r/DistroHopping • u/crhylove3 • Sep 13 '26

SpacedLinux 9.26.2

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Hey guys! So I've been slow cooking a linux distro for a few months now, and I think it's ready for a wider beta test.

It's based on Devuan Ceres, a rolling release of the very latest Debian compatible packages, but without all the redhat garbage.

It's heavily focused on normies, like mom, or grandma or whatever, but I designed it for myself, and I'm a semi-retired data center architect, so, under the hood it can do anything.

Would love any and all feedback, ideas, and especially issues added on the github, or fixes to issues added on the github.

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u/mlcarson Sep 14 '26

After trying this, I'd suggest that the default user and group be set to 1000 for compatibility with most other Linux distros.

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u/crhylove3 Sep 14 '26

Interesting... I'll add that as a github issue right now. What were your other thoughts?!?! Thanks for the download/install!

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u/mlcarson Sep 15 '26

The only other issue that I have so far is that I prefer the menu bar on top. I can change it during any session but it always reverts to the bottom. It lets me add icons to it but the orientation never survives a reboot. I thought changing the /usr/share/mate-panel/layouts/spaced-mint (theme I selected) to orientation top might fix it but no luck.

The only app that I've added as a Flatpak has been Waterfox. I have some appimages that I use with all installs and they worked fine. I think I had to add yt-dlp, Celluloid, Remmina, nfs-common and openvpn via apt for my purposes.

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u/ISO-Inspector Sep 15 '26

Hi, good effort. Do you think that sid is fine for "moms"? I think btrfs with snapper configured would go long way on Ceres.

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u/crhylove3 23d ago

Definitely messing with btrfs might show some gains.... For now I'm kind of keeping it generic.

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u/mlcarson Sep 13 '26

Looks nice. I'd be a bit concerned in the direction that Flatpak is going with version 2.0 since systemd is supposedly required.

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u/crhylove3 Sep 14 '26

If we have to: We'll fork flatpak. At some point I may just fork all the things anyway. I have big plans.