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The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils. Why the MIT license? Why not stick to GNU GPL?

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[-] rozodru@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I normally use NixOS but recently tried out PikaOS on one of my machines and I love it. Sure it's got a gaming focus but it's fast. damn fast. makes my dev work a breeze. It feels like one of the most complete Linux distros I've ever used. takes all of 15min to install and you can be up and running with everything you need within 30min. And their Pikman package manager is one of the best I've ever used. has distrobox built into it so if I want to install something from Arch, or the AUR, or Fedora, or whatever I just do "pikman --aur install whatever" spins up a distrobox, automatically exports it, good to go. Also has one of the fastest startups I've ever experienced that it felt like I wasn't on systemd. Like Void runit start up speed.

If there are people who want something like Bazzite or Nobara but want a lot more flexibility for packages than PikaOS is it.

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