Project: Puppy Linux
Version: 9.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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It has the newest LibreOffice, Smplayer, and all others that are not very old. The kernel is the same as Easy. I don’t need lock-screen in my logout GUI, so changed it to Suspend, which I do use. Installed a standalone Firefox and have pulseaudio running with it for sound on the internet.
JWM seem to be working a little better, VLC media player no longer walks away from my top right location. I run my own JWM theme which is better than the others, and goes with the fossa-sunset background.
On the boot loader, Easy Linux wins hands down. It took me an hour to get Manjaro’s grub 2 to load Puppy. Easy just sees it and away we go.
Easy has the newer VLC media player, but is a little older on some other things. Easy is for experiments and has a messed up logout, which I replace with Puppy’s logout GUI.
Overall Puppy and Easy are a tie, with the happy end user going to Puppy, just a very small amount. I really like both.
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Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 2020.09.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Solid, fast, versatile, and the forums are awesome.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19.2
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Almost as good as Windows 7. Prepare to have Linux become a part of your life in the form of MXLinux.
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Project: Devuan GNU+Linux
Version: 3.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Been using Devuan since the release of Jessie beta, absolute ease of install. Rated now as one of the TOP 10 best distributions! Great distro for anyone from the noob to the more seasoned Linux user, that is of course you are like a CFI like the post below.
Pros: Systemd free, large team of VUA's behind the creation and maintaining of Devuan. Xfce as their flagship DE.
Cons: Nothing worth noting and a personal observation and nothing to do with servicablity.
If you can't tie your shoe or feed yourself then maybe not right for you!
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Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 2020.09.20
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Only problem I have with it is learning curve for Arch based systems and for some reason my grub does not see it and I have to F9 my computer to get to the Arch grub to load it.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 20
Rating: 2
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 1
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fresh install, new motherboard,cpu,ram.. usual drill :) craps out on driver support for the network adapter.. no way to fix it.. no support for new gen 2.5gb ethernet.. wireless isn't an option. big fail.. EndevourOS to the rescue this time..
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Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Installs printer on net but can't find printer.
I don't have the time or patience to troubleshoot for days
Installed older Sylvia and it worked perfectly.
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Project: Linuxfx
Version: 10.6
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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The installed version takes up much more space than anticipated as I have a memory emmc direct on-board that limits the installer to 16 GB TOTAL. This puts it at about the same as Windows 10 build 2004.
The audio will not play at all gives a long list of same message.
Audio Port: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for Audio Port
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Project: Linuxfx
Version: 10.6
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Overall the Distro is okay, but the packager's move to the Microsoft Office Lookaline package has some problems.
Printing out PDF files (documents and spreadsheets - using the CUPS PDF appliance causes that application to hang. It is also prone to just hang unexpectedly as well, so badly that you'll have to reboot to get control back.
While hung up I can do the same thing with LibreOffice without problem.
Otter2021
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Project: EasyOS
Version: 2.4.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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While not perfect, it is a very useful distro.
One of the advantages of such Linux distributions is portability. It can run from a USB thumb drive. EasyOS is however able to run in RAM, and does not continuously access the USB thumb drive (which causes other distributions to crash from time to time when installed on USB thumb drives, I am talking from experience). It runs very well on 4G of RAM.
For me, it is better than Puppy and other similar distros, because of a few key elements:
- the package manager (PETget) takes packages from Debian, so everything you may need is likely there (ex. nmap, clamav, etc.);
- Libreoffice and a lot of other useful applications are pre-packaged.
JWM is great, very light and has a "kill" function easily accessible with a right click for applications that go berserk.
Also, the "containers" are very useful if you need to open files from unknown origins or surf on websites that may be problematic. You can open a container session and take the risks there, or alternatively boot under a lockdown session which is fully in RAM. In general, although it runs in root, it looks very secure.
My suggestions for future development : work a bit on the look-and-feel. I personally edited the "/root/.jwmrc" file to reorganize a few things in the menu, make the icons smaller etc.
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Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Just perfect, everything works out of the box.
