Vanilla OS, per the description on the official website, is “an Ubuntu Linux-based Point Release distribution that receives updates at the right time, neither before nor after, without sacrificing security and functionality.” It’s “your faithful colleague by day” and “your teammate by night.” The developer, Mirko Brombin, is also the developer of the Bottles application. It uses GNOME as the desktop environment – “a stock, clean version with as few changes as possible” – and as far as the gaming aspect is concerned, you don’t need to worry “about setting up your devices.

About a month ago I had talked about a portable Linux distro that gives a SteamOS 3-like experience: winesapOS. Well, as is the traditional case with open-source forks in the Linux landscape of things, we’ve got another one: HoloISO. I’d still recommend the former over the latter, as winesapOS can be used on any device without installing, and comes with a bunch of extra gaming-related packages, but if you’re looking for something a little more minimal, you might want to give HoloISO a try.