How many members does the development team behind Nitrux consist of? I think it’s a very cool project, but I tend to be cautious with distros that aren’t safe from the bus factor. While googling for answers; I’ve only seen the primary/main developer being named. Can anyone provide a conclusive answer on the matter?
Never heard of Nitrux? Somebody mind selling me on it?
But i would never distro-hop because I’m extremely loyal to distributionsAight, I actually don’t know a lot about it, but I guess something that looks like an answer is better than none. So without further a due.
First of all, Nitrux is quite unique, so I won’t be able to do it justice regardless. However, I’d say that it being an ‘immutable’ distro with OpenRC and focusing on AppImage (over Flatpak/Snap) is the primary one. It’s important to note that Nitrux’ model doesn’t allow you to install .deb packages natively at all. So in that regard, it’s one of the less flexible among its ‘immutable’ siblings. It does offer great support for Distrobox, so you can install your debs, rpms and from the AUR etc if you so desire within a container instead; you can even install other desktop environments with this. Waydroid works. AppArmor is configured. KDE Plasma looks fantastic on Nitrux, but they offer even more spice through their Maui Shell.
While I wouldn’t switch to it (I’m not the target audience, I have very specific needs and workflow, currently only truly accomplished on NixOS), this is one of the worthwhile projects, it seems. A lot of distros are just Debian, Ubuntu or something else with a DE slapped on top, some customisations and Calamares, but this has something more to offer, and I respect that. OpenRC, focus on AppImage, and to a lesser extent immutability, are very rare, so it’s good to have a system that offers these. I think this has some compelling selling points, for example it’s the only non-systemd immutable distro I know of, and it’s also the only distro I know of that’s pushing AppImages. We need such uniqueness, and it should be mentioned more often, and should be celebrated.
I’m veryy intrigued my Maui Shell, conceptually it looks like the best convergent shell I’ve ever seen.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like development is very active.
Seems like an interesting concept I appreciate the explanation! I like the idea of an immutable OS. I tried vanilla os but I had some coding projects that relied on my GPU and distrobox just wouldn’t give it access. Love the idea of an immutable distro but I’ll wait for this to mature and see how Vanilla does when it moves to Debian.
I’ve been interested in Nitrux ever since I read about it. I won’t switch to it because I went on the path of nix, but I’ll try it out on a spare PC.
