Tux Machines

Review: blendOS 2023.01.26

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 13, 2023

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When I'm reviewing a distribution there are two questions floating in the back of my mind. First, do I find this project useful or interesting? Second, does the project accomplish what it sets out to do, does it meet its own goals? I want to discuss these two queries and my responses to them after running blendOS.

Is blendOS doing something interesting? It's starting to. This is a young project and it seems to be trying to match features with Vanilla OS, which got a lot of hype in the second half of 2022. This project feels like an attempt to basically: "Be Vanilla OS, but with an Arch base." And, if that is the case, it's a worthwhile goal. The idea of being able to pull in software from multiple sources, multiple distributions, and run them all together on one, relatively minimal host operating system has a lot of merit.

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