I have installed it on multiple machines during the past two months and it just works. There are some minor printing issues with HP printers but removing ippusbxd solved those issues, so not such a big deal.
Gnome 3.36 enhanced with a handful of useful extensions is very productive and gets me done things considerably faster compared to KDE, Mate or cinnamon. It runs very fast, stable, and responsive.
What I did, though, was completely removing snap after installation, including Ubuntu software, and replacing it with the snap free gnome software equivalent. Now I do enjoy a snappy (lol) snap-free OS, that is a pleasure to use.
Network just works fine, and no crashes at all on any of the machines I have installed it. It just works.
Games run perfectly as well. Steam, Lutris, whatever. No issues at all.
The theme design is wonderful, consistent and easy on the eyes, nice colors too, and those who don't like them could easily change that.
There are some minor inconveniences of course, as all of the desktop environment have. But either those can be overcome with an extension or I just got used to doing things that way then.
After I had been using KDE for the past 3 years (until April 2020), I thought of giving Gnome another try, and I don't regret it. I had been so excited about the numerous tweak options of KDE, but to be honest, almost all of my preferences could be projected into the Gnome environment, and some things are even a lot better and more productive in Gnome.
Once I got used to some Gnome-specific things, which took me a day or two, I meanwhile don't miss anything, and I am rather pleased of the lean and clean design of my desktop.
Thumbs up, and thanks to the Ubuntu team and Canonical for gifting us with such a great system, that also has a long lifetime. I love it.
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Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 2020.09.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Great installer, lots of DE choices and a great community!
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Project: CentOS
Version: 8.2.2004
Rating: 5
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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The random freeze is probably caused by
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
ELrepo still working hard to solve the nvidia driver bug according to CentOS forum. kmod-nvidia stuff.
Stay away until they fix this fundamental problem!
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 20
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 0
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Good distro all up - two pitfalls : no "gnome-commander" available and no USB writer and / or formatter ?
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Project: Linuxfx
Version: 10.6
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 1
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I don't understand the hype about this Distribution because it seems to have a lot of bugs.
The installer is asking for keyboard layout, but the choice is getting discarded immediately (already during installation).
So after installation it's very tricky to login and something like Cortana wants to get immediately configured.
I don't have an account from a vendor existing on the list and so there is no easy way to configure or cancel this.
The GUI looks nice, but the two points let me doubt this distribution is getting well-tended.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-24
Votes: 4
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2/2
Mit dem MX Paket-Installer lassen sich sehr viele Programme auf Knopfdruck installieren.(z.B.: anydesk, Skype, redshift, Kodi, alternative Browser, Wine, Steam, uvm.)
Für den alten Scanner und Drucker habe ein virtuelles XP von früher mit Virtualbox in Verwendung, was bei einer Neuinstallation schnell draufkopiert und eingerichtet ist.
Was mir sehr gut gefällt, ist, dass man das Betriebssystem schnell installieren und einrichten kann, ohne dass man auf irgendwelche Lizenzbeschränkungen achten muss. Das Startmenü ist auch nicht mit Verlinkungen gespickt für kostenpflichtige Programme/Apps, die noch gar nicht installiert sind. Man ist auch nicht regelmäßig durch Zwangsupdates gezwungen, den Computer nachts oder auch tags durchrodeln zu lassen. Wenn ich auf herunterfahren drücke, ist nach wenigen Sekunden der Computer aus, da wird nicht noch minutenlang ein Update konfiguriert. So macht es sogar Spaß alle 5 Jahre mal das System frisch aufzusetzen, an die neuen Bedürfnisse anzupassen und gleichzeitig den alten Müll, den man nicht mehr verwendet, von der Festplatte zu fegen.
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Project: Linuxfx
Version: 10.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 0
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I love this Distro, What more can I say, The support is good and fast, I would love to see a windows hello replacement as I love loging on with my Face.
I have been using it as my main OS now for a week and I am thinking of moving from Windows 10 to this distro as my Main OS for home just a big shame MS AD Admin tools dont work, as I would look at swapping to this on my works laptop.
