Based on our record, Siduction should be more popular than Salient OS. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I would also like to mention the community forum (https://forum.siduction.org/) which is of great help to SID users, especially the upgrade warnings. Source: over 1 year ago
When you say "Emacs on Linux?" and blames the GNU/Linux env for having not Emacs newest version it is not really the case. The issue is not in Linux env itself, but in Pop OS. I always easily get the latest stable version for Emacs with just Apt get install emacs But, my distro is based on Debian unstable for many years now and I never had a difficult issue that could not be fixed. In fact, in Siduction, unstable... Source: almost 3 years ago
If you're looking into gaming specifically, I can heartily recommend SalientOS - I've been using it near exclusively for over a year and loving every moment. Unfortunately there's damned near no community around it other than the vaguely active Discord. The maintainer, Silent Robot, is super-helpful and usually responds to questions quite rapidly. Source: over 2 years ago
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