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I'm in the process of making a distro that combines the way SteamOS makes Arch Linux stable and user-friendly WITH the performance optimizations of CachyOS (pu-239.org)
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As the title and the website say, I'm currently making a distro with the goal that you don't have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.

As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.

If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I'll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)

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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Why the name? I find distros with these names that are hard to say annoying to speak about, so I would suggest better name. Something short, catchy and easy to say for people with different languages. But don't make it too general either so that it is also easy to search for.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Okay, I'm just going to reply to this one really quick before sleeping, my intention was for this to be the short version of Plutonium-239 so it matches better with the logo. I kind of hope for this to be colloquially refered to as just Plutonium, but that itself as a name sounded boring. You are right to point it out and I agree, it was a placeholder at first however that name eventually grew on me too much and the domain is already purchased haha

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    Aha, I get it. And I like that its kinda nerdy. I dont think majority of the people will get it though. Just Plutonium would be fine, sounds actually real good and I think searching for plutonium os should be distinct enough (given the fact plutonium is not an element of everyday life). However if you still insist on the shorthand, what I saw people do, have a paragraph explaining what the shortcut means and how to call the os. Something like "the p-239 stands for plutonium and that is what we call the os - Plutonium" or variant of that. Maybe have it on the homepage even as a part of some baner or simly as second or third element under header. And it can also link to the full story (that it was a codename at first..)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Might I suggest Hesperium (earlier alternate name recommended by Fermi) or Plutium (a name Seaborg considered before deciding plutonium sounded better)?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Name could be Plutium, domain could be pu-239? @yxc999@lemmy.ml

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    Hmm, in my head I'm pretty set on Plutonium already, but I will take your advice and make the written out name more prominently visible so people will hopefully develop the habit of refering to it as "Plutonium". If I should decide to have multiple spins on it, I'll remember that Hesperium and such are cool alternate names, thank you for the ideas!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    my intention was for this to be the short version of Plutonium-239 so it matches better with the logo. I kind of hope for this to be colloquially refered to as just Plutonium

    My first thought when I saw your domain was not plutonium-239, it was P U 239, your website doesn’t reference plutonium until 8-9 paragraphs in.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Second comment because I just remembered: my initial idea was to simply call it Arch-Atomic, but just the fact of being atomic alone already would violate their trademark policy, which is why I went with my favorite isotope!

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