Respect to Raku the world class GE OS & devs of it

2 following
Replies
3
Views
231
Original Post
September 22, 2026 2:35 PM

Oh, I can see it's a good but fairly new, up-and-coming breakout Linux that I see people talking about in all kinds of tech blogs and sites. Now it's reaching so many people, and it's just that good for its uniqueness too; it's immutable. This is the first time you will see a dedicated gaming-first distro that also happens to be immutable, meaning it's highly fixable if it ever gets corrupted one day. This can do as well as any other, but I mean, Linux has a couple of full-on dedicated gaming distros, and everyone is doing well, even Pika. Simultaneously, they all have their fans who never want to switch to anything else. Pop!_OS is the first, or at least it has pioneered this as a trend in the tech/PC and Linux world. It is now mainstream enough, highlighted and showcased on larger-than-life YouTube tech channels such as Linux WGO, which easily gains millions of views weekly and even daily. Cachy is mainstream big time too. Pika is close; if I can tell, most are doing well in the presence of their fans. They're managing to pick up millions of users by being good and updated enough, even attracting fellow developer fans who can help contribute to working on them, as it's open source. This is going to do great; it will probably be highlighted and shown off by a giant tech YouTuber channel such as Linux someday, gaining a heavy, hefty fanbase and a loyal army that joins the Raku bandwagon/squad/team. Promotion goes a long way, but I mean, it's why TV commercials exist, so did radio advertisements. It was all made before most humans right now existed, and they knew the importance of it before they were even born. It's why ads are a part of 97% of every site and app. Promotion is how I found out about it and was inspired to use it. I didn't know it existed just because it exists.


Anyway, I got a fan request, which if I'm a supporter/fan, I should and would. I’d like it to have a desktop environment manager, such as Cachy. Cachy shouldn't be the only distro with this technique; it is an extremely high IQ technique. If you are a Linux user that is a distro hopper, you will see without a doubt that a desktop environment is as important as can be. It will determine how the system will work and how well it can work on what kind of hardware. Many act like all it is, is a different UI look with a few exclusive features here and there. No, it is way more than that. Linux is not Windows, so it's not just a different look like what WinHawk gives Windows and such; it is far more different in comparison. It is more than just a different look; it determines how your experience will be on that hardware and OS, as well as the general experience using that exact Linux distro. My second best request is to add something like JWM, a window manager, or MATE. MATE is my favorite desktop environment because it's the only DE I ever had, which saves brightness and volume state. I don't think people know how annoying it is to change the brightness and volume every time you restart. You can forget, and you might be watching something you shouldn't with max volume or watching a thing with max brightness, which might cause harsh eye strain without even noticing because you did it so many times; you thought you did it already but it slipped your mind, programmed to always keep doing it every time. How it ends up as a forgotten routine at that time, as you are distracted by whatever you might be doing. XFCE is fine, but Cinnamon isn’t very bad to use, nor is Enlightenment or LXQt. I'd much prefer if you added MATE, and that's why I explained it so precisely. It’s not UI appearance or anything mediocre; it's all because of what it does by saving the exact state of brightness levels and volume, which, if I can see, there is not a single Linux UI DE that I know of that will ever do it away from MATE. It is one thing I hated about Linux until I used/found MATE in Cachy. If Trinity can save brightness and volume Level settings state or ukui I won't even mind it instead as it's all I need from a de but I am sure you will be smart enough to know this needs a light desktop -enviroment as it will help to run well on a old hardware extremely well they don't all work the same they all got core stuff that results in various levels of performance it all depends hard Linux is not Linux and every desktop ui Linux has ls different of anybody that says Linux is Linux I'd a de is just a de as any other, but with a few things are dumb using Linux as much as I do I surely know that's far from the case.performance is about the biggest thing as it comes to using computers and gaming edition distros is what people now adays use for high end Levels of peek computing performance

Reply
September 22, 2026 3:14 PM
TheKingØFTech wrote:
Oh, I can see it's a good but fairly new, up-and-coming breakout Linux that I see people talking about in all kinds of tech blogs and sites. Now it's reaching so many people, and it's just that good for its uniqueness too; it's immutable. This is the first time you will see a dedicated gaming-first distro that also happens to be immutable, meaning it's highly fixable if it ever gets corrupted one day. This can do as well as any other, but I mean, Linux has a couple of full-on dedicated gaming distros, and everyone is doing well, even Pika. Simultaneously, they all have their fans who never want to switch to anything else. Pop!_OS is the first, or at least it has pioneered this as a trend in the tech/PC and Linux world. It is now mainstream enough, highlighted and showcased on larger-than-life YouTube tech channels such as Linux WGO, which easily gains millions of views weekly and even daily. Cachy is mainstream big time too. Pika is close; if I can tell, most are doing well in the presence of their fans. They're managing to pick up millions of users by being good and updated enough, even attracting fellow developer fans who can help contribute to working on them, as it's open source. This is going to do great; it will probably be highlighted and shown off by a giant tech YouTuber channel such as Linux someday, gaining a heavy, hefty fanbase and a loyal army that joins the Raku bandwagon/squad/team. Promotion goes a long way, but I mean, it's why TV commercials exist, so did radio advertisements. It was all made before most humans right now existed, and they knew the importance of it before they were even born. It's why ads are a part of 97% of every site and app. Promotion is how I found out about it and was inspired to use it. I didn't know it existed just because it exists.

