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Review: EasyOS 7.0
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I think it is important to keep in mind that EasyOS is not meant to be a mainstream distribution. It is a testing ground, an experimental laboratory, a place where packaging and container technologies can be tested. I probably wouldn't run EasyOS on its own as a daily workstation operating system, that isn't where its focus lies.
The distribution's focus is working with containers and this it does well - unusually well, surprisingly well, remarkably well. The distribution makes creating, running, and switching between container environments a super simple, point-and-click experience. It also makes working with containers virtually seamless - it's just a click of a desktop icon to launch a new environment. This is so much easier than any other container tool I've encountered, even dedicated, graphical applications such as BoxBuddy.
Six years ago I wrote about EasyOS 1.0: "EasyOS may be experimental at this stage, but it is setting the bar higher for portable applications, at least from the point of view of being easy of use, and it is making containers easier than any other distribution I have used to date. I hope EasyOS's contained desktop applications migrate to other distributions as they have the potential to make users a lot safer with virtually no additional effort."
Here we are, six years later, and EasyOS is still a long way ahead of every other distribution in terms of creating and managing container environments. On EasyOS a container isn't just something we can access through a specific application or command line tools, it's built into the flow of the desktop, it's nearly effortless. Containers act like application windows, environments are nearly effortless to create and access. Other distributions should take note and follow EasyOS's example - this is how isolated environments, experiments, and sandboxed desktop applications should work. EasyOS is the only Linux distribution that is getting it right, in my opinion. Not only that, they've been the only ones getting it right, while showing the world how, for six years. It's time everyone else caught up.