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pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop (9to5linux.com)
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pearOS, a Linux distro that aims to look and behave like Apple’s macOS, is once again in active development with a new base, design, installer, and more.

French developer David Tavares initially created Pear OS back in 2011, based on Ubuntu and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The initial release, Pear OS 3, was based on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and shipped with Linux kernel 3.0.

While Ubuntu was using the Unity interface back then, Pear OS offered a Mac OS X look-alike with a dock. In 2012, David Tavares released a Debian Edition of Pear OS, and a month after that, the developer renamed Pear OS to Comice OS, and the next version was renamed once again to Pear OS Linux a few months later that year.

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[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I often look at these small purpose built niche distros and think to myself "this could just be a flake".

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 10 points 1 week ago

you're not wrong. A lot of them could simply be flakes or just cloned dotfiles. Just look at Omarchy, that's basically Arch with in installer and dotfiles.

If I'm looking to use a distro I want something that improves whatever it's based on, like CachyOS for example that has it's own repos and kernel. Distros that essentially just tweak GNOME or KDE I'm going to pass on. Like this PearOS. you can just download virtually any distro and install Plasma and make it look the same.