Review: MocaccinoOS 1.8.1
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MocaccinoOS is developed by a small team, four members according to the project's latest announcement. The team has some interesting ideas about operating system structure and package management. The idea of having system layers which are (ideally) interchangeable and building software using containers to compile packages strikes me as a useful way to keep software management consistent.
It is unfortunate that I didn't get to experience any of the key elements of this vision. Apart from updating a couple of packages, I was unable to get the Luet package manager to do anything. It was unable to find any packages, unable to download any new software, and unable to show me a list of what was installed. This meant that most of the key features advertised on the Mocaccino website were unavailable to me and it left me with, well, just another distribution running the Plasma 6.2 desktop.
To be fair to the project and its developers, the distribution worked well with my hardware and most the desktop experience was positive. Plasma, at least the X11 session, worked smoothly for me. I think it's unfortunate the Plasma Wayland session is the default as it still has some issues, but I'm glad the X11 session is available for when Wayland runs into its limitations.