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'Don't be Afraid to Contribute': Mirko Brombin Talks about Vanilla OS and Other Future Projects

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 06, 2022

Open Hardware: Sparkfun, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Purism

There are many interesting personalities in the Linux and open-source world.

We aim to interact with them and share their stories/thoughts with you. While we did a few interviews in 2021, we are resuming the mission to share insightful conversations with amazing folks in our open-source and Linux universe.

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Vanilla OS was born mainly out of a need of mine and a desire to experiment. I have been a Linux user for many years and have tried many distributions. They always suffered from the lack of certain features and concepts that led me to compulsively distro-hop. In recent years I have been a happy user of Silverblue, a distribution that made me explore the benefits of immutable systems. Silverblue is a fantastic project. It's one of the most solid distributions I have tried. However, it does not fully meet my needs. Maintaining Bottles often requires me to play games for testing purposes, and having an NVIDIA GPU, I have had quite a few problems with Silverblue, from driver installation to constant driver breakage and a distinctly noticeable drop in performance.

Let's be clear, NVIDIA is a problem in every distribution but there is much that can be done to improve the quality of life for users using these GPUs, such as guiding driver installation, pre-configuring the setup for Optimus (Integrated+Dedicated) laptops, and allowing PRIME profile switching in an easy way. To date, only Ubuntu and derivatives have been pre-configured for this workflow.

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