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Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 2020.09.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 3
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The install was smooth and no problem. I prefer a KDE desktop. No problems and it is fast. EOS also has a great user forum.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 0
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The update indicator icon does not seem to be working. I had to do zypper up to get the system up to date.
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Project: Pop!_OS
Version: 20.04
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 0
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Looks great, love the desktop,....But unstable many bugs and errors.
Installed to play games but 2 weeks is enough time spent trying to get games even from repositories to stop crashing.
No its Not my hardware all tested
Ryzen 32GB Ram GTX1060 etc
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 6
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Great Distro. Hassle free Installation. Budgie is a real joy, no frills, fast, no bloat.
Very polished distribution with emphasis on modern desktop/laptop systems with a good selection of pre-build packages (for that purpose). Frequent updates combined with impressive stability .
Solus is clean and quick, with a consistent UI. Solus is almost intuitive, giving just enough control over the UI to be useful without bogging users down in the minutia. The Solus developers have done a superb job of building ground-up.
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Project: CentOS
Version: 8.2.2004
Rating: 6
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 0
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Today Sep 24, 2020. On the latest packages after yum update.
But when I was watching Youtube, the screen suddenly froze,
unresponsive to keyboard and mouse, cannot do Alt-F5, etc.
No choice but to press the power button to shutdown the OS.
Reboot to other OS on other partition to continue.
A few days the same thing happened.
Definitely OS problem since i have zero freeze problem on CentOS 6.,
CentOS 7 and Debian 9.
Hope CentOS 8 is fix the bug in the future.
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Project: deepin
Version: 20
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 9
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Deepin is a powerful distro, nobody can say the opposite. I just tested deepin 20, but I got a little bit disappointed about some things. I honestly like the new launcher and configuration tool, there’s something that kinda reminds me MIUI, since I’m used to that style, it’s a positive point. Also there’s a bunch of unique software available at deepin store, it’s a positive point, since there’s no need of ppa or even handle with packages manually. But I really don’t like the new dock, the old one (version 15.3) was the best one, it used to be beautiful and functional, but now there’s a Windows style there that really push me away. Beside of that aesthetic issue, note that I tested the beta version of deepin 20, but in that version there was something leaking memory usage way beyond the reasonable, 1.8 GB just for keep the system up after boot, it’s impossible to use a system that may eat way more memory than any other Linux distro. Linux allows a powerful combination of aesthetics, ton of resources, easily usage and hardware preservation by not forcing it to the top without a good reason (like rendering or using some really hard resource). Deepin is a wonderful distro and I love it since 2015, but not this deepin 20, lots of the unique characteristics were lost in aesthetic and hardware resources usage. I’ll keep using Linux Mint until the next deepin version fix these issues and get back to it’s original track.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1.5
Rating: 4
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 0
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elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera
I liked working with it in the beginning and wanted this as a replacement for windows but that was a dream, many applications do not get installed and installed applications do not work after a while, e.g. connection to the printer, the bad thing is that I just don't get it right.
The only point of contact is the forum :-( where tickets are posted but never answered, so printer does not work anymore !!!, shut down, start windows and PRINT :-(
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Project: Pop!_OS
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 2
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I've used distrowatch top 10 OSes but that Pop!_OS's the best OS and most stable OS I've ever seen.
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Project: NixOS
Version: 20.03
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 1
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Some of my Linux fanboy buddies use NixOS and have been advocating it, often heard it from those Linux Podcasts (Linux Action News, Linux Unplugged, Late Night Linux, DLN, etc.) Decided to give it a go.
Attracted by the nix package manager really, amazingly impressive! After trying it out I understand the design goals / considerations and interesting implementation details behind it. Really worth the time invested playing with it. (yet to try NixOS itself to see its declarative configuration - in comparison with k8s).
nix can be considered "homebrew" for LTS Linux distributions (doesn't make sense to rolling, or controlled rolling / semi rolling), however, it is more advanced if used as a platform as package install/upgrade transactions are atomic. It is a perfect complement to LTS like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, and sometimes even proved to be valuable to short cycle release like Fedora 32 (missing some packages e.g. duc, or some falls behind on versions - e.g. goaccess).
