another topic.
Back on topic. I will admit, as much as I like Maui, that the lack of direction and constantly changing decisions would make it hard to return to Maui if it was started up again. But most likely I would return to Maui based on the strength of the distro. It wasn't perfect. It had some odd software choice, but the OS as a whole was great.
If I could design my own distribution, I would start with KDE Neon as the base. Then I would take the approach that Kaos takes and try to use Qt and KDE software for as much as I can. But not be afraid to use GTK or Python or anything else it if was clearly better than the Qt alternative.