Western desktops could learn from Linux Deepin 23
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Western desktops could learn from Linux Deepin 23
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/23/deepin_23/
A glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of Chinese open source
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/23/deepin_23/
A glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of Chinese open source
The dual root partitions we described in Deepin 20.5 are gone, but version 23 still sets up a moderately complex partitioning scheme, including an EFI system partition, a 1.5 GB
/bootpartition, a swap partition, and a 15 GB root partition, and the rest of the disk given to a partition labeled_dde_data. All are in plain oldext4format, but there's some magic being done with the data partition that we didn't have time to trace. It appears to be mounted at multiple places, including/home,/var,/opt, and a mount point called/persistentbeneath them all. We're not sure exactly how it's been done, but the distro has some kind of atomic installation facility with rollback.
Lack of proper documentation by Deepins Devs is enough of a red flag for me to never consider trying it.