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Reader supplied reviews for Expirion Linux
Average rating
7.8 from 5 review(s)
Version: 6.2-251214
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-01-02
Votes: 0
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It's nice to see an LXQT edition. I am looking for ways to disable tooltips in LXQT before I become a QT developper.
There are three fads currently running: transparency, round corners and tooltips, and of those three I cannot stand tooltips. They get in the way and disrupt my workflow.
I thought someone may have solved this problem, but unfortunately not Expirion.
Expirion LXQT installs fine and comes with sensible default settings. Although some bias towards multimedia: brasero, audacity, hadnbrake... most perplexing of all, easytag as default fm?
While there is no single program to edit images. No lazpaint, no mtpaint, no kolourpaint, no pinta, no gimp.
There is some lag after startup. Normally, in systemd distros, when panel and desktop are set up, you are ready to go. here you click on terminal for example and must wait a couple of seconds before it appears.
Also the installed size of 6-7 GB is big, considering Devuan base,
Anyway, it installs fine and works, which cannot be said about many more reputable distros.
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Version: 6.1-251005
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-10-29
Votes: 7
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The first thing I noticed about Expirion is the fact you have to create your partitions manually using Gparted, which is no big deal if you know how to do that. There is a basic guide on the Sourceforge website under Files/Documentation that tells you how to partition your drive- The Refracta Installer actually works on Expirion I could not get it to work on Devuan
After installation was complete Expirion boots up and all my hardware was detected on my Dell Latitude E6530 Laptop.
Expirion is fast and very stable and has flatpak installed by default and is running Debian Kernel 6.16.3 - I enjoy this distro and is now my daily driver
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Version: 6.1-250906
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-10-04
Votes: 0
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Live disk loads OK.
Installation from USB key to SSD failed (black screen after boot).
Refracta installer gives erroneously "no disk with gpt table", "no EFI partition".
First time I encounter this installer, could not find a remedy.
I can't recall when was the last time an installation failed for me (no expert, but linux user for many years).
Xfce version.
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450 AORUS M
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F67g
date: 03/11/2025
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Version: 6.0-250701
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-04
Votes: 9
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I am running this distro on three of my machines.
I used v 6 with the xfce desktop and it is superb.
It resolves alot of issues that are present in the devuan 6.0 installer. The first one is where the debian style installer will not detect the wifi driver even though it was detected fine in 5.11 which makes no sense. You can get around this by inserting the 5.11 usb but its pretty poor that the standard wifi intel drivers are not available on the devuan install natively.
The second issue that expirion resolves is the live iso refracta installer, it just does not open on devuan and failes with a missing file error. Exprion has resolved this issue.
One point to not is that you need to make sure your partition table is gpt before creating your partitions.
If you are running a recent hp laptop, you will have to move the /boot/efi/devuan contents to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT and rename the grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi because hp have hard coded the path of the boot loader to only identify windows paths. Expirion wont boot otherwise, its a hp issue.
The system is effectively debian without systemd so you get most of the usual packages and it updates from the devuan repositories.
Its very stable, quick and reliable and is my permanent distro now.
Its devuan sid with the kinks worked out and better.
Every distro is subject to the users needs but this one actually keeps me from distro hopping.
There was just one app I could not get because it is only in flatpak but I just downloaded and installed myself manually from source.
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Version: 6.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-06-24
Votes: 6
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I tested the 6.0 version Xfce it is very stable and fast overall and solid performer - It has the latest version of LibreOffice at the time of this review 0n 24 June 2025 it is 25.2.4 , has VLC Media player, the Firewall is active by default it is set to Public. It has Gnome System Monitor installed so you can keep tabs on your system and resource usage and a wide variety of Icons and themes so you can customize it Even though is has no systemd like Debian or Ubuntu but uses Runit or SysVInit - Overall it is a nice experience to use and works really well.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Expirion Linux
Version: 6.2-251214
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-01-02
Votes: 0
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It's nice to see an LXQT edition. I am looking for ways to disable tooltips in LXQT before I become a QT developper.
There are three fads currently running: transparency, round corners and tooltips, and of those three I cannot stand tooltips. They get in the way and disrupt my workflow.
I thought someone may have solved this problem, but unfortunately not Expirion.
Expirion LXQT installs fine and comes with sensible default settings. Although some bias towards multimedia: brasero, audacity, hadnbrake... most perplexing of all, easytag as default fm?
While there is no single program to edit images. No lazpaint, no mtpaint, no kolourpaint, no pinta, no gimp.
There is some lag after startup. Normally, in systemd distros, when panel and desktop are set up, you are ready to go. here you click on terminal for example and must wait a couple of seconds before it appears.
Also the installed size of 6-7 GB is big, considering Devuan base,
Anyway, it installs fine and works, which cannot be said about many more reputable distros.
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Project: Expirion Linux
Version: 6.1-251005
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-10-29
Votes: 7
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The first thing I noticed about Expirion is the fact you have to create your partitions manually using Gparted, which is no big deal if you know how to do that. There is a basic guide on the Sourceforge website under Files/Documentation that tells you how to partition your drive- The Refracta Installer actually works on Expirion I could not get it to work on Devuan
After installation was complete Expirion boots up and all my hardware was detected on my Dell Latitude E6530 Laptop.
Expirion is fast and very stable and has flatpak installed by default and is running Debian Kernel 6.16.3 - I enjoy this distro and is now my daily driver
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Project: Expirion Linux
Version: 6.1-250906
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-10-04
Votes: 0
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Live disk loads OK.
Installation from USB key to SSD failed (black screen after boot).
Refracta installer gives erroneously "no disk with gpt table", "no EFI partition".
First time I encounter this installer, could not find a remedy.
I can't recall when was the last time an installation failed for me (no expert, but linux user for many years).
Xfce version.
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450 AORUS M
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F67g
date: 03/11/2025
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Project: Expirion Linux
Version: 6.0-250701
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-04
Votes: 9
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I am running this distro on three of my machines.
I used v 6 with the xfce desktop and it is superb.
It resolves alot of issues that are present in the devuan 6.0 installer. The first one is where the debian style installer will not detect the wifi driver even though it was detected fine in 5.11 which makes no sense. You can get around this by inserting the 5.11 usb but its pretty poor that the standard wifi intel drivers are not available on the devuan install natively.
The second issue that expirion resolves is the live iso refracta installer, it just does not open on devuan and failes with a missing file error. Exprion has resolved this issue.
One point to not is that you need to make sure your partition table is gpt before creating your partitions.
If you are running a recent hp laptop, you will have to move the /boot/efi/devuan contents to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT and rename the grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi because hp have hard coded the path of the boot loader to only identify windows paths. Expirion wont boot otherwise, its a hp issue.
The system is effectively debian without systemd so you get most of the usual packages and it updates from the devuan repositories.
Its very stable, quick and reliable and is my permanent distro now.
Its devuan sid with the kinks worked out and better.
Every distro is subject to the users needs but this one actually keeps me from distro hopping.
There was just one app I could not get because it is only in flatpak but I just downloaded and installed myself manually from source.
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Project: Expirion Linux
Version: 6.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-06-24
Votes: 6
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I tested the 6.0 version Xfce it is very stable and fast overall and solid performer - It has the latest version of LibreOffice at the time of this review 0n 24 June 2025 it is 25.2.4 , has VLC Media player, the Firewall is active by default it is set to Public. It has Gnome System Monitor installed so you can keep tabs on your system and resource usage and a wide variety of Icons and themes so you can customize it Even though is has no systemd like Debian or Ubuntu but uses Runit or SysVInit - Overall it is a nice experience to use and works really well.
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