Surprisingly 'snappy' in feel, it can be modified to look like many other distros but I made mine look like a mongrel with a Windows father but operating like mother, Linux Mint. Like many Linux versions it has its quirks but nothing as yet have I found insurmountable, and I am not an expert by any means. It uses its own graphic driver instead of an Nvidia driver as did Mint, but there have been no problems with any graphics I have seen. After several days of use I cannot think of any reason to revert to Mint yet.
Version: 1.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-09 Votes: 0
A distro that nails it target audience fully.
Essentially Kumander fulfills the promise of Linux Lite by creating a out of the box completely intuitive and functional desktop for non-technical Windows refugees, Not only is this distro perfect for Windows users but comes in on the low end of the middle weight distros, running Live at 485 MB of RAM (wit wifi running) on old hardware .The shock to me was how fast Kumander is, running circles around the heavier MX Linux.
I have some reservations about this as potentially being a one man sop distro,one that just missed being able to come out wit 5 years of support (Debian 12) vs the 3 years remaining on Debian 11.
I also could not apply the updates, I am not sure if that ad to do wit Live mode or not, but given i could download other apps and run them I tend to think it may be a bug.
For Windows users transitioning to Linux this is The Distro. My only caveat is I would use TAILS or Porteus for sensitive financial transactions until this distro demonstrates appropriate updating.
This is a job well done. Light on resources, fast as can be. and totally intuitive for Windows users. Kumander nails its target, a perfect bullseye.
Version: 1.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-07-05 Votes: 1
I tried it before the 1st release came out and it looks very nice.
It is (mostly, or completely?) done by 1 person and I hope this project will get some more help or joins up with another distro, taking all the good things with it.
Perhaps ZorinOS ? Or some other distro that caters to the same crowd.
There are lots of people that still run Windows 7 and a distro to bring them into the realm of Linux could be of great use for them. Mostly also because their Hardware is not so new either.
Surprisingly 'snappy' in feel, it can be modified to look like many other distros but I made mine look like a mongrel with a Windows father but operating like mother, Linux Mint. Like many Linux versions it has its quirks but nothing as yet have I found insurmountable, and I am not an expert by any means. It uses its own graphic driver instead of an Nvidia driver as did Mint, but there have been no problems with any graphics I have seen. After several days of use I cannot think of any reason to revert to Mint yet.
Essentially Kumander fulfills the promise of Linux Lite by creating a out of the box completely intuitive and functional desktop for non-technical Windows refugees, Not only is this distro perfect for Windows users but comes in on the low end of the middle weight distros, running Live at 485 MB of RAM (wit wifi running) on old hardware .The shock to me was how fast Kumander is, running circles around the heavier MX Linux.
I have some reservations about this as potentially being a one man sop distro,one that just missed being able to come out wit 5 years of support (Debian 12) vs the 3 years remaining on Debian 11.
I also could not apply the updates, I am not sure if that ad to do wit Live mode or not, but given i could download other apps and run them I tend to think it may be a bug.
For Windows users transitioning to Linux this is The Distro. My only caveat is I would use TAILS or Porteus for sensitive financial transactions until this distro demonstrates appropriate updating.
This is a job well done. Light on resources, fast as can be. and totally intuitive for Windows users. Kumander nails its target, a perfect bullseye.
I tried it before the 1st release came out and it looks very nice.
It is (mostly, or completely?) done by 1 person and I hope this project will get some more help or joins up with another distro, taking all the good things with it.
Perhaps ZorinOS ? Or some other distro that caters to the same crowd.
There are lots of people that still run Windows 7 and a distro to bring them into the realm of Linux could be of great use for them. Mostly also because their Hardware is not so new either.
I hope it will have a bright future.
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