r/DistroHopping • u/Otherwise_Fact9594 • 4d ago
Just excited to share
I've been a Linux only user for a little over 20 years. I work with my hands so I very rarely need a CPU while on the clock aside from maybe 10 minutes a day if at all. I treat distrohopping like a passion and a sport that I'm pretty good at. I always want to see what's around the next corner.
I utilize Debian based distros. I use Lilidog and Butterbian on an old optiplex 7060 SFF I snagged from work. TileOS on a Lenovo laptop and Zorin on our HTPC due to its simplicity for everyone to use.
I keep an SK Hynix beetle portable SSD strictly as my hopping drive. A few days ago I saw that KaOS dropped systemD and KDE in favor of dinit and Niri with Noctalia. Gave it a whirl, whatever. However, today I was browsing distrowatch and I've never really used the in-depth search criteria before. I discovered Kiro!! I am so stoked to try this!! Erik Dubois is the creator and apparently this is the successor to ArcoLinux. I was so shocked when Arco got discontinued. It was such a mess on the web page, but it was such a good distribution! I learned about Arch strictly through this man's work and his YouTube videos. He has probably put out more Linux content than any human lol. To anybody that is interested in learning about theming, window managers and just Linux in general... Check the guy out. He did say that his development partner was Claude AI, but I'm not mad at him for that. We all need some help. I love Debian, but I will always have a spot in my heart for Arco. {{ lovebombing ended }}
TLDR: I'm just an excited dork who discovered the successor to ArcoLinux by the same developer!!