We at Orlovsky Consulting GbR very excited and happy about current progress of custom T2 Linux build.
At the moment we still figuring out , what is the best approach for working on Linux desktop.
I Alexander Orlovsky CEO of Orlovsky Consulting GbR , in my personaly opinion the modern Linux desktop is big there multiple different approaches and it is hard to satisfy all needs and tastes, but
what seems more reasonable and realistic to integrate with.
Only those 2 window managers in my personal opinion are most reliable UI , sure some people would prefer modern KDE or GNOME , but i find them and i mean theirs community of developers hard to work and hard to collaborate and hard to communicate.
What we at custom T2 Linux wouldn't do, that to include very ambgios window managers, which require big build pipelines and even bigger building rigs.
What about steam , wine support ?
I think gaming should be possible , but you need to understand first we build window managers , test them , make sure they are all stable
Vanila upstream T2 Linux is very rollable, meaning they always on bleeding edge, but custom T2 Linux build by definition we and our intetion to be a stable base , we just not blindly add packages with hope that it works. We care about quality and added packages only then when we assured and safe that it wont break any other package dependencies.
So here is our plan and current state of project:
- 1. Community decides which X server we should integrate: => [X] Decision made , we will use Wayland! Watch our video about!
- 2. We start building custom Linux desktop build as we at Orlovsky Consulting GbR planned. We still looking for sponsors! [X] Initial hardware for XServer dev work obtained!
- 2.1 Building the X-Server Wayland , initial requirements engineering, analysis of complexity and first draft for the further development [ ]
- 3. We integrate with TDE window manager. Establish communication like with TDE .
- 4. We integrate with XFCE window manager. Establish communication like with XFCE .
- 5. We start building everything which needed for steam and wine software support. This only happens only after those 2 window managers are integrated in our distro.
- 6. We start to promote our version of modern Linux desktop worldwide. We already doing this!
- 7. We ignore KDE and or Gnome dev community and any Linux corporation, because they tend to be very tribal this days. Doing this , we dont need "modern" KDE or Gnome in our destribution
- 7.1 We find and cooperate with any other developer/s or Linux distribution/s which share our technology views and values.
- 8. Finally we collect feedback from community and our commercial clients. Already done, most Linux users prefer to use Wayland
- 9. We promote opensource and cooperation between different opensource projects, we ensure that our solution for Linux desktop stays stable and adaptable for any future user feature requests.
The end game should be we finally put very nice and quality desktop Linux , which runs on a lot of different x86_64 platforms and use huge amount of freely available packages