Hello,

I am a Chakra Linux user, and I wonder how KaOS compares to it ? It seems to be quite similar : rolling, KDE centric, with a community repository (KCR/CCR)...

So, according to you, what are the differences, advantages and disadvantages of KaOS, compared to Chakra ?

Thanks ;)

Consider you may run 32 bit on Chakra but not on KaOS, number of packages are lower here, as noticed by demm, and there's a lot more downloading when upgrade, due the fully rolling nature.

KaOS usually have the latest version of KDE running smooth sooner than Chakra, and the install media is constantly refreshed, something I find Chakra lacking lately.

If you are a long time user of Chakra, you may have found demm there as Abveritas long ago!

One more note as a big difference with all that ship KDE.

KaOS does not mix the KDE 4 and Plasma 5/Frameworks 5 based desktops.

In early testing of the transition from KDE 4 to 5, it was clear here that the mixing brought way more issues then the benefit of still running non-ported apps could bring. So you don't deal here with needing 2 versions of kdesu for your applications as an example, one shipped in the old kde 4 based kde-runtimes, and one shipped in plasma-workspace.

You will find many more fully ported apps here, even if that meant they needed to be build from git.

24 days later

I just happened to stumble on this discussion and wanted to share some important information that may be relevant. I had Chakra on my PC before I installed Ka's newest release. I have noticed that CPU usage is considerable lower with KaOS. You see I have a computer that is four years old and have had problems with OS's that tend to make my processors scream. I notice it mostly when watching Youtube online or playing certain video games (Supertuxcart example). I have also noticed temperature boosts with my BIOS. Not so with KaOS. I show 1% at 649 MiB usage. That is awesome. No problems so far and Ka runs great (see signature for my PC information). Thank you all for your work.

6 days later

Chakra build different:

KaOS put its full focus on Qt and KDE, when it comes to the PKGBUILD build options, as an example.

Chakra allow other DEs as well, at least in theory. KaOS is fully focused on the KDE Stack. 🙂