Version: 2019-08-05
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-10-04
Votes: 0
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Gave Lindoz a try, I am a previous Windows 10 user. Been using Manjaro KDE because I like window dressing, things pleasing to the eye. I thought Lindox was excellent in that regard. These gents are artist something we don't have enough off in Linux. I found it ran smooth and fast on my $600 laptop. It has ambition to dazzle you and provide pleasure as you drudge through those numbers on spreadsheets.
I did have mixed feelings about the rotating circle menu. I'm not sure if I like it or not. The RAM load and CPU was near the same as my Manjaro KDE but a little lighter.
Frankly I'm glad to see someone being creative and following a more humanistic direction. Elegant does not mean it is not capable, it can just mean the guys thought outside the box. I'm glad they did.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-07-31
Votes: 0
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Stable, full feature d, intuitive desktop enviornment, easy to use, functional Compiz and Emerald, very polished distribution.
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Version: 2019.02.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-23
Votes: 1
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Flash 15 Is all round installation and Stable and working.
Installed Firefox, and got rid of a few bits and pieces that I don't use.
Just be patient with the install, it can take a while but worth the wait. Printer and network drivers all on tap, no problems there.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-16
Votes: 8
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Tried LinDoz edition. Terrible, don't even go there.
Tried Flash, absolutely superb. Good, stable, Debian-based distro with xfce DE,
I froze the desktop changer, can't be doing with a new desktop every time I blink. I prefer to make my own choice and stick with it.
Installed Firefox, and got rid of a few bits and pieces that I don't use.
I like it almost as much as MX 18,1, Very similar content, with a different DE layout.
Recommended for relative newbies wanting a Debian-based Linux distro,
Installed on an old Acer 5735Z laptop with SanDisk SSD, Runs very nicely.
Just be patient with the install, it can take a while but worth the wait. Printer and network drivers all on tap, no problems there.
Personally, had no problems with "apt remove" after updating.
Worth a go.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-11
Votes: 0
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Debian loaded with a lot of features and stable. . :-)
The length of the installation depends on the choice of programs and the speed of your connection. I have a problem with usb image, unetbootin did not do the correct iso but after installing and three days of active use 16 hours / day I found no error.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-09
Votes: 0
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Stable and working well with my Beelink SII N5000 mini pc
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-02-04
Votes: 1
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The installation went smooth and the performance is fine, but after "apt-get autoremove" (which I expect to work because it's a Debian-based system) and reboot it was not possible to login again.
This "behaviour" was/is reproducible. Created bug report #133.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-02
Votes: 1
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Wow, the Core edition is one of the best, highly polished Distro's featuring the XFCE desktop. It is based on Debian, but it is impossible to tell. It is fast and vary stable, with many of the most wanted/used programs pre-installed. It brings back the Emerald Themer with the most themes that I have ever seen. Plus it has Compiz installed and configured with many of the effects set up. Just need to turn it on and install the Compiz settings manager. I also installed the Fusion app. It didn't take long to have the desktop set up and themed to my liking.
The main two complaints; is that the window to restart, login and shutdown is not in the place where I thought it might be based on the many years of using Linux. Also there are a few bugs popping up from time to time but I am unable to reproduce them, so I have no idea of why the small dock/panel flashes and jumps.
Since it is a "rolling release" I believe, it would be wise to keep the computer running. I have noticed that the update manager shows frequent updates every day, if one gets too far behind in updating, Makulu might just "crash and burn".
I spent several happy hours trying out the settings and I am sure like this Distro.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-01-31
Votes: 0
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One of the most interesting desktop experiences I have had with LInux.
Pro's: Beautiful, innovative, surprisingly easy to learn.
Con's: A little slower to respond that others, my main distro is xubuntu.
Internet speed was slow, I'm on fibre and for some reason it just didn't want to work.
That is the first time I've had that happen.
Maybe something to do with Opera, not sure.
Back to just works Xubuntu.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-31
Votes: 0
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Excellent! Desktop is beautiful. Speed is awesome! Unique design! I love Makulu! Thank you very much for Makulu!
