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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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[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

windows ain’t open source so that doesn’t apply

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being open source and having a lot of users does not guarantee you have more devs contributing to the project or that those devs are working towards efficiency.

Microsoft has way more devs working on it as a full time job than any open source project does.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a: yes it does.
b: garbage in, garbage out

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

B is the reason that A is wrong.

In fact, a project is more likely to get less efficient with a larger user base because that typically means more features which increases complexity.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

well according to C, the bigger a project gets the more an overly confident person on the internet will make broad, sweeping statements about things they don’t understand.

or in short: cool story, bro