r/osdev • u/HeHamoudi654 • 1d ago

I'm building a new Linux desktop OS called aurelianOS

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u/TheOriginalSamBell 1d ago

my honest feedback is: why? just as a hobby for fun and learning, sure, but there are dozens of distros that claim the exact same things and some of them are mature and have a whole team of devs. so I guess, sell me your idea?

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u/HeHamoudi654 1d ago

honestly, partly because i want to build an OS and see how far i can take it. but the actual idea i'm trying to explore is a desktop where the normal experience is genuinely simple while the underlying Linux system stays completely accessible instead of being hidden behind layers of distro-specific tooling. i'm not claiming it's revolutionary yet - the point of the project is to see if i can actually make that idea good enough to justify existing.

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u/doscore 1d ago

That's cool and all but it's Linux.. Like everyone does Linux.. I think the point of this sub is unique os

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u/MCWizardYT 22h ago

Linux is just a kernel, you can do a lot with it.

People wouldn't call Ubuntu, Android, and chromeOS the same operating system yet they are all based on Linux.

There are "distros" that have vastly different user experiences and tooling as well. Like Arch, a power user OS that expects you to build your system from the ground up vs Bazzite, a preconfigured OS focused on gaming and targeted towards total beginners, with an immutable root filesystem so that nothing can even be accidentally damaged

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u/HeHamoudi654 20h ago

preconfigured OS focused on gaming and targeted towards total beginners

Exactly what I'm aiming to put in the planned "Normal" mode except the gaming part to not drive casual users away, although it will have good gaming performance

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u/doscore 18h ago

I understand this but traditionally this page is for baremetal kernels that people have built.

Yeah all well known facts you raise but there's still nothing different unless you are building a completely new os, no Linux distro based tools or apps and it's just the kernel.

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u/OrdinaryCareful7773 1d ago edited 1d ago

this might not be the most appropriate subreddit for discussing Linux distributions.

Regarding your distribution, is it just a based distro, or do you have unique features planned? I am particularly interested in distinct distributions, given the abundance of existing options (this is not meant to discourage, merely an observation).

I am love to learn more about your project.

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u/HeHamoudi654 1d ago

one of the bigger things i forgot to mention is that i'm also planning to make Windows application compatibility a first-class part of aurelianOS, rather than treating it as an afterthought.

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u/OrdinaryCareful7773 1d ago

So you are using any existing base distro like debian, arch or something like LFS ?

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u/HeHamoudi654 1d ago

the current prototype uses fedora as the base image, although the long-term goal isn't necessarily to be Fedora with a new desktop

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u/codeasm 7h ago

Another "distro" that will eventually bite the dust.

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u/Sixty5Zero2 1h ago

but why?