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Version: 15
Rating: 2
Date: 2019-01-31
Votes: 0
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three times I downloaded ISO. which can not be installed on disk. Unusable and unnecessary work
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-30
Votes: 3
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Slick. Visual design is tip-top and clean underneath. Really challenges how we access menus, I have to admit you don't have to dig or install this oackage or that for any setting change, its all preincluded and easy to find, which is considerably better than Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, or any competing distro out there today. Given its a rolling release, that is great as well, its all totally up to date. Things just work, but I did get it to hang the web app panel somehow. The only 1 thing I'm gonna miss from mate/gnome classic is the kill button panel applet, the one where you can kill a window by clicking, its a burden to search by process name. There are panel applets they call docklets, but very few, i hope they grab some/copy some from MATE and elsewhere, especially that essential kill applet. Oh and it was too easy to delete the main panel, should have asked "are you sure", because once its gone it feels a bit disoriented, its not straight forward regarding how to get the panel back, or back how it was. Again, its a quick spin so no thorough testing but for the average nonspecialist desktop user, or just someone who needs to get out of their mental box, this is your chance.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-01-30
Votes: 0
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Makulu is crash on 8 GB Ram with 8 tabs on Chrome open + Synaptic nothing else. On my laptop, Fill all 8 GB RAM and 2 GB swap. Web applets NOT runs. Is beautiful and unusable.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 5
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First impression of this Makulu Flash edition is Wow. It is one of the best, highly polished Distro's featuring the XFCE desktop. It is based on Debian, but it would all most impossible to tell, if it wasn't for the few seconds that the Debian flash screen shows at boot up. It is fast and vary stable, with many of the most wanted/used programs pre-installed. It brings back the Emerald Themer with the most themes that I have ever seen. Plus it has Compiz installed and configured with many of the effects set up. Just need to turn it on. Once I became familiar with the two menu's, it didn't take long to have the desktop set up and themed to my liking. I have a feeling that this might be my Distro of choice for a long time.
For the Cons;I couldn't find much to complain or nitpick about. It is a little bit confusing at a few places during the install, but it does have notifications telling one what is happening. I would say the installation process is between a Debian and Ubuntu in the way it works. The Introduction video states that it will have a panel and two docks after installation; I just had a panel. The main two complaints; is that the window to restart, login and shutdown is not in the place where I thought it might be based on the many years of using Linux. Along with the two completely different menues. A few of the notifications state info that a brand new user would have no idea of what it means; such as this install process will install some files with names that mean nothing to a new user, as well as some people that just want to use the Distro.
I spent several happy hours trying out the settings and I am sure this Distro will in use here for a long time.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 1
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Makulu is quite a surprise, tried it out years ago and just prefer Debian without Ubuntu. This an extraordinary release from the Makulu developers. Quite happy I decided to stop and take a look.
Pros: Very fast, no drag or sloppy behavior, works nicely live and installed easily from there. Themes and icons very nice and appealing.
Cons: Really can't find anything, very pleased with installing Makulu.
Makulu certainly changed my mind, very happy with the install!
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 1
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I am very impressed with Makulu Linux Core!
The customization of XFCE is really cool. It felt like I wasn't even
using XFCE. It was so much better. I enjoy the look and how fast it
is. The design enhancements of the hot corners and the dial are really
great. I love how easy it is to change wallpapers. I really like the
second dock on the right hand side that was transparent. The various
options in Settings is very nice as well.
Love this distro! I'm making it my daily driver!
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Version: 15
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 2
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I think that this OS has so much potential. My favourite version is Lindoz, I like it so much and I would not change anything at the moment. There is only one thing that needs to be improved (in my opinion): the RAM usage.. it is too high. With Lindoz version I have 1.1GB occupied. I hope they will reduce this amount in the future.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 0
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I have used Core, Flash, and Lindoz versions of which Lindoz is mt favorite. Installs nicely (had a bit of trouble with the latest Core version which would only install from a live DVD) but each is nicely configurable without jumping through a bunch of weird hoops. Has lots of useable software and installation of others is painless.
