FunOS's team describes their distro as "A minimal, fast, and secure Linux distribution built on Ubuntu LTS". I'm not sure what "secure" mean, but it's undoubtedly a minimal and fast distribution.
I run it on an 12 years old Dell Optiplex computer (8 Go of RAM) for essentially 2D drawing (with a graphics tablet) and 3D modeling, and have never encountered any hiccup so far, be it with the LTS or the "interim" version. It consumes around 300-350 Mo of RAM at idle.
If you feel the need for, the default JWM Window Manager is easy to configure... as long as you make the effort to read the JWM's docs : change the ad hoc xml config file, and you got your own key bindings on a customized environment, for example a nice Rofi launcher with Alt-F2 as a shortcut. Easy-peasy, even if like me you're not technical inclined at all.
There's a lot of themes available and some wallpapers to choose from a menu. The documentation of the web site is nicely laid out, concise and wonderfully clear.
The packages come from the official Ubuntu repository, so there is little chance you won't find your favorite application. It's a "snap-free" distro by the way.
Any con ? Well, FunOs is less-known than the other few lightweight distros, so maybe there is a risk that this relative anonymity will curb it's development :=(
FunOS's team describes their distro as "A minimal, fast, and secure Linux distribution built on Ubuntu LTS". I'm not sure what "secure" mean, but it's undoubtedly a minimal and fast distribution.
I run it on an 12 years old Dell Optiplex computer (8 Go of RAM) for essentially 2D drawing (with a graphics tablet) and 3D modeling, and have never encountered any hiccup so far, be it with the LTS or the "interim" version. It consumes around 300-350 Mo of RAM at idle.
If you feel the need for, the default JWM Window Manager is easy to configure... as long as you make the effort to read the JWM's docs : change the ad hoc xml config file, and you got your own key bindings on a customized environment, for example a nice Rofi launcher with Alt-F2 as a shortcut. Easy-peasy, even if like me you're not technical inclined at all.
There's a lot of themes available and some wallpapers to choose from a menu. The documentation of the web site is nicely laid out, concise and wonderfully clear.
The packages come from the official Ubuntu repository, so there is little chance you won't find your favorite application. It's a "snap-free" distro by the way.
Any con ? Well, FunOs is less-known than the other few lightweight distros, so maybe there is a risk that this relative anonymity will curb it's development :=(
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