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6.7 from 11 review(s)
Version: 2022-12-29
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-08-31
Votes: 0
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Makulu is a strange distro, a hybrid Frankenstein monster. It promises stability, but the reason is that it comes with Ubuntu 20! Google Chrome doesn't work with flatpak because it needs a newer version of flatpak. It comes with Gnome 36!! Gnome is already in version 44. Some tools it brings are from Linux Mint, they don't even bother to change them, others are from Ubuntu.
It is focused on the aesthetic aspect, but it is limited to changing the icons and the place of the "dock". Gnome is a desktop that doesn't allow for too many changes.
On my new Lenovo IdeaFlex 5 laptop it doesn't even recognize Wi-Fi (Intel ac 9560), when any distro recognizes it.
The latest invention has been to release a distro with AI called "Electra". Why do you want Electra if Alexia or Siri already exists?
They ask about $30 for adding new "desktop themes". For $7 you get a Window$ OEM license.Asking for money for a distro with Ubuntu 20 and Gnome 36 is ridiculous.
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Version: 2022-12-29
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-04-11
Votes: 0
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This is very nice MakuluLinux OS that i like it very much to switch between desktop theme style like kde Plasma, Lindoz, etc but i find it very puzzling for one thing is it took up a whole 1TB space and leaving just 50.3GB space which i just installed new OS and not much i installed. I'm disappointed that it took up a whole 1TB space even it format correctly with 1TB and smaller swap space. So Something add up on home system files taking up space like that is not normal as I cannot install any more apps on it that tell me you have low space.
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Version: 2021-12-17
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-06-11
Votes: 0
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Makulu has been an interesting distro in the past. Past Xfce and Cinnamon versions were pretty steady and solid. I had grown to really like this distribution, but now Xfce and Cinnamon have been dropped in favor of Gnome across the board.
Gnome is a resource hog. The website tries to acknowledge this while trying to make the case that the use of the Gnome framework and not the front end means it will not hog resources, but the proof is in the installation. It fails. It fails pretty spectacularly, in fact.
I have an older system (quad core processor) that runs like a champ if I am running Xfce, Cinnamon, IceWM, JWM, TDE, Budgie, Enlightenment or most anything that is not requiring massive memory (8 GB RAM on this old desktop). KDE and Gnome simply will not run. It appears that all the tweaking done by the Makulu team could not make this run on that older machine. I tried it on my newer laptop (16GB RAM and a five year old processor). It chokes on KDE and Gnome too. Makulu was not the exception. It ran, but not well. One of the philosophical tenets of Linux has long been the ability to use Linux on machines that Windows has left behind. Makulu's switch to Gnome has rendered it completely useless for all but the most modern machines (a disturbing Windows performance trend that has been taken up by the KDE and Gnome systems over the years). I am sad to have to leave Makulu behind, but if it won't work, you have to move on.
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Version: 2021-12-17
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-06
Votes: 21
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I actually stumbled upon this distro looking for a rolling release debian , my debian opensuse tumbleweed if you will, yast is just awesome, which I highly regard more than the other distros, but don't quite love. I started out on ubuntu my first few years of dabbling in linux years ago and ended up on tumbleweed for the most part since, although I have always distro hopped.
I have to say I love the DE's in this distro, way better than Manjaros, and I can try all the different DE without wrecking my previous install to do so.
Pros, the Debian testing version installed on my old amd fm2+ mobo. Cons, I haven't found one yet, but will review when I do, however some will hate the fact that it comes with Chrome installed.
I've been this using for a few weeks now and I actually think I'm done distro hopping now, I hope the developer can continue to maintain this project!
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Version: 2021-12-17
Rating: 4
Date: 2021-12-21
Votes: 0
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The developer would seem to focus his attentions mostly on eye-candy to the exclusion of functionality, at least in the "shift" version. This latest version begins with a video of the assorted desktops you can choose. In my virtual box and also to a disk it was glacially slow and, ironically, never offered an install feature. Bizarre. Perhaps in the future function will play a more important role. Until then......
