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I wanted to see what exactly is this project. There is no way to go back to vanillaos.org from handbook.vanillaos.org without manually editing the URL bar, at least on mobile. This is so frustrating.


For the benefit of anyone else who did this too:

Vanilla OS is an immutable and atomic Ubuntu Linux-based Point Release distribution, that receives updates at the right time, neither before nor after, without sacrificing security and functionality.


Wait... Didn't they just switch from Ubuntu to Debian?

EDIT: https://www.omglinux.com/vanilla-os-switch-to-debian/


I wish much more in my life would be at the right time, neither before nor after.


"A wizard is never late, Frodo. Nor is he early. He arrives exactly when VanillaOS means him to."

-- Gandalf the Grey


Everything already is. It’s a perspective.


It also has an almost absurdly calming and friendly visual brand. Arguably, that has nothing to do with the product but ... it also kinda does.

I'm a Silverblue guy right now, and that has largely cured me of distro hopping, but NixOS and Vanilla continue to tempt.


It is so frustrating when there is nothing at the top that forwards to the main page,e.g., a project name or logo.

I managed it by clicking on the How to Install guide and then on the download image link.



Since it is such a common need, maybe there should be a browser button for it instead of requiring every page to code their own?


With vimium you hi gU to go to the root of the page. Availlable for FireFox and Chromium based browsers. Content user.

https://github.com/philc/vimium


The return of the home button. :)


Yeah, this is a common problem I run into with blog.whatever, forum.whatever, or wiki.whatever pages. They never bother customizing Wordpress, MediaWiki, etc so that you can navigate to the main site. Fer chrissakes, the Web was more usable in 1998.



The funny thing is even if you use the provided search funcion to ask that question nothing will come up.

On a side note half the time I don't even understand what the project is. The descriptions are often buzzwords sandwiched in untethered abstractions.


hey - you figured it out!




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