Can MainstreamOS finally make Linux a household name? I tried it to find out

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• There's finally a Linux distro that makes Arch and Hyprland easy.
• Mainstream OS is everything you need in a desktop.
• This distro is beautiful, useful, efficient, and free.

Every time I test an Arch-based distribution, I think, "When will Arch be my go-to?" Likewise, when I test the Hyprland tiling window manager/compositor, I think, "When will Hyprland be my go-to?"

And then I run into a Linux distribution that not only combines the two, but does so in a way that leaves me wide-eyed in amazement, thinking, "Why hasn't someone done this before?"

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That was my immediate reaction to MainstreamOS, a Linux distribution that is as polished as any I've ever beheld. The MainstreamOS site says it's "one open system that...

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