This is my first post on this forum so I thought I'd better say hello :)

I installed KaOS a couple of weeks ago and I've been so blown off my feet. What an amazing distro!! It runs my favourite kde desktop and is blisteringly fast. Everything seems really stable and I'm beginning to learn pacman; I've never previously used this packager before and what a breath of fresh air.

What I can't understand is why this lovely distro isn't more popular. I came across you from a Distrowatch update notification on twitter (my wife encouraged be after years of nagging that I would love twitter... but that's anoter story). Since then I've moved away from Kubuntu and openSUSE and now have you as my working OS. I do still have Windows 8.1 as I have unfortunately proprietary software that doesn't yet run on Linux (actually win8 is my favourite Microsaft product....)

Anyway before I waffle on too much.... Just wanted to say what is now obvious now; this is a great distro! :)

Hi penguinclaw

A few reasons why this is not a popular distro, and probably never will be.

First of, it is rather new, just 2-3 months ago accepted in DistroWatch.

But more importantly, it is from the ground up designed for a limited audience. No lib32, that means those who want steam, skype, wine will not use it. Only 64 bit ISO, old hardware that has 32 bit only CPU, can't use it.

Offering only KDE as desktop, many users want a choice between any and all possible DE or non DE setup from their distro.

Limited size of the repos, 2000-2100 will be the max that is offered, anything missing beyond that users need to get from KCP or fully compile and maintain themselves, most users want the choice of 35.000 + packages from their distro.

But this pure focus does give it the advantages you have noticed, that is why the choices that KaOS has made.

Thanks for that insight Demm. Well KaOS has certainly made a big impression on me so I will be sticking around. I do also have a bells and whistles distro that I'm experimenting with to see how I get along with it but for my main OS this is the one I've been looking for.

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