GNOME OS Stable

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Hi there,

So since I learned that GNOME OS is becoming a general-purpose distribution, I’ve been very excited about this. I love GNOME and how GNOME OS is heavily integrated with systemd.

Since then I’ve been daily driving GNOME OS Nightly without any major issues. However, the other day I learned about the existence of a GNOME OS Stable ISO (os.gnome.org/download/stable/49/gnome_os_installer_x86_64.iso).

I was surprised not to see any mentions of this stable branch on the official os.gnome.org site. My guess is that the intention is to make it visibly public once GNOME OS is ready to be a general-purpose OS? This makes me wonder if for now, for daily driving, this is the right choice rather than Nightly?

Thank you.

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It’s not. At most, it’s meant to become usable outside of pure QA testing and design, but it’s not meant to be a general purpose Linux distribution.

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You should not use the stable branch as there is no way to upgrade (apart from manually doing it).