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Version: 2021-08-25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-10
Votes: 30
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A great, easy-to-use, fast, stable and beautiful looking distro. This review is for the “Lindoz” version. It looks great, is light on resources, has lots of customization and other repositories already enabled, applications are carefully chosen, installing programs is a snap (not the spyware package thing called snap), great tweaks and optimizations. I’ll be using this more often, I came from Zorin, but that OS is a bloated joke that makes you pay for the other versions which only offer different themes.
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Version: 2021-08-25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-05
Votes: 26
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I dropped everything and I use it on all my computers since 2021. I'm discovering now "lindoz" which really charmed me with its interface facilities and it's clean desktop.
I thank the whole group of developers and I really wish that this distribution will be very successful.
Good continuation :-)
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-19
Votes: 22
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This distro combines elements of "Linux" in ways that are not done elsewhere, re-imagining the possibilities of desktop workflow. It's innovative and masterful. I greatly admire the mind behind it and applaud the work.
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Version: 2021-06-29
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-22
Votes: 7
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I really like the "Gnome" environment but since it is associated with "Unity" which I do not like at all, I converted to XFCE. When I discovered "Deepin" which is based on "Gnome", I dropped everything and I use it on all my computers since 2015. I'm discovering now "Flash" which really charmed me with its interface facilities and it's clean desktop.
I thank the whole group of developers and I really wish that this distribution will be very successful.
Good continuation :-)
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Version: 2021-06-29
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-07-01
Votes: 0
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Lindoze version, tested in virtualbox. The UI is pretty nice and not just another cookie-cutter reference desktop environment. That being said, I found little helpful documentation on configuring the Variety implementation, with the Variety config program itself not seeming to effect things, other than to double up on whatever Item I am trying to toggle off on the display. I also found the brand promotion a bit much. I would much rather be told how to turn something on than have to figure out how to turn it off. So, an interesting technology demonstration, but with enough quirks that I won't be running it outside of a VM
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Version: 2021-05-28
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-03
Votes: 20
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Awesomely beautiful. Extremely fast and just works and works. Running the Core Makulu version. Awesome work, development team!!!!!!
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Latest Reviews
Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2022-12-29
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-08-31
Votes: 0
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Makulu is a strange distro, a hybrid Frankenstein monster. It promises stability, but the reason is that it comes with Ubuntu 20! Google Chrome doesn't work with flatpak because it needs a newer version of flatpak. It comes with Gnome 36!! Gnome is already in version 44. Some tools it brings are from Linux Mint, they don't even bother to change them, others are from Ubuntu.
It is focused on the aesthetic aspect, but it is limited to changing the icons and the place of the "dock". Gnome is a desktop that doesn't allow for too many changes.
On my new Lenovo IdeaFlex 5 laptop it doesn't even recognize Wi-Fi (Intel ac 9560), when any distro recognizes it.
The latest invention has been to release a distro with AI called "Electra". Why do you want Electra if Alexia or Siri already exists?
They ask about $30 for adding new "desktop themes". For $7 you get a Window$ OEM license.Asking for money for a distro with Ubuntu 20 and Gnome 36 is ridiculous.
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2022-12-29
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-04-11
Votes: 0
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This is very nice MakuluLinux OS that i like it very much to switch between desktop theme style like kde Plasma, Lindoz, etc but i find it very puzzling for one thing is it took up a whole 1TB space and leaving just 50.3GB space which i just installed new OS and not much i installed. I'm disappointed that it took up a whole 1TB space even it format correctly with 1TB and smaller swap space. So Something add up on home system files taking up space like that is not normal as I cannot install any more apps on it that tell me you have low space.
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-12-17
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-06-11
Votes: 0
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Makulu has been an interesting distro in the past. Past Xfce and Cinnamon versions were pretty steady and solid. I had grown to really like this distribution, but now Xfce and Cinnamon have been dropped in favor of Gnome across the board.
Gnome is a resource hog. The website tries to acknowledge this while trying to make the case that the use of the Gnome framework and not the front end means it will not hog resources, but the proof is in the installation. It fails. It fails pretty spectacularly, in fact.
