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Absolute Linux
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Reader supplied reviews for Absolute Linux
Average rating
4.9 from 7 review(s)
Version: 20240602
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-06-29
Votes: 2
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Copying the iso to a USB via dd does not work. I was able to get it to boot and run the installer by creating a ventoy USB and copying the iso to it.
You need to be very careful installing it because the ONLY way it installs is to ERASE all data and REPARTITION your disk drive.
Because of that, I didn't go any farther with the install. I was just lucky that I read it carefully.
I would say this distro might be good for an expert or perhaps it would work to install it to a virtual drive, but I see that as a limitation that pretty much is going to exclude or cause potential trouble for novice users.
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Version: 20220405
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-04-12
Votes: 15
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only got it burnt to an USB drive with " Unetbootin with p7z" or With ventoy, then the iso would boot up for installation.
Pros : a) Firstly, I appreciated the Dev,for the nice cool startup wallpaper .
b) Nice Generic win95 look.
c) cool yellow/brown matching colors theme.
d) a workable desktop.
e) wifi auto detect working well.
Cons :a) icewm did not registering new apps installed and not showing menus icons for new apps. ( rebooted tried still missing.)
Tried edited /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER " [User] Xsession=icewm-session SystemAccount=false" --not working.
b) fcitx is installed so no menu only could be run in terminal,but errors shown "keyboard existed" even it was started first time.
c) thunar-vol file manager installed , no menu , command line could not start the program. (prefer this file manager for root power)
d) when click firefox icon on panel tab, most of the time lags 3 ~6 seconds to start, sometimes, it does not even start.
e) mission guides to add packages from slackware "stable" repository to smoothly.
Wishes : Cons be resolve soon.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-02-08
Votes: 5
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Installed Absolute 15.0 this morning. Crashed after first non-root login, and other assorted weird behavior under both root and individual accounts. So downloaded another ISO image and re-installed. Seems to be stable, but all applications are glacially slow. The QT development tools all had 1 to 6 sec delays (where nothing happens) before a project could be loaded and edited and other such nonsense. My SCons build system is no longer usable because I designed it with dead-man switches where a time-out at strategic places stops the build for failed code. As I type this review, I am one or two key-strokes ahead before anything shows in the text box.
I have always liked previous versions of the Absolute distro for its cleanness and responsiveness on both old and new machines, and for the selection of included applications, and for the well-designed add-on utilities written by Mr. Sherman. But much of that is broken or untenable with version 15; which is almost unusable. Not that it matters to me, but my niece noticed that some of the applications on the main menu have no corresponding program installed. Her desktop is an old dual-core i5, 8G, 500G HDD; and it is even slower than my machine (a three-year old i5, 16G, 1T HDD). She is not able to use any of the standard graphics programs (I had to manually install most of the previously 'standard programs on her machine, as they are no longer included.
Perhaps I need to install Slackware 15 and see if the 'base' distro is the source of problems. We are having a family conference this evening on whether to say goodbye to Absolute after many happy years. If I have to say goodbye to Slackware itself, I will be heart-broken.
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Version: 20211024
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-11-12
Votes: 1
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Nowadays absolute is the best example of bloat that is hard to get rid of, because slackware isn't your average ubuntu or debian where you can simply apt-get purge a package with all "orphans" or leftovers. Here you need to know or google all the dependencies and then manually remove it. Was it so hard to generate a bare-bones ISO with x and icewm - only? Without all those browsers, audio and video players.
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Version: 20211024
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-10-30
Votes: 1
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Absolute has a great name, it’s absolutely boring! I had to hunt for so many packages to find anything I wanted to use, and it didn’t even have most of the basics a lot of other lightweight distros have. For being lightweight, this distro is slow as molasses. In general, I’ve gotten problems so much by just trying to use this as a daily driver on my computer.
I’d rather just use Slax, it looks better and from the packages, has a lot more to offer.
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Version: 20210730
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-09-24
Votes: 1
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Easy to install, and has quite a bit of software installed, but this is one of the slowest Distros I ever had, but overall I've had much worse.
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Version: 20201107
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-02-01
Votes: 3
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Great Work! I've always wanted a 1-app-per-task slackware distro that actually works and stays true to the original (you'll know what I mean, fellow slackers), and I've found that here. the IceWM desktop is ridiculously fast, and the software set is just right. The only problem is that, if you select the fast install option (or something like that, last time I installed it was pretty long ago), the password is NOT obvious, and is not on their website either.