Will definitely roll out nix on all non rolling releases I manage (not production system though - political / security concerns....) to get the tools needed to get the work done. However, I wouldn't consider hopping to NixOS from my current workstation setup (Manjaro + KDE Plasma on x86 and ARM), plus Arch Linux + Lxqt and a Fedora 32 on MicroServer N54L Gen7.
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: stable
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 2
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I installed Manjaro on my 7-year-old laptop. It didn't recognize the wifi. After a couple of days tweaking the wifi drivers from the command line I was able to catch a wifi connection but it was unstable and disconnected frequently. After that I switched to Pop OS and everything works fantastically out of the box.
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Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 4
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I use it at work on a large scale and at home on my own hardware, it works perfect. Every problem i've ever had I would also have on another distro.
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Project: Linux Lite
Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 1
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Bom, o sistema ressuscitou um netbook HP que eu tenho com 2GB de memória e um processador Atom 1.6, antes estava instalado o lubuntu que por algum motivo já não funcionava tão bem, além o mais o sistema é bonito e bem simples de usar. Aconselho o uso para computadores com baixa capacidade de processamento.
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Project: Q4OS
Version: 3.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 0
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I have never posted a review for any Distro before, but I can't help but do so now. Q4OS is one of the best and most stable Linux Distros that I have ever used.
I installed Q4OS Vers. 3.12 64bit with KDE Plasma on an older test Desk PC and then I installed a copy of Q4OS Vers. 3.12 64bit with Trinity on my everyday work laptop. I thought that they both were fast, stable and completely bug free.
I have tried a LOT of Distros over the years. My main everyday PC runs Linux Mint LMDE 4, which I simply love! But for an older box with limited resources, my choice, hands down, is Q4OS running Trinity.
You can tell that their Q4OS QC team worked hard getting this right.
Linux Mint LMDE 4 for my big desk PC and Q4OS or my laptop. The perfect combination!
To the Q4OS Team, you have done a GREAT job!
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Project: Puppy Linux
Version: 9.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 1
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I installed Fossapup64 9.5, on a USB flash drive (live install), and am booting it on a very new, home built computer, with Intel i9 processor and GeForce RTX 2060 graphics and generally very new other components.
Only version of Puppy that could run everything from the start.
Fossapup64 9.5 is more for newer computers and their newer hardware.
It is a 64bit OS and requires a 64bit capable computer.
It does work well on some of my older computers, as long as they are 64bit capable.
Memory usage may seem high to some people, but it is using some of the newest methods, the Linux kernel has, for memory control.
What may be shown as memory in use is a lot of buffers and cached memory.
So, actual used memory is really Used - (buffers + cached) and free ram is Free + (buffers + cached).
anyway, at initial boot up to desktop and no programs running. Ram usage is around 300MB.
It has a lot of Puppy specific updated programs and also some new ones to Puppy.
The Frugalpup Installer, is the first installer program Puppy has had, to do installs that can boot on UEFI computers in normal setup. It can provide the needed security key for UEFI secure boot enabled booting.
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Project: Zorin OS
Version: 15.3
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 2
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Pretty good distro overall, it's zippy despite being a rather customized, it also allows you to further customize it without installing GNOME Tweaks. It has its own app to connect your phone to have macOS-iOS-style integrations like FrontRow, remote for iWork and those that aren't present in the Apple platforms anymore and your can find them on F-Droid which makes you feel a little extra good about the whole thing. Speaking of Apple, this is among the very few distros that will have driver support for Macs' wireless cards, in other distros you can download them but its 80/20 it'll work. These perks are undervalued in a sea of Linux distros and have had me debating if I should upgrade to the Ultimate version. The downsides are: Active Directory support is hit and miss, but more miss. This has been an issue on most GNOME3-based ditros though, on the command line you can log in to your directory account just fine meaning you can use Kerberos functionality but you will have a different password for your account than that of your domain's since GNOME fails to login. This is a huge issue in my case, the next is that it uses Aptitude as the package manager, it may be my lacks of skills finding metapackages which is easily accomplished with Dandified YUM's groups. Third is the customization you're getting with Zorin is really only GNOME, installing other desktop environments requires knowing their metapackages and them having support for Ubuntu 18.04, the closest thing to Zorin. The overall feeling is airy and light like Fedora but much older, you can't help but feel there's something missing. If you don't need to join a domain this is an amazing distro and I think it's totally worth the price because you'll get support for it as well. I think it's something like USD40. RHEL is much higher and AFAIK the only other supported distro--and also pretty good.
