Trying to run as a live distro from an 8GB USB stick.
The boot GUI started OK and began loading the OS as expected.
What followed was the usual torrent of process notifications until:
[ OK ] started session 1 of user Blend
;
;
;
[ OK ] started session 258 of user Blend
[ OK ] finished refresh pacman mirrorlist with Reflecta.
[ OK ] reached target multi-user system
[ OK ] reached target graphical interface.
This was followed by many minutes of flashing screen, which after it stopped was followed by an endlessly flashing cursor.
So; not so clever.
Format USB stick and try something else.
Version: 3 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-07-08 Votes: 2
This is one of the most revolutionary distros for years!
Great work done by developers and it will be only better and better :)
KDE works like a charm, everything is so fast, yet so stable and secure. Mix of packages from Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch is like Linux user dream.
My PC
I5 10210u
16GB of RAM DDR4
256 NVme SSD
Can't wait for new releases. As for now everything works like a boss. I was not a fan of immutable distros but BlendOS made me change my opinion. I like it,and with a few scripts I can customize it how I want because KDE is on board
This is very cool immutable and blending, even android apps work fine!
I hope they keep on working on this and updating and fine tuning, yay works too after installing, even without container, I like the arch base :-)
I wish the developers good luck en good fortune and hope they have time to work on this fine distribution, it seems to work with overlays for the immutable part, some more explanation would be fine ;-)
They say you can also build your own DE .iso, I could not find that yet, but l will keep on looking
Giving it a 5 for potential, lost 5 because it was clearly poorly tested out the door, some bugs are glaring and could've been caught with some closed early testing. The pieces are all there BUT only the base OS works. As of just this writing here's what works
-Installer
-base OS
-Containers for Fedora/Ubuntu, etc
-Updating OS (with caveats, immutability needs to be disabled as there's a bug currently).
What doesn't:
-System Update option should be available rather than updating through CLI. Better clarity in what is being updated (system or containers?).
-Android stuff
-Web Store
-Immutablity (requires removing blend from mkinitcpio.conf for now to update)
-I'm sure there's more I missed blendos github will have more
The lack of BlendOS documentation and using Telegram as a support forum makes this not a good option for a community. Forums work as they create an archivable living document of issues and resolutions over time. While the Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora bits have lots of support, that helps somewhat but there needs to be some links on the main site to any issues that a user can resolve. BUT BlendOS is a BLEND of various OSes and thus needs some more specialized support. I think it requires lots more polish before I'd call it usable as a daily driver. BUT it's got REALLY solid potential as an OS. I'm definitely keeping an eye on it as it improves. That it uses KDE Plasma for me personally is a nice touch as I like KDE over Gnome, an nice plus would be to add more DEs or a tool that scripts installs for other installs.
While I can fix most Linux problems on my own, it's nicer to have a "just works" OS (of which there are quite a few already). Again the 5 stars are because I feel like this OS came out WAYY too early before many of the features were properly baked, the lack of proper documentation and a lack of a forum. Discord and Telegram are great for chats and hot takes, not for proper support. Lots of good info plus repetitive questions which could be linked in a forum post instead (even if people still ask the same questions).
A good Linux distro IMHO requires a solid but WIP distro that's at least potentially usable as a 1.0 daily driver (BlendOS is in 2.0) AND a solid community infrastructure for support which has been the success model for other more well known distros. The potential is here given the creator of the Distro, Rudra Saraswat has created a number of amazing tools for Ubuntu and even Ubuntu Unity. I truly look forward to seeing this distro progress to the point it's my daily driver.
Is like it sounds... too good to be truth. Zero documentation, not even man pages, poor community. All the package compatibility is not like they say also, Android and AUR at least,dont work every app, just some. I like the idea, but theres a lot of work to do yet.
