Nitrux - Where's vmx and VMetal?
Added 2020-07-02 20:08:24 +0000 UTCI'm a tiny bit worried that I somehow missed details about Nitrux with this episode. Where the heck did VMetal go? What happened to the whole AppImage thing?
The founder of Nitrux announced VMetal and a tool called vmx last year in this blog post. Yet, it was nowhere to be seen in the latest iso - not even mentioned.
I've made accidental omissions in previous episodes but I looked around for quite a while searching for traces of VMetal and came up with nothing. It's very strange.
I guess the developer decided to rebrand Nitrux as a UX-first distro. And of course, he released a new version of the iso a couple of days after I recorded the footage for this video.
NX is possibly the buggiest and worst feeling Linux desktop I've ever used. Despite running on real hardware (an SSD no less) it felt worse than Ubuntu running in a VM. And the bugs littered across the applications were unacceptable.
I had difficulties writing a good ending to the episode. It sort of abruptly ends but I didn't know what else to say without sounding like I was just complaining about it. 😂