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Project: PCLinuxOS
Version: 2020.09
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-23
Votes: 1
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This is a distribution that just plain works. When I bought a new laptop about two years ago, I wiped Win10 off of it, and installed this. When I was sick of the short lifespans of another distro, I put it on my server.
However, it's not the end-all, be-all of Linux. It's missing several important packages that, for me, would make it pretty much complete. For my workstation/multipurpose computer I want qemu and mythtv, which are not available here, so I have to look elsewhere. Choices make the world go around.
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Project: APODIO
Version: 12-beta0.4.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 0
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french localization during install isn't nice but beyond that best distro for artists ever.
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Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 7
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ArchLinux is the most impressive distribution I've ever used!
I have been a Linux user since 2000 and a Slackware user for 17 years.
Looking for an alternative to replace Slackware, I also went through BSD, variants of Debian * too (which means Funtoo, Gentoo), but the only one I chose that corresponds to everything I need is: ArchLinux!
Simply PERFECT!
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Project: Puppy Linux
Version: 9.5
Rating: 5
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 0
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Puppy isn't anymore light distro.Consume 1,6 mem with one tab open,as at LXLE with three tabs 655.I use Dell Inspiron Celeron N2840 and 4 GB Ram.
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 0
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Solus KDE 4.1 - Solus blog constantly hijacking Firefox homepage. There's no fix other than downloading from snap/flat. I tried to like it. It's possibly the most stable KDE out there. Having a browser that's been completely purged, profile removed, and wiped from the OS only to have it hijacked again on a fresh install seems pretty shady.
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Project: Puppy Linux
Version: 9.5
Rating: 5
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 0
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fails to boot says I686 cpu detected use proper kernel MX 32bit is running on it now ,
CPU intel single core Centrino T1350 running @ 1.8 GHZ
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Project: Puppy Linux
Version: 9.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 2
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i cannot booting with ios booting usb .it just showing prompt command window
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Project: Debian
Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 6
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Its an absolutely awesome distro. Problems are none and stability is top. Best distro
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Project: Ubuntu Studio
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 0
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This is fantastic, forget studio, even for every day use its perfect, All codecs available preconfigured, Play any media, photo song or create graphics...
All the goodness with best configured and ubuntu assured, so many third party available easily comparing to others.
So wheather you are into media creation or standard user, Ubuntu studio is perfect And they are shifting to KDE, which is good for me too
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Project: UBports
Version: 16.04
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-22
Votes: 5
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Great project, a gesture based interface that, after a short learning period, is super fast and well designed. I can't wait to see Lomiri on other projects (Like Manjaro ARM) on my Pinephone in an usable state, for finally have a (mostly) full open source phone.
Unfortunately at the moment it's still not ready, but I have it on my Oneplus One as well, and with some compromises it can be considered ready
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Project: Fedora
Version: 32
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 17
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Thank you for existing and stopping my distro hopping illness.
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Project: Pop!_OS
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 2
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Finally I found a stable OS for daily use. I hate formatting and I hate trying new distros. Unfortunately I had to try many distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, Linux Mint... They weren't for daily use. I got problems about Nvidia drivers, too much fan noise or system problems with the distros. Then I give Pop_OS a try. I use it for 1.5 years! Pop_OS is very suitable for my Asus laptop. I like its power management. I used to hear too much fan noise for many distros and Windows 10. I hear less fan noise with Pop_OS.
