Gnome OS Preview

ChrisArchitect

Source: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/10/16/gnome-os-previ... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50123056 )

ainar-g

Interesting! The OS doesn't seem to be based on Debian, Arch, or RHEL, but instead seems to be its own new thing, with Flatpak as its dependency manager. Seriously considering playing with it in a VM.

RetroTechie

Article could do with a short paragraph explaining what Gnome OS is.

SilentM68

Hmm, tried to install via QEMU/KVM and Oracle VM in an Ubuntu host and can't get the ISO come up. I chose BIOS/UEFI (all available options) without success? Got the following message on KVM: GNOME 3.14 on QEMU/KVM 2 File Virtual Machine View Send Key 50 »mo . E SeaBIOS (version 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2) Machine UUID 616b29f9-c84f-4e48-97224-9f df 00225378 iPXE ( https://ipxe.org ) 01:00.0 CAGE PCIZ.10 PnP PMM+7EFCASEO+7EFOASEO CAOO Booting from DUD/CD... Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0009) Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: not a bootable disk No bootable device. -------------------------------------- Is the ISO bootable via a VM? Home page should probably add VM install instructions :)

russellbeattie

In a year or so when today's top frontier AI models are free with your breakfast cereal, Gnome OS might actually be something to take seriously. Here's my thinking: Gnome is notoriously 80% everything you ever wanted in a desktop environment and 20% "screw you, implement it yourself if you don't like it." It's been that way for decades and we all love them for it. But obviously that level of support is not ideal in an underlying OS. However, the OS could have an automated trigger that fired any time a Gnome developer told you to go pound sand (a common enough occurrence). It would automatically ask your computer's integrated Codex or Claude equivalent coding agent to fix whatever issue you're having and to close the bug report after. Think about it! That might be an actual viable new way of running an OS distribution! Bug fixes will just be prompts you can copy/paste! "Make this idiot's printer work. Decompile the driver and reflash the firmware if needed. Then mark the issue as resolved." "Works on my machine" becomes a whole new thing as everyone ends up running their own bespoke AI augmented version of the base OS. The future is now.