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by solarkraft 1917 days ago
> only support for high-end pcs and laptops

Why? This sounds like it's supposed to be inefficient.

> limited drivers support to a small set of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other common devices (based on who's willing to pay)

Also why? The Linux kernel has all the support for free.

That it's open source would be a precondition for me. The closest to what you're proposing is Elementary OS, which I would likely pay for if I was still using it.

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The reason behind high-end is because it takes additional developer hours to support old computers.

Linux kernel does support all for free, but we want the booting, and the experience to be smooth. So we'll not use any code from Linux Kernel that slows the computer unless its absolutely needed by that small set of people.

The goal here is to make an opensource operating system that doesn't suck the way even ElementaryOS does. The battery life is bad unless you can spend 2 weeks optimizing every part of the kernel and OS. The experience is bad, lots of bugs spread around the distro.