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: 20.1
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 0
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tried various attempts in preTest via VirtualBox guest install. my norm to checking other features and distros out - this 20.0+ per previous 19.0 version did not wish to load. "Failed to start Virtual-Box Guest VMSVGA resize client - then after other change attempts to VB settings - using arch base fails again after about 100 or so seconds where boot screen comes up - with poss 1/6th of progress load line I'd assume!??? - then pop's another error " Could not Sync Environment to dbus " - 16g mem on fair Q3610 cpu laptop - normally all everything works not seen this type of - Live start to failing in VB.. Odd I like this distro - testing was the KDE .iso - possibly will try download the flagship - xfce DT and try that per a VB/guest check on function.
This is a decent distro always has been with oddly possible tweaks and or maybe a miss on a script syntax for loading via various methods - which I'm sure is a daunting mind sweep of things to catch and place for builders. I like this bc its all an everything kept with latest of latest all per maybe 1 or 3 level below latest kernel .. So dbl thumbs up on this one. Maybe just the odd feature I'm guesting is not quite in the compass swing.. Trying other .iso xfce .. easy enough to tweak'n'tune for services etc.
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Project: OpenMediaVault
Version: 5.5.11
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 0
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Based on rock-solid Debian Linux, Open Media Vault (aka OMV) is very stabil and intuitive in design. Yet, its interface is detailed enough to rival similar BSD-based NAS products. Suffice to say, OMV is very well thought out and implemented, and MY first choice in NAS Servers!
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Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 2020.07.15
Rating: 5
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 0
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Install test 2020.09
Good: boots on nvidia already into live session. Nice UI, already sets monitor frequency to max. Keyboard control is pretty good as everything is clearly highlighted, but wait, we're in Xfce. That's why. No mouse as there's no Bluetooth! So I made exception and continued installation which gives you selection of DEs. Impressive but thanks to that the online installation was super slow. Looks like all their mirrors are very slow, noticed it during iso grab already.
After ugly looking boot (with irq errors and huge LUKS delay) plasma loads and again, no Bluetooth. On their website I read they think Bluetooth is unsafe. Ok lol. Keyboard time! on KDE - you know that's a bad idea.
Next there's no software manager. What! Another test of NIC and USB was pretty successful in live, but in first session some USB3 ports were downgraded. Can this be a competition to Arcolinux/Manjaro? Let's do the resume test. It sucks. Firefox window emptied and cannot even refresh. Settings app empty. But don't worry, this applies to almost all distros. But also: all networks (also wifi) gone. Never could recover them. The system froze when modprobing and had to press reset button. Next...
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.1
Rating: 2
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 0
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Having checked a dozen of distros in a short time, and did the same test in each one. Well, not in this one. This distro is the only one which cannot boot at all on a modern machine (freshest chipset, strictly nvidia). No safe mode offered.
There are for sure some distros, and not a small minority, which don't boot first. But at least you can get to installation via safe mode.
Hmm, no Solus test possible.
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Project: Xubuntu
Version: 14.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 0
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Worked fine. Used it a few years ago. Had problems installing some apps from software center and there was a few terminal commands that didnt work. Cant remember which ones. Everything else, web browsing, music, videos, downloading etc worked just fine. I mainly used it for web browsing on an old secondary PC. A bit faster at booting than the windows xp it replaced but it tended to lag/slow down sometimes when opening some apps
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 20.9.2
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-09-21
Votes: 0
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Interesting alternative to Manjaro. With surprising result.
I hopped a dozen of distros this weekend, on a modern machines (all recent components and nvidia).
I posted all notes, and the experience with distros was as usual: hard to boot on nvidia, missing NICs, missing bluetooth mouse.
But overall the ArcoLinux and Manjaro topped the charts.
The ArcoLinux doesn't offer tools after installation, at least I don't see anything, but the installer is cool to let you select DE and tons of major apps (incl. a firefox localization - nice detail).
It behaves well. Strong on my radar.
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