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Who was the incredible smart person to name a new distro with a similar name to another, older, Linus distro? ChimeraOS
Honestly when I first read that I just assumed that ChimeraOS decided to go in an new direction. Also it's not like ChimeraOS is some small super niche distro it seems relatively popular.
@GameWarrior maybe they should've checked better before picking an already-used name, because Chimera Linux was using it first: https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq#what-about-chimeraos