Is no more than arch linux, after you install, all you have is arch linux + kde with some features that don't work, and some others that you don't know how it works. I mean they don't even write a man page for its main command 'blend'... seriously? Also there is no sem version is hard to know what is the state of the distro. No Readme neither.... LOL
It's a good idea and it ran smooth but it has a few quirks just couldn't get past. If I install something I should be able to find it. I don't mind if I have to reboot as long as it pops up and is usable. My video player has to play for more than 10 seconds. That was the killer for me. I downloaded different packages from different package managers. I thought that this was finally the distro that might put the linux community on par with at least windows 7. United as one Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu. All the tools under one roof finally. It needs a bit more tweaking. I think it can be great someday. Just not today.
KDE Plsma iso boots until a menu appears and then there's only one option referencing BIOS (dont remember it well), i choose it and then it doesnt boot anymore.
GNOME iso boots and then it stops when theres a mention to Gnome Display Manager (i think it's the correct name) and it doesnt go far beyond that, so i have to reboot my machine again. I wanted so bad to see how this distro looks like and also because of it's rich features, but it seems it will not be today haha. Hope you'll fix this issues! Thank you.
Well for the moment i can't blame anyone because the distro is not mature yet, i mean it brings something new i love the idea, but it needs a lot of work and maintenance to delivere a good final product.
The system is full of bugs
Still can't manage to run android apps or the app stores (aurora, f-droid)
The system is very unstable
And i'm also wondering if the use of multiple packages managers (and the containers stuff) will affect the overall system performance
I hope the devs puts more effort on this project because it looks very promesing
it was certainly a good idea that to date still cannot find a way to reach a single package manager or at least be able to use the others, I think that when repo and package manager are unified, linux will take over the world on the desktop as well
but have you tested it before distributing it publicly?
great idea to use multiple package managers, but i tried to install it in vmware and avast blocks several phishing sites during installation with "jade gui" !!
there is no checksum on the download site (git).
Bad start to a good idea
Very interesting distro idea. Although, on vmware workstation it doesn't boot, but managed to boot it through virtualbox with "EFI" option ticked. The problem is that didn't managed to launch neither Aurora store neither F-Droid (thought they look like they were installed, they get deinstalled as soon as i hit the "open" option. Haven't tried the terminal package manager. I guess the future will tell how well this distro will evolve. Maybe keep the focus first on the current bugs, then as a feature it would be awesome to see a unified package manager to install packages from other distros.
Trying to run as a live distro from an 8GB USB stick.
The boot GUI started OK and began loading the OS as expected.
What followed was the usual torrent of process notifications until:
[ OK ] started session 1 of user Blend
;
;
;
[ OK ] started session 258 of user Blend
[ OK ] finished refresh pacman mirrorlist with Reflecta.
[ OK ] reached target multi-user system
[ OK ] reached target graphical interface.
This was followed by many minutes of flashing screen, which after it stopped was followed by an endlessly flashing cursor.
This is one of the most revolutionary distros for years!
Great work done by developers and it will be only better and better :)
KDE works like a charm, everything is so fast, yet so stable and secure. Mix of packages from Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch is like Linux user dream.
My PC
I5 10210u
16GB of RAM DDR4
256 NVme SSD
Can't wait for new releases. As for now everything works like a boss. I was not a fan of immutable distros but BlendOS made me change my opinion. I like it,and with a few scripts I can customize it how I want because KDE is on board
This is very cool immutable and blending, even android apps work fine!
I hope they keep on working on this and updating and fine tuning, yay works too after installing, even without container, I like the arch base :-)
I wish the developers good luck en good fortune and hope they have time to work on this fine distribution, it seems to work with overlays for the immutable part, some more explanation would be fine ;-)
They say you can also build your own DE .iso, I could not find that yet, but l will keep on looking
Giving it a 5 for potential, lost 5 because it was clearly poorly tested out the door, some bugs are glaring and could've been caught with some closed early testing. The pieces are all there BUT only the base OS works. As of just this writing here's what works
-Installer
-base OS
-Containers for Fedora/Ubuntu, etc
-Updating OS (with caveats, immutability needs to be disabled as there's a bug currently).
What doesn't:
-System Update option should be available rather than updating through CLI. Better clarity in what is being updated (system or containers?).
