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Reader supplied reviews for MocaccinoOS
Average rating
7.6 from 7 review(s)
Version: 25.11
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-12-28
Votes: 3
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I tried it out in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine. I'm someone that did daily drive its predecessor distro, Sabayon, for a while. So my review will mostly focus on the contrast between it and its predecessor, and how convenient it is to run in a virtual machine.
Pros:
* Has spice-vdagent in its official repos and is easy to set up for auto-rescalling of guest to host window and shared clipboard.
* Package manager, Luet, is marginally faster than Sabayon's package manager, Entropy.
* Adding extra repos is fairly easy and is done by installing those repos with Luet.
* Luet is nicely verbose in its output like Entropy.
* GNOME edition has a pretty icon theme by default.
Cons:
* Many packages you need to get from repos not enabled by default.
* Upgrading one's system often leads to Luet installing the same version of many of your installed packages just from different repos or different builds. This can seem like an unnecessary use of disk space (in storing the packages before they're installed) and network.
* Repos are missing several packages. In virtual machines, I don't need that many packages, but two I wanted were fastfetch and hyfetch and they were missing from MocaccinoOS' repos and I had to install them via following the upstream instructions instead. I also noticed that 0ad, supertux, supertuxkart, niri, jay, awesome, subversion, zed, julia, R, sagemath, sublime text, marvin, pymol, jmol, avogadro, openbabel, nerd fonts, texlive and texstudio, among others are missing from their repos (including their unstable repos). Granted, many of these can be installed via Flatpak or other cross-distro package managers.
* Unlike Sabayon, MocaccinoOS doesn't have Portage pre-installed, so you cannot use it as a backup for installing extra packages.
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Version: 25.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-10-31
Votes: 10
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This is actually a well put together linux distribution. I've been using their desktop edition with Plasma for the last two months and it has been having a solid performance.
As it is based on gentoo linux I wish they would offer an RC/openRC init option as well. They do have a runit version but it is only for Mocaccino Micro and not the desktop version.
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Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-09-23
Votes: 18
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Very good system. I can recommend it for all users which know something about linux.
You can use and easly configure Lutris for playing PC games. It contains always updated nvidia drivers with are easy for install with a little help of moccasino OS support webpage
Updrade time is a little slow and you cannot see its progression too cleary (i mean download speed so you cannot be sure that is not freezing) but it does not meke this system worse.
luet menagement is not know but its even better but using it is not difficult. Just use
sudo luet upgrade
and
sudo luet install apps/yoursoftware
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Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-09-21
Votes: 14
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For me almost perfect system.
It let me use yubikey without installing. It can you switch on hotspot on wifi without complicated configuration. Just swith on unlike almost all other distros. Luet packet management is not known by the hackers which is also very good. Besides that it contains software packages graph. management let you to install all flatpak software.
The only disadvantage of this distro is that it does not contain automatic support of trezor and ledger wallets.
It i got it it would be the best distro on the planet for me.
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Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 6
Date: 2025-09-12
Votes: 0
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You have to be willing to customize on this one !. I suppose the default background and rather garish colors are meant to encourage that. I tend to shy away from distro's where i have to learn new package management ie luet, but i like the idea one has to specify both the category and packagename when installing. I believe the MATE variant runs somewhat lighter than say on Ubuntu's version.
it does seem to have a snappy feel to it, but there seems to be not graphical installer for those packages. I believe because of it's small image size it will work very well on old hardware. My wifi firmware was just fine on the dell 7480
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Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-07-06
Votes: 2
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Boots from usn fine but thats where the good ends. Prompted for a password for the backlight which is a I could not find.
Does not load firmware for wifi either meaning no network device found.
AMD chipset
I genuinely would like a distro that is gentoo based, xfce that is cutting edge that works.
I did not try anything else because there was no connectivity.
The thing to does disappoint about distros like this is that they seem to edit the kernel to remove certain things to slim it down but they often cause more damage. A distro which is trying to be up and coming should include as much as possible firmware wise for compatibility.
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Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-07-05
Votes: 37
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Having tried MocaccinoOS, I found it to be a promising, minimalist Linux distribution with an innovative edge, thanks to its Luet package manager and layered approach. The Micro variant is lightweight and ideal for containerized environments, while the Desktop version, built on Gentoo, offers appealing customization. I enjoyed the system’s simplicity and flexibility, but I noticed slower boot times and some gaps, like the lack of Japanese language support, which required manual setup. Still a work in progress, it demands occasional tinkering, but MocaccinoOS is an exciting choice for those who enjoy modern, container-driven systems and don’t mind getting their hands dirty.
