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Well, Mint could just fall back to LMDE if Ubuntu starts going in the same direction as RHEL and starts account-walling their source code and blocking redistribution under the penalty of an account ban, but I don't know about other Ubuntu clones.
Many Debian developers work for Ubuntu IIRC.
Look at rocky linux and alma linux even if they restrict code, ubuntu foss won't die, but debian base seem more sustainable.
But KDE Neon :(
Kde is building their own non ubuntu Linux distro, pretty cool imo
Oooh, what is it called? Does it have a name yet?
Note that KDE Linux is completely different from Neon:
/usris a read-only, atomically updatederofsvolume backed by a single file, allowing rollback to any of the last 5 OS imagesI love the direction they're going with it, but I personally won't be running it because I like to tinker.
https://linux.kde.org/#what-kind-of-base-technology-does-kde-linux-use
They disagree with calling it arch based:
They can disagree, but if I take your recipe and then change it, no matter how much, my starting point is still based on your recipe….
Absolutely, it looks like it's mostly managing expectations that come with calling something arch based.
In your recipe analogy, calling your new cookie recipe, which you based on your granny's chocolate chip cookie recipe, "chocolate chip cookie based", but ending up with a raisin cookie (you removed the chocolate chips) would be false advertising, even if technically true in the way you describe.
I probably won't use it for the simple fact that it will likely use the rolling release style of updates. I am more of a stable release fella myself, so I think I'll stick to LMDE.
Yeah KDE linux