9/10
Amazing desktop distribution, but fast install is useless.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 20240602
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-06-29
Votes: 2
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Copying the iso to a USB via dd does not work. I was able to get it to boot and run the installer by creating a ventoy USB and copying the iso to it.
You need to be very careful installing it because the ONLY way it installs is to ERASE all data and REPARTITION your disk drive.
Because of that, I didn't go any farther with the install. I was just lucky that I read it carefully.
I would say this distro might be good for an expert or perhaps it would work to install it to a virtual drive, but I see that as a limitation that pretty much is going to exclude or cause potential trouble for novice users.
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Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 20220405
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-04-12
Votes: 15
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only got it burnt to an USB drive with " Unetbootin with p7z" or With ventoy, then the iso would boot up for installation.
Pros : a) Firstly, I appreciated the Dev,for the nice cool startup wallpaper .
b) Nice Generic win95 look.
c) cool yellow/brown matching colors theme.
d) a workable desktop.
e) wifi auto detect working well.
Cons :a) icewm did not registering new apps installed and not showing menus icons for new apps. ( rebooted tried still missing.)
Tried edited /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER " [User] Xsession=icewm-session SystemAccount=false" --not working.
b) fcitx is installed so no menu only could be run in terminal,but errors shown "keyboard existed" even it was started first time.
c) thunar-vol file manager installed , no menu , command line could not start the program. (prefer this file manager for root power)
d) when click firefox icon on panel tab, most of the time lags 3 ~6 seconds to start, sometimes, it does not even start.
e) mission guides to add packages from slackware "stable" repository to smoothly.
Wishes : Cons be resolve soon.
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Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 15.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-02-08
Votes: 5
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Installed Absolute 15.0 this morning. Crashed after first non-root login, and other assorted weird behavior under both root and individual accounts. So downloaded another ISO image and re-installed. Seems to be stable, but all applications are glacially slow. The QT development tools all had 1 to 6 sec delays (where nothing happens) before a project could be loaded and edited and other such nonsense. My SCons build system is no longer usable because I designed it with dead-man switches where a time-out at strategic places stops the build for failed code. As I type this review, I am one or two key-strokes ahead before anything shows in the text box.
I have always liked previous versions of the Absolute distro for its cleanness and responsiveness on both old and new machines, and for the selection of included applications, and for the well-designed add-on utilities written by Mr. Sherman. But much of that is broken or untenable with version 15; which is almost unusable. Not that it matters to me, but my niece noticed that some of the applications on the main menu have no corresponding program installed. Her desktop is an old dual-core i5, 8G, 500G HDD; and it is even slower than my machine (a three-year old i5, 16G, 1T HDD). She is not able to use any of the standard graphics programs (I had to manually install most of the previously 'standard programs on her machine, as they are no longer included.
Perhaps I need to install Slackware 15 and see if the 'base' distro is the source of problems. We are having a family conference this evening on whether to say goodbye to Absolute after many happy years. If I have to say goodbye to Slackware itself, I will be heart-broken.
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Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 20211024
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-11-12
Votes: 1
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Nowadays absolute is the best example of bloat that is hard to get rid of, because slackware isn't your average ubuntu or debian where you can simply apt-get purge a package with all "orphans" or leftovers. Here you need to know or google all the dependencies and then manually remove it. Was it so hard to generate a bare-bones ISO with x and icewm - only? Without all those browsers, audio and video players.
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Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 20211024
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-10-30
Votes: 1
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Absolute has a great name, it’s absolutely boring! I had to hunt for so many packages to find anything I wanted to use, and it didn’t even have most of the basics a lot of other lightweight distros have. For being lightweight, this distro is slow as molasses. In general, I’ve gotten problems so much by just trying to use this as a daily driver on my computer.
I’d rather just use Slax, it looks better and from the packages, has a lot more to offer.
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Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 20210730
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-09-24
Votes: 1
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Easy to install, and has quite a bit of software installed, but this is one of the slowest Distros I ever had, but overall I've had much worse.
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Project: Absolute Linux
Version: 20201107
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-02-01
Votes: 3
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Great Work! I've always wanted a 1-app-per-task slackware distro that actually works and stays true to the original (you'll know what I mean, fellow slackers), and I've found that here. the IceWM desktop is ridiculously fast, and the software set is just right. The only problem is that, if you select the fast install option (or something like that, last time I installed it was pretty long ago), the password is NOT obvious, and is not on their website either.
9/10
Amazing desktop distribution, but fast install is useless.
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