GNOME OS ready for more extensive testing

While it’s still early days and it’s not recommended for non-technical audiences, GNOME OS is now ready for developers and early adopters who know how to deal with occasional bugs (and importantly, file those bugs when they occur).
↫ Tobias Bernard

This is great news, and means GNOME OS is progressing nicely. I’m a proponent of this and KDE’s equivalent project, because it allows the people working on GNOME and KDE to really showcase their work in optimal, controlled conditions. While I don’t see myself switching to a Flatpak-based, immutable distribution because they tend to not align with what I want out of an operating system, they’ll serve as great showcases.

There is a risk associated with these projects, though, as I highlighted the last time we talked about them.

Once such “official” GNOME and KDE Linux distributions exist, the projects run a real risk of only really caring about how well GNOME and KDE work there, while not caring as much, or even at all, how well they run everywhere else. I’m not sure how they intend to prevent this from happening, but from here, I can already see the drama erupting. I hope this is something they take into consideration.

We’ll have to wait and see if my worries are founded or not.