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Is there any info on what this distro is supposed to be? Browsed the site could not find any summary of what makes it different
This has some good info.
https://news.itsfoss.com/vanilla-os-beta/
The main change with 2.0 is the Debian Sid base, as opposed to Ubuntu.
Debian Sid? Why not Bookworm?
The devs laid out their reasoning here:
https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2023-03-07/vanilla-os-20-orchid---initial-work
Essentially, they want a non-opinionated rolling release and to stick with
aptas a base package manager, which means that Sid is the obvious solution.Thanks for the explanation. I just didn't get the apt-part, since Bookworm uses apt too.