Hi, this is the founder of the Oreon Linux distro. Most people haven’t heard of Oreon, as it is quite new in the list of existing distros.
Oreon aims to bring long support lifecycles up to ten years. The current version, Oreon Lime R2 brings an eight year lifecycle. The distro is based on AlmaLinux. It ships with Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers out of the box, and also ships with a very user friendly desktop environment.
Now here are some reasons to choose Oreon
- Long term support
- Ease of use
- No need to manually install graphics drivers
- Listens to user feedback
- Helpful customer support
- Strong security
- Respects privacy - telemetry is a big NO
- Great performance
- Easy container setup
- Snapd support
So to summarize, Oreon is a project I have been putting forth a lot of effort, and now that I daily drive it on both my desktop and my laptop, I think using Oreon on Framework devices shall be considered. The average download count for Oreon is 16 per day. I don’t feel like I have much else to do at the moment other than maintaining and advertising the project. I would not be surprised if Framework declines this offer, as I’ve gone through the same thing dozens of times, but I won’t give up as this project is very motivating to me. However, if framework considers my idea, it won’t only help me and the Oreon Linux Project, it will also help the Linux foundation and the environment around us.
Thank you for reading this,
Brandon Lester