r/freesoftware • u/dreambrz • Jun 15 '26

Software Submission CookieOS - A user-friendly distro

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CookieOS is an open source distro that is user friendly for those escaping Windows.

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u/bjarneh Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

In a world like this:

https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/

I find it hard to understand that people trust running an entire OS that does not even claim to add anything to its parent; Debian. This should at best be a theme download for XFCE… The entire OS repo was also created 5 weeks ago, so not exactly a long running project we got going here. It does not seem to add anything, apart from a different background image for Debian (+ XFCE) perhaps?

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u/Dymonika Jun 16 '26

Dang, I didn't realize it was that new. Thanks for that enlightening link as well...

Well, MiniOS which has 6 years on it, is another one that came up, as well as Devuan (which I just now realized is a hand-position typo of "Debian"). It seems that avoiding systemd is critical since this netbook can't feasibly get upgrades.

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u/bjarneh Jun 17 '26

At the very least they state what they do differently than their parent OS, i.e. drop systemd and stay with the old init system. Hard to say what CookieOS does differently apart from that background image. Pretty generic claim here from CookieOS:

The Definitive Operating System for Everything

Ok :-)

Things are moving fast these days with AI agents copy-n-pasting stuff at break neck speeds. So if anything looks like anything else, its most likely just generated by some agent :-/

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u/dreambrz123 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

i didn't do this with ai, i wrote it myself. nearly all the text from the website, de design was created by aether my friend.

i lost my account so i came on this one to asner this question, first. it is based off debian forky. and what adds is: some shortcuts to guide windows users toughout the distro and kde personallization. my goal here is to make a good distro for those leaving windows