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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.