I installed Maple Linux today after trying a few other linux versions to add as a secondary version. My main linux is Debian+Cinamon. I wanted to install Debian 13 on the second half of a hard drive on my Laptop to be able to move my stuff from the Debian 12 I've been using for a while.
I was not able to install Debian 13 from the live version because the installation would freeze while trying to split the drive in 2 partions.
While looking for a distro to install as a secondery linux on my laptop I found Maple and decided to try it.
It installed without problems after partitioning the drive contrary to the Debian 13 I was trying to install. So it confirmed that the freezing problem was not coming from my drive but from the Debian live I was using... strange...
Anyway, I am now using Maple instead of Debian and I feel at home with it.
The pros are that it looks stable and fast and works like a charm,
The cons would be, for some people, that there are less apps that come installed, but it is a pro for me because I can install the apps I really need in my system... And some of them are not in the libraries anyway, like Master Pdf Editor that I use a lot.
In the end, the fact that they don't try to add a ton of apps but instead prefer to offer a stable version of Linux is a nice thing...
Oh... of course I'm glad it's Canadian but it needed to be a good product first 👍
A pesar de que tiene el escritorio Cinamon es una distro que va bastante fluida en equipos de bajos recursos, tiene todo lo que puedes encontrar en Linux Mint pero me parece que está muy bien optimizada, me gustaria que lanzen mas versiones con escritorios livianos como XFCE, estoy seguro que con un escritorio mas liviano esta distro seria perfecta para equipos de bajos recursos.
Me gusta que trae la opcion para usarla en X11 y tambien en Wayland, otro detalle es que deberian incluir mas drivers para laptops con WiFi con tarjetas Broadcom, pero en general me parece una buena distro que todos deberian probar
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Project: Maple Linux Version: 1.4.5.7 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-05-30 Votes: 0
I installed Maple Linux today after trying a few other linux versions to add as a secondary version. My main linux is Debian+Cinamon. I wanted to install Debian 13 on the second half of a hard drive on my Laptop to be able to move my stuff from the Debian 12 I've been using for a while.
I was not able to install Debian 13 from the live version because the installation would freeze while trying to split the drive in 2 partions.
While looking for a distro to install as a secondery linux on my laptop I found Maple and decided to try it.
It installed without problems after partitioning the drive contrary to the Debian 13 I was trying to install. So it confirmed that the freezing problem was not coming from my drive but from the Debian live I was using... strange...
Anyway, I am now using Maple instead of Debian and I feel at home with it.
The pros are that it looks stable and fast and works like a charm,
The cons would be, for some people, that there are less apps that come installed, but it is a pro for me because I can install the apps I really need in my system... And some of them are not in the libraries anyway, like Master Pdf Editor that I use a lot.
In the end, the fact that they don't try to add a ton of apps but instead prefer to offer a stable version of Linux is a nice thing...
Oh... of course I'm glad it's Canadian but it needed to be a good product first 👍
Project: Maple Linux Version: 1.3.5.1 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-02-01 Votes: 2
A pesar de que tiene el escritorio Cinamon es una distro que va bastante fluida en equipos de bajos recursos, tiene todo lo que puedes encontrar en Linux Mint pero me parece que está muy bien optimizada, me gustaria que lanzen mas versiones con escritorios livianos como XFCE, estoy seguro que con un escritorio mas liviano esta distro seria perfecta para equipos de bajos recursos.
Me gusta que trae la opcion para usarla en X11 y tambien en Wayland, otro detalle es que deberian incluir mas drivers para laptops con WiFi con tarjetas Broadcom, pero en general me parece una buena distro que todos deberian probar
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