The End of Patience
I'm done with T2 Linux.
The appeal of T2 is being a source-based distro, that runs on many, many hardware platforms, even MIPS and PowerPC. As such it's an amazing piece of engineering, running Plasma 6.7 Wayland on that (and of course x86_64, ARM, Risc and now even with a Musl/Clang version).
Liking and using Slackware & Gentoo myself, the compiling challenge didn't look to be that hard. Once you've gone through an all-nighter with Gentoo all is relative, but it wasn't the compiling that turned me away.
I've been following the project for 2 or 3 years now and 6 months ago the first ready-to-roll desktop iso's came out. There were some quirks, but hey, that can be expected with a first try right? This time I tried the 26.6 version and managed to install and get it running.
But the first update and upgrade broke. There were a ton of notifications and error messages, missing dependencies that had to be installed, but could also be left out?, all in all a bad user experience. Three retries from scratch later we are still in that same limbo.
Is that a QA thing? Guess so. No one hands their iso's for testing to end users anymore; the dev echo chamber tells us all is dandy.
The documentation is of no help either, the latest version dates back to 2023. There are tons of coding video streams available, but no simple 15 minute howto.
Projects with less ambition provide way better documentation these days (mango, niri, chimera). In general: give me half the features, but test and document them properly.
Ah, you know what? An amazing project, but obviously not for me. As such it finds itself in the good company of Linux From Scratch, another one of those full-time jobs. No patience for all that.