Anyway, I got a fan request, which if I'm a supporter/fan, I should and would. I’d like it to have a desktop environment manager, such as Cachy. Cachy shouldn't be the only distro with this technique; it is an extremely high IQ technique. If you are a Linux user that is a distro hopper, you will see without a doubt that a desktop environment is as important as can be. It will determine how the system will work and how well it can work on what kind of hardware. Many act like all it is, is a different UI look with a few exclusive features here and there. No, it is way more than that. Linux is not Windows, so it's not just a different look like what WinHawk gives Windows and such; it is far more different in comparison. It is more than just a different look; it determines how your experience will be on that hardware and OS, as well as the general experience using that exact Linux distro. My second best request is to add something like JWM, a window manager, or MATE. MATE is my favorite desktop environment because it's the only DE I ever had, which saves brightness and volume state. I don't think people know how annoying it is to change the brightness and volume every time you restart. You can forget, and you might be watching something you shouldn't with max volume or watching a thing with max brightness, which might cause harsh eye strain without even noticing because you did it so many times; you thought you did it already but it slipped your mind, programmed to always keep doing it every time. How it ends up as a forgotten routine at that time, as you are distracted by whatever you might be doing. XFCE is fine, but Cinnamon isn’t very bad to use, nor is Enlightenment or LXQt. I'd much prefer if you added MATE, and that's why I explained it so precisely. It’s not UI appearance or anything mediocre; it's all because of what it does by saving the exact state of brightness levels and volume, which, if I can see, there is not a single Linux UI DE that I know of that will ever do it away from MATE. It is one thing I hated about Linux until I used/found MATE in Cachy. If Trinity can save brightness and volume Level settings state or ukui I won't even mind it instead as it's all I need from a de but I am sure you will be smart enough to know this needs a light desktop -enviroment as it will help to run well on a old hardware extremely well they don't all work the same they all got core stuff that results in various levels of performance it all depends hard Linux is not Linux and every desktop ui Linux has ls different of anybody that says Linux is Linux I'd a de is just a de as any other, but with a few things are dumb using Linux as much as I do I surely know that's far from the case.performance is about the biggest thing as it comes to using computers and gaming edition distros is what people now adays use for high end Levels of peek computing performance

We have  the option to swap the DEs we have images for in the software center on system page. and soon a dedicated RakuOS system app, and honesly as small as our team is atm its impossible for us to support every DE and WM out there offically but we do have a minimal image and installer on the way just for this

Reply
September 22, 2026 4:16 PM

Yeah, I know, it can be hard just being such a small team of developers right now and supporting all of these known or unknown distributions. But I was trying to say it should make way for a small distribution that will run well on any computer with ultra-low specs. My laptop works fairly poorly with Cachy; it will work the same with any distro. I'm sure if it works that badly, Cinnamon works fairly well—it's not the best or worst. It can do at best, Cinnamon the same thing but slightly worse. Budgie is the same about it, but with XFCE and MATE. Boy, oh boy, this bottom-of-the-barrel-level laptop flies like an angry jet. Windows is absolutely a no-go for this laptop; I saw that the very first day I bought it. Zorin was good, but with all the updates, including this and that, it stopped being good by 2025, especially late and mid-2025. It's the first option I thought of when I realized Windows froze up badly and I couldn't use it. I loved it, but as a human, after a while, you may get bored and want something else, so I tried a few, and boy, were some of those absolutely garbage. In fact, some completely froze my laptop and wouldn't unfreeze until a reboot, and it would literally freeze again inevitably. That specific distro was BlendOS. I had it because of Waydroid. Blend isn't for such a weak laptop because it's not a gaming distro; it's a multi-Linux sub-variant, mixing sub-variants on one distro: Debian, Arch, Fedora, and such. Only a gaming-type OS works absolutely flawlessly on a laptop like this. It's an Acer ES 15; it's not at the bottom of the barrel at this point, bro—it's under it; it's ground level. If it wasn't for Linux-special gaming variants of Linux, I'd sell it as soon as I bought it. I thank God every day for gaming distros I thank God for Linux as. Whole too but especially these special kinds they're much different from regular usage kind by confirmed experience on one of the worse laptops ever made in human and technology history so bad I can't even imagine in a mind of infinite imaginations how anything can be worse than this

Reply to this discussion