I have an older system (quad core processor) that runs like a champ if I am running Xfce, Cinnamon, IceWM, JWM, TDE, Budgie, Enlightenment or most anything that is not requiring massive memory (8 GB RAM on this old desktop). KDE and Gnome simply will not run. It appears that all the tweaking done by the Makulu team could not make this run on that older machine. I tried it on my newer laptop (16GB RAM and a five year old processor). It chokes on KDE and Gnome too. Makulu was not the exception. It ran, but not well. One of the philosophical tenets of Linux has long been the ability to use Linux on machines that Windows has left behind. Makulu's switch to Gnome has rendered it completely useless for all but the most modern machines (a disturbing Windows performance trend that has been taken up by the KDE and Gnome systems over the years). I am sad to have to leave Makulu behind, but if it won't work, you have to move on.
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-12-17
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-06
Votes: 21
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I actually stumbled upon this distro looking for a rolling release debian , my debian opensuse tumbleweed if you will, yast is just awesome, which I highly regard more than the other distros, but don't quite love. I started out on ubuntu my first few years of dabbling in linux years ago and ended up on tumbleweed for the most part since, although I have always distro hopped.
I have to say I love the DE's in this distro, way better than Manjaros, and I can try all the different DE without wrecking my previous install to do so.
Pros, the Debian testing version installed on my old amd fm2+ mobo. Cons, I haven't found one yet, but will review when I do, however some will hate the fact that it comes with Chrome installed.
I've been this using for a few weeks now and I actually think I'm done distro hopping now, I hope the developer can continue to maintain this project!
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-12-17
Rating: 4
Date: 2021-12-21
Votes: 0
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The developer would seem to focus his attentions mostly on eye-candy to the exclusion of functionality, at least in the "shift" version. This latest version begins with a video of the assorted desktops you can choose. In my virtual box and also to a disk it was glacially slow and, ironically, never offered an install feature. Bizarre. Perhaps in the future function will play a more important role. Until then......
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-08-25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-10
Votes: 30
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A great, easy-to-use, fast, stable and beautiful looking distro. This review is for the “Lindoz” version. It looks great, is light on resources, has lots of customization and other repositories already enabled, applications are carefully chosen, installing programs is a snap (not the spyware package thing called snap), great tweaks and optimizations. I’ll be using this more often, I came from Zorin, but that OS is a bloated joke that makes you pay for the other versions which only offer different themes.
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-08-25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-05
Votes: 26
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I dropped everything and I use it on all my computers since 2021. I'm discovering now "lindoz" which really charmed me with its interface facilities and it's clean desktop.
I thank the whole group of developers and I really wish that this distribution will be very successful.
Good continuation :-)
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-19
Votes: 22
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This distro combines elements of "Linux" in ways that are not done elsewhere, re-imagining the possibilities of desktop workflow. It's innovative and masterful. I greatly admire the mind behind it and applaud the work.
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-06-29
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-22
Votes: 7
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I really like the "Gnome" environment but since it is associated with "Unity" which I do not like at all, I converted to XFCE. When I discovered "Deepin" which is based on "Gnome", I dropped everything and I use it on all my computers since 2015. I'm discovering now "Flash" which really charmed me with its interface facilities and it's clean desktop.
I thank the whole group of developers and I really wish that this distribution will be very successful.
Good continuation :-)
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-06-29
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-07-01
Votes: 0
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Lindoze version, tested in virtualbox. The UI is pretty nice and not just another cookie-cutter reference desktop environment. That being said, I found little helpful documentation on configuring the Variety implementation, with the Variety config program itself not seeming to effect things, other than to double up on whatever Item I am trying to toggle off on the display. I also found the brand promotion a bit much. I would much rather be told how to turn something on than have to figure out how to turn it off. So, an interesting technology demonstration, but with enough quirks that I won't be running it outside of a VM
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Project: MakuluLinux
Version: 2021-05-28
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-03
Votes: 20
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Awesomely beautiful. Extremely fast and just works and works. Running the Core Makulu version. Awesome work, development team!!!!!!
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