A sucker for home-brewed apps, Mayank Sharma gets lured into a new distro that’s headed in the right direction, but still has a long way to go.
Generally we steer clear of new Ubuntu-based distros, but HexagonOS appealed to us with its home-brewed apps. After all, it’s logical to assume that anyone who has put in the time to write custom apps must have put in the effort required not to ship just another Ubuntu clone. HexagonOS doesn’t disappoint us for being an Ubuntu clone. We are instead let down by the distro’s liberal use of the 1.0 versioning. Why would anyone want to subject their project to a reviewer’s wrath, knowing very well that their distro is so full of rough edges that it might cut someone?
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