-Android stuff
-Web Store
-Immutablity (requires removing blend from mkinitcpio.conf for now to update)
-I'm sure there's more I missed blendos github will have more
The lack of BlendOS documentation and using Telegram as a support forum makes this not a good option for a community. Forums work as they create an archivable living document of issues and resolutions over time. While the Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora bits have lots of support, that helps somewhat but there needs to be some links on the main site to any issues that a user can resolve. BUT BlendOS is a BLEND of various OSes and thus needs some more specialized support. I think it requires lots more polish before I'd call it usable as a daily driver. BUT it's got REALLY solid potential as an OS. I'm definitely keeping an eye on it as it improves. That it uses KDE Plasma for me personally is a nice touch as I like KDE over Gnome, an nice plus would be to add more DEs or a tool that scripts installs for other installs.
While I can fix most Linux problems on my own, it's nicer to have a "just works" OS (of which there are quite a few already). Again the 5 stars are because I feel like this OS came out WAYY too early before many of the features were properly baked, the lack of proper documentation and a lack of a forum. Discord and Telegram are great for chats and hot takes, not for proper support. Lots of good info plus repetitive questions which could be linked in a forum post instead (even if people still ask the same questions).
A good Linux distro IMHO requires a solid but WIP distro that's at least potentially usable as a 1.0 daily driver (BlendOS is in 2.0) AND a solid community infrastructure for support which has been the success model for other more well known distros. The potential is here given the creator of the Distro, Rudra Saraswat has created a number of amazing tools for Ubuntu and even Ubuntu Unity. I truly look forward to seeing this distro progress to the point it's my daily driver.
Is like it sounds... too good to be truth. Zero documentation, not even man pages, poor community. All the package compatibility is not like they say also, Android and AUR at least,dont work every app, just some. I like the idea, but theres a lot of work to do yet.
Is no more than arch linux, after you install, all you have is arch linux + kde with some features that don't work, and some others that you don't know how it works. I mean they don't even write a man page for its main command 'blend'... seriously? Also there is no sem version is hard to know what is the state of the distro. No Readme neither.... LOL
It's a good idea and it ran smooth but it has a few quirks just couldn't get past. If I install something I should be able to find it. I don't mind if I have to reboot as long as it pops up and is usable. My video player has to play for more than 10 seconds. That was the killer for me. I downloaded different packages from different package managers. I thought that this was finally the distro that might put the linux community on par with at least windows 7. United as one Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu. All the tools under one roof finally. It needs a bit more tweaking. I think it can be great someday. Just not today.
KDE Plsma iso boots until a menu appears and then there's only one option referencing BIOS (dont remember it well), i choose it and then it doesnt boot anymore.
GNOME iso boots and then it stops when theres a mention to Gnome Display Manager (i think it's the correct name) and it doesnt go far beyond that, so i have to reboot my machine again. I wanted so bad to see how this distro looks like and also because of it's rich features, but it seems it will not be today haha. Hope you'll fix this issues! Thank you.
Well for the moment i can't blame anyone because the distro is not mature yet, i mean it brings something new i love the idea, but it needs a lot of work and maintenance to delivere a good final product.
The system is full of bugs
Still can't manage to run android apps or the app stores (aurora, f-droid)
The system is very unstable
And i'm also wondering if the use of multiple packages managers (and the containers stuff) will affect the overall system performance
I hope the devs puts more effort on this project because it looks very promesing
Very interesting distro idea. Although, on vmware workstation it doesn't boot, but managed to boot it through virtualbox with "EFI" option ticked. The problem is that didn't managed to launch neither Aurora store neither F-Droid (thought they look like they were installed, they get deinstalled as soon as i hit the "open" option. Haven't tried the terminal package manager. I guess the future will tell how well this distro will evolve. Maybe keep the focus first on the current bugs, then as a feature it would be awesome to see a unified package manager to install packages from other distros.
it was certainly a good idea that to date still cannot find a way to reach a single package manager or at least be able to use the others, I think that when repo and package manager are unified, linux will take over the world on the desktop as well
but have you tested it before distributing it publicly?
great idea to use multiple package managers, but i tried to install it in vmware and avast blocks several phishing sites during installation with "jade gui" !!
there is no checksum on the download site (git).
Bad start to a good idea
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