Review: Bazzite 40, Playtron OS Alpha 1, Tucana Linux 3.1
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I usually like small projects which are trying to keep things simple and clean. These sorts of projects usually bring improved efficiency and speed at the cost of modern features. However, Tucana manages to do the opposite. Its install process and package manager are slower, by far, compared to most modern systems and there doesn't appear to be any reduction in resource consumption (the live environment used 830MB of RAM to run Plasma). Which means we are missing out on thousands of packages and convenient features for a slower and similar sized operating system, when compared to most mainstream Linux distributions.
Maybe Tucana will improve in future releases, or make more use of its custom package manager. For now, it's not bringing anything helpful to the experience.
I also want to note that one frustration I experienced twice this week was live systems providing working graphical interfaces, while the installed system did not. One of the reasons people use live desktop media is to test to confirm an operating system will work properly with their hardware before they install it. Using an install process which installs alternative packages or configurations which provide a different experience largely nullifies the benefits of having live media. I hope other up and coming projects keep this in mind so that their installed software works (or doesn't) the same as the live media.