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Version: 2019.01.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-28
Votes: 11
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Makulu linux Core is an excellent distro. I am testing it now for my Linux daily driver. The desktop is very fast and easy to use. I like the fact that I can get to the menu in several different ways. This is great when you are in a hurry and you know what you want to do. I also like their webapps feature where you can ahve a webapps menu on the top of desktop where it saves space for your applications and time. Good show. The eye candy also make this easy on the eyes. No boring desktop here. I recommend to come on in and take a look and try it out.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-28
Votes: 1
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Stable, amiable, eye catching, and productive enough
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Version: 15
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-12-10
Votes: 0
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I can't get Lindoz to boot to the desktop from live usb.
Default boot option gets stuck on a blank black screen so i try the nomodeset boot option
I get to the login with a black screen then enter username and password (makulu).
Then i do 'startx' and it throws an error ,something mainly about "Xauthority" but also "framebuffer".
I have an AMD rx560 graphics card which might have something to do with it but the well documented "radeon nomodeset" command should work to get around that.
Tried the latest testing version too but no luck ,also tried uefi and non-uefi.
I'll come back one day in the future and hope they're released a better distro.
Meanwhile i'll stick with MX linux which always works.
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Version: 15
Rating: 2
Date: 2018-11-08
Votes: 0
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Tested version 15 and the newer FLASH version. Both load to the desktop and everything works except sound. A background noise of constant thump, thump, thump, except when the VLC media player is on.
I found this same problem on other Linux distributions. SystemD perhaps?
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-16
Votes: 247
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MakuluLinux-15 LinDoz is a stunningly beautiful and extremely fast running Debian testing based Cinnamon Desktop OS. It uses themes that resemble m$ Windoze themes (xp, win7 win10 etc). This makes it easy for m$ OS users to migrate to Linux.Installation is very simple. The iso itself doesn't have a lot of software installed, but during the installation you get to select which flavour of Desktop you want to use (Office, Gamer etc). Based on what you select the packages are then downloaded and installed. You also have the option for a barebones install, which doesn't download any additional software.
Pro's:
1. Extremely fast. The fastest Cinnamon based OS I have ever seen.
2. Beautiful themes and backgrounds.
3. Very good idea to have only one iso and let the user decide during installation what he's going to use the OS for.
4. There is also an ova file for download, which can be downloaded from the site and imported directly into VirtualBox, so users don't need to install it themselves into VBox, very good idea?
Con's:
1. To install anything other than barebone, you need an Internet connection when installing the OS.
All in all an awesome OS.
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Version: 15
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-10-13
Votes: 0
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1. It is very slow
2. I can not install another language than english, even if it choose "german" on the installer, after reboot, the system is in english and when i try to add the german language it will do nothing (choos german, klick on install and........tataaaaaaaaa.... nothing happens.
3. The idea is good but it will take some versions to install it again (may Makulu 20 or 25 will work good)
I don´t know how many people are on this Linus working but they have still a lot of work todo!!
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Version: 14
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-07-06
Votes: 3
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J'ai installé Lindoz sur mon Lenovo G50-30 et tout fonctionne à la perfection.
Makulu est stable et très facile à utiliser et je la conseille aux nouveaux adeptes de Linux.
L'installation est très facile et les applications embarquées sont suffisantes
et bien choisies......et on peut rapidement installer de nouvelles appli avec
synaptic.
La configuration d'origine est attrayante. J'utilise Siduction, Peppermint mais
je préfère Makulu car plus attrayante.
Je conseille d'essayer Makulu en live (mot de passe makulu mais ,qkulu sur clavier QWERTY) pour voir si tout fonctionne et si ça plait.
Le bureau est Cinnamon mais il existe une version Xfce plus légère en RAM.
..je mets 9 seulement car je préfère le bureau Mate , mais c'est mon opinion.
I rate a 9 only because a Mate version is what I think better IMO....with a Mate DE Makulu will become my daily OS.
...Please dev offer us a Makulu Mate.
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Version: 14
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-06-28
Votes: 1
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What sets it apart from other Cinnamon DEs is the ability to do much more Menu configuring. Unlike most Cinnamon DEs, where the seach box is at the top, with Makulu it can be set at the bottom, making it closer to the mouse pointer, which was used to open the Menu. (Conversely, if one uses a keyboard hot key to open the menu then one may feel more comfortable having the Search box at the top.)