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Latest Reviews
Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 25.11
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-12-28
Votes: 3
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I tried it out in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine. I'm someone that did daily drive its predecessor distro, Sabayon, for a while. So my review will mostly focus on the contrast between it and its predecessor, and how convenient it is to run in a virtual machine.
Pros:
* Has spice-vdagent in its official repos and is easy to set up for auto-rescalling of guest to host window and shared clipboard.
* Package manager, Luet, is marginally faster than Sabayon's package manager, Entropy.
* Adding extra repos is fairly easy and is done by installing those repos with Luet.
* Luet is nicely verbose in its output like Entropy.
* GNOME edition has a pretty icon theme by default.
Cons:
* Many packages you need to get from repos not enabled by default.
* Upgrading one's system often leads to Luet installing the same version of many of your installed packages just from different repos or different builds. This can seem like an unnecessary use of disk space (in storing the packages before they're installed) and network.
* Repos are missing several packages. In virtual machines, I don't need that many packages, but two I wanted were fastfetch and hyfetch and they were missing from MocaccinoOS' repos and I had to install them via following the upstream instructions instead. I also noticed that 0ad, supertux, supertuxkart, niri, jay, awesome, subversion, zed, julia, R, sagemath, sublime text, marvin, pymol, jmol, avogadro, openbabel, nerd fonts, texlive and texstudio, among others are missing from their repos (including their unstable repos). Granted, many of these can be installed via Flatpak or other cross-distro package managers.
* Unlike Sabayon, MocaccinoOS doesn't have Portage pre-installed, so you cannot use it as a backup for installing extra packages.
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Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 25.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-10-31
Votes: 10
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This is actually a well put together linux distribution. I've been using their desktop edition with Plasma for the last two months and it has been having a solid performance.
As it is based on gentoo linux I wish they would offer an RC/openRC init option as well. They do have a runit version but it is only for Mocaccino Micro and not the desktop version.
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Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-09-23
Votes: 18
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Very good system. I can recommend it for all users which know something about linux.
You can use and easly configure Lutris for playing PC games. It contains always updated nvidia drivers with are easy for install with a little help of moccasino OS support webpage
Updrade time is a little slow and you cannot see its progression too cleary (i mean download speed so you cannot be sure that is not freezing) but it does not meke this system worse.
luet menagement is not know but its even better but using it is not difficult. Just use
sudo luet upgrade
and
sudo luet install apps/yoursoftware
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Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-09-21
Votes: 14
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For me almost perfect system.
It let me use yubikey without installing. It can you switch on hotspot on wifi without complicated configuration. Just swith on unlike almost all other distros. Luet packet management is not known by the hackers which is also very good. Besides that it contains software packages graph. management let you to install all flatpak software.
The only disadvantage of this distro is that it does not contain automatic support of trezor and ledger wallets.
It i got it it would be the best distro on the planet for me.
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Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 6
Date: 2025-09-12
Votes: 0
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You have to be willing to customize on this one !. I suppose the default background and rather garish colors are meant to encourage that. I tend to shy away from distro's where i have to learn new package management ie luet, but i like the idea one has to specify both the category and packagename when installing. I believe the MATE variant runs somewhat lighter than say on Ubuntu's version.
it does seem to have a snappy feel to it, but there seems to be not graphical installer for those packages. I believe because of it's small image size it will work very well on old hardware. My wifi firmware was just fine on the dell 7480
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Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-07-06
Votes: 2
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Boots from usn fine but thats where the good ends. Prompted for a password for the backlight which is a I could not find.
Does not load firmware for wifi either meaning no network device found.
AMD chipset
I genuinely would like a distro that is gentoo based, xfce that is cutting edge that works.
I did not try anything else because there was no connectivity.
The thing to does disappoint about distros like this is that they seem to edit the kernel to remove certain things to slim it down but they often cause more damage. A distro which is trying to be up and coming should include as much as possible firmware wise for compatibility.
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Project: MocaccinoOS
Version: 1.8.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-07-05
Votes: 37
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Having tried MocaccinoOS, I found it to be a promising, minimalist Linux distribution with an innovative edge, thanks to its Luet package manager and layered approach. The Micro variant is lightweight and ideal for containerized environments, while the Desktop version, built on Gentoo, offers appealing customization. I enjoyed the system’s simplicity and flexibility, but I noticed slower boot times and some gaps, like the lack of Japanese language support, which required manual setup. Still a work in progress, it demands occasional tinkering, but MocaccinoOS is an exciting choice for those who enjoy modern, container-driven systems and don’t mind getting their hands dirty.
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