Been working on an Linux distro for the last 2 years off and on. Will probably be ready to release it to the wild at some point early next yet. I was wondering what people wanted out of a desktop/laptop OS geared toward the creation of content like audio production, video editing, programming, drawing and other forms of content creation. As we all know it's a huge pain to set-up systems for this currently.

I plan to provide a lot of things out of the box geared towards these hobbies (both production and consuming such content). A list of applications you use on the regular especially those you're forced to get from git repos and compile from source would be very helpful to me.

Current plans/status;
-Will run on Linux kernel. AMD64 is the only supported platform at the moment but should be easy to port to other archs. Technically, can run on them now with some simple config file changes.
-Kernel tuned for realtime scheduling along with many other performance tweaks
-Package manager that supports both using binaries and compiling from source. Ability to custom compile/run-time options. GUI to manage it if you don't want to use command line
-Multi-monitor support out of the box with GUI application to manage them
-New light DE based on Openbox along with some modifications I've made to it (can use most other DEs though if you want)
-A simple WM for "fall back" admin tasks when you need to fix something and the regular DE doesn't work. Or for people that just prefer a WM (ability to replace with anything you want of course)
-Consistent look and feel across Qt/gtk/other applications
-All dev and multimedia tools installed by default (but you can exclude stuff if you really want)
-ffmpeg/MLT/vapoursynth installed by default with a nice GUI application for editing and encoding video
-Various audio tools installed by default
-other misc. things like pre-installed applications for viewing and managing stuff like your manga, doujin and media collection
-Support for running Windows software out of the box (pre-configured wine) and support for running them in VM out of the box like native applications. GUI to manage both
-blah blah blah

The most important thing;
-A small base system that you can install on most anything.
-An installer for less technically inclined (my grandmother should be able to use it to browser the internet or play an old Windows game)
-Ability to manually install for people that want that and to strip it down in the "suckless" way

I could go on but I'll stop. I really need ideas about what applications to include for people that mainly archive and consume content and from people that create it.

I'll spare you the details of the base system. Just going to leave it at this isn't going to be a Fedora/Ubuntu clone. It'll be Linux but more akin to how a *BSD works. It won't limit you (can run Docker/Flatpak and such) but it'll also attempt to avoid some of the bad things that's been happening within the Linux world lately. At least in the base/default install.

Please let me know if anyone is interested in helping out with testing or in time helping me host repo mirrors.

Oh one last thing: I plan to support adding third party repos that could do things like host your favorite VNs, old games, legacy abandonware and warez in general. Not on offical repos of course. But if someone wanted to do it I won't stop them. In fact, I couldn't because I plan to add a way to host repos that aren't on ftp/git/http.

Basically, I'm looking to make a modern Amiga OS running on the Linux kernel.

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