Uses SU instead of SUDO, which some prefer. It still uses systemd, though, which I do not like. ymmv.
It has the typical Cinnamon theme installation headaches. (MATE is much easier to install themes, icons, cursors.)
There is no Plymouth splash screen so one will see the verbose boot screen.
Uses Synatptic Package Manager, which one who is very familiar with will probably like, but it retains the Apply button which other distros do away with.
I found it to be very stable and it also can update the kernels on the fly, since it is a Rolling release, unlike some other distros that tend to be difficult to update and install a new kernel, or the new kernels causes crashes or locks up the system.
Highly recommended for the very tech savvy.
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Version: 14
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-03-04
Votes: 2
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I am using a Dell Optoplex 780 2 core 8 gigs of ram. Testing Lindoz 14 out on with a duel boot.
I will have to say that the desktop pictures are nice. But for me I tested the steam in the OS it does not work, No none of the screen savers that are installed do not work has well. There are many parts of this OS that look like windows 10 an 7.
But I would like them to fix the driver manager it is not finding hardware in the computer.
Even if you are using AMD or Intel. it should see either one of them. Plus it should find your video cards.
The software store needs a lot of work has well.
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Version: 14
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-02-25
Votes: 5
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Has a couple of bugs here and there, but overall has the best Windows-mimic experience of all the distros I've tested.
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Version: 14
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-02-12
Votes: 8
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Running Lindoz 14. Found it a very pretty disto, Desktop feels like using windows 7. Lindoz uses Cinnamon desk top and has Xfce Version. Finding it stable, I am Mint user and finding this distro is on par with Mint but a little more effort gone into making the desktop looking nicer.
This distro at time of writing this is still under development but I am finding it stable and no issues at all.
Comes with good collection of apps
Fast and smooth desktop
Some App's are dev version like VLC and Gimp but so far but they work well.
My only nitpicking fault so far is the software package menu, it is Ubuntu, i prefer the Mint menus in software packages, but this is nitpicking. Really like this distro one that is really worth checking out,
Really good for newbies coming from windows, they will find the menus are basiclly the same as windows 7/10
I like this distro so much I am making this distro as my main driver for my desktop.
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Version: 14
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-01-09
Votes: 3
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I download Lindoz 14, make a live Usb with Rufus and boot in my Lenovo. Everythig OK.I tested Lindoz 14 for 1 hour....RAM usage is aroud 640MB at first login.
PROS:
A lot of nice and usefull App are included.
Everythig work fast and well.
Keyboard layer and language can be easely changed
CONS:
External peripherals (USB stick, DVD) are not automouted or auto
opened at insertion (whereas Nemo is configured for).
Some App's are dev version like VLC and Gimp..but they work well.
My fealing: good distro still under dev but totally usable for a Linux novice.
My only concern after 1 hour with this live distro is that I was not able to automatically play a movie DVD at insertion or automatically open an USB stick on insertion.
My whishes: Having the same Lindoz but whith Mate DE for a smaller Ram foot. So I rate a 9 and recommend MAKULU.
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Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-12-17
Votes: 3
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Very nice distro , now it has a linux mint/ubuntu version called Lindoz
And two debian testing based versions using xfce and compiz .
Very nice distro !
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Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-11-02
Votes: 4
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MakuluLinux Flash Devbuild 1.1.75 absolute dream to use highly recommend this distro and hope it gets way more attention. This distro is equal if not better than Linux Mint, Debian and Ubuntu flavors. The eye candy is amazing and the system runs smooth. Tons of features to choose from. You can customize just about anything.
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Version: 10
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-05-14
Votes: 0
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Very nicely done operating system. Great graphics and functionality.
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Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-23
Votes: 3
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Very nicely done operating system. Easy install. Great graphics and functionality to this OS.
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Version: 10
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-04-01
Votes: 1
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Distribution based on Cinnamon is labeled LinDoz is an exciting departure from regular flavors of linux.
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Version: 10
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-03-17
Votes: 1
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An exciting presentation. All Makulu OS have stunning, excitable and challenging for the User.
Looking forward to this latest product.
Geoff (Brissy)
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