Deepin OS vs OpenRC

The desktop interface and apps feature an intuitive and elegant design. Moving around, sharing and searching, etc. has become simply a joyful experience.

Having Deepin installed also means you have thousands of quality apps to choose from. The apps which come with installation will suit your needs to browse the Internet, listen to music, watch videos, talk with friends, editing documents or simply any task you want to do at home or in your office.

It's very easy to use. You can easily uninstall a program by going to the menu then right-clicking on the preferred app and selecting "Uninstall" option.

Deepin has a blur and transparent design throughout the OS, which makes it one of the most beautiful Linux distros.

Installing Deepin OS is very easy. Even easier than installing Ubuntu!

Deepin OS supports Flatpak. It also has some Flatpak programs installed by default.

Deepin OS includes a program called "Deepin Graphics Driver Manager" which can easily install a good driver for the graphics card.

Since it is based on Debian stable, you will hardly ever get a dependency issue.

It is based on Debian which is the best Linux distribution for desktops.

By default, Deepin looks kinda like macOS but it can be made to look like Windows by right-clicking on the dock and changing the mode from "Fashion Mode" to "Efficient Mode".

It is a rolling release Linux distribution which is quite popular these days.

The app store is gorgeous.

It has its own toolkit called "Deepin Tool Kit". And the maintainers themselves use it.

In some cases, VLC media player has some problems with Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based Linux distros. That isn't the case with Deepin.

Deepin has a sane default set of apps including custom apps of their own design that gives the distro a very consistent look and feel. By working with the community on these tools as well as custom translations there is a great sense of polish when using it that is not often seen when using such a new desktop environment.

Programs load and launch faster in Deepin than other Linux distributions. It takes only about 3 seconds to launch Chrome.

The Wuhan Deepin Technology is behind this Linux distribution.

Deepin has the facilities to create VLAN and other configuration like Wifi Hostpot on their GUI.

Deepin 15.7 is lighter than Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

The official repository of deepin OS includes over 73,000 packages.

It has some exciting applications, such as Deepin Graphics Driver Manager which can easily change between free and proprietary drivers without any issue.

Deepin automatically cleans package cache. Cleaning package cache is a good thing as it will make the OS much faster and lighter.

Deepin uses their own modified version of apt. When there is a distribution upgrade available and if we try to upgrade by running "sudo apt upgrade", then this modified version of apt gives this warning message, "DDE programs will work abnormally if run this command. Run sudo apt dist-upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade instead."

Some people don't like Ubuntu nor its derivatives.

Easy to install, comes with default packages to typical needs e.g. Chrome, WPS office, System Monitor and a bunch of multimedia utilities. Its easy to install and uninstall applications, it has a great app store and is fast. On same laptop run much faster than Windows 10 did.

OpenRC follows the UNIX philosophy of 'do one thing and do it well', while it's true that it has more features than sysvinit, it does not stay away from its primary function with unnecessary added features.

All configuration is done via shell scripts and symlinks. Shell scripts can then use various specialized utilities to ease the development of init scripts.

OpenRC builds on top of sysvinit and adds some more useful features (like parallel booting) while still the simplicity that sysvinit is know for. Because of this it generally boots faster than other init systems, especially when parallel booting is enabled.

Does one thing and does it well.

Using OpenRC does not lock in a distribution by providing specific NON-POSIX extra services which programs then would rely on.

Basically OpenRC doesn't replace SysV init, but rather works with it, providing features that SysV is lacking while taking advantage of its benefits. It's also used by a fair amount of reasonably popular distros and is well supported and developed.

Uses multi-core and ram very efficiently.

It can be ported to other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.

I can add a new startup script for most cases in under five minutes. The ability to quickly insert new applications into the system is a big help.

It always initializes a system the same way; if OpenRC booted and ran a system properly today, it will boot and run properly tomorrow, and the next day.