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7.8 from 16 review(s)
Version: 22.10
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-17
Votes: 0
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System info: Lenovo laptop T440s Intel i5-4300U (4) @ 2.900GHz 8Gb RAM
I did tried Ubuntu on this machine, while Voyager is based on ubuntu, the user experience is better.
They added all the little stuff that makes your gnome desktop more functionnal. Not that it would be hard to achieve, but adding all the gnome extension takes time and in Voyager it's ready out of the box.
I really like Voyager Box customizing tool: you can control a lot of the theming and effect provided with this distribution from the conky to the wallpaper and extension. If you get somehow bored with just a few click here and there you can completely refresh the look of your desktop.
Performance wise I do believe it is is on par with Ubuntu. They were both fast on this laptop and the 3 fingers gesture was flawless with this version of gnome weather it's on Ubuntu or Voyager.
..oh Flatpak and Snap are enabled so it's up to you to choose from what source to install from.
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Version: 23.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-08
Votes: 0
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Just wanted to say this is an excellent distro. I used it in place of Ubuntu main as it was crashing after the first update. Voyager is great and now my Lenovo IdeaPad 3 | 15IAU7 Intel Core i5-1235U upto 4.4GHz 12M Cache, 10Core 12threads
My laptop is not crashing anymore with update and is running very well. It doesn't have any bloat, but the color scheme (which you can change) is yellow --not my favorite color. That's ok, I love what they have done the the Gnome desktop.
If you are looking for a ubuntu alternation use this one!
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Version: 23.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-29
Votes: 1
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For me, I'm switching between Linux and Windows 10, but most of the time on Linux, it's the perfect distribution, especially with the release of version 23.04. Excellent in my view. At first, the interface is extremely friendly, as well as the main software installed as default in the initial system. I hope the developers continue on the path of improving Voyager, which I consider among Ubuntu/Debian-based distributions to be the most well-crafted and polished to run. I hope this distro run forever. Thx.
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Version: 20.04.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-19
Votes: 3
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New MSI Gaming series laptop runs perfectly and everything actually works. I've tried countless other distros with xfce and each have bugs and things like the icons for the indicator plugin on the taskbar are tiny and no way to resize them. Voyager needs to put out a xfce version again without the gnome garbage. I switched from ubuntu to x ubuntu in 2011 to get rid of the new gnome. XFCE and many distros are trying to become windows and are so tied up in this they are puting out garbage. I started using linux in 2008 and have seen so much fixing of what is not broken and it is getting old.
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Version: 22.04.1.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-10-29
Votes: 2
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Pro
- Work as a charm
- Great compatibility
- Look and feel
- Functionality
Con
- npthing?
For the newer user I can definitely recommend giving voyager a try.
Une distribution parfaite pour tous, à utiliser d'urgence. Une bonne distribution avec tout un tas d'outil pré-installé.
J'utilise Voyager depuis maintenant 1 an quotidiennement, c'est simple, esthétique agréable, sans restrictions sur les possibilités de configuration et installation, très stable.
Merci à l'équipe de Voyager pour leurs efforts.
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Version: 22.04.1.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-10-27
Votes: 2
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Really love the look, feel and functionality. The suite looks to be everything one would need for a fresh install. XFCE being my preferred DE is really what sold this distro for me. Been using voyager for a while and that's actually what ended up pulling me away from BSD os' for a while. The only nitpick i have is that sometimes on a fresh install the language reverts to French, but that can be remedied in a matter of minutes. For the newer user I can definitely recommend giving voyager a try.
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Version: 22.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-04-29
Votes: 5
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I installed this and it was in French. I thought maybe I had selected the wrong language during install, so I reinstalled being careful to select English, and it ended up in French once again so I gave up. The desktop looks very nice and the installed suite of applications looked to be everything most users would need. However, I don't speak French and at my age (i'm 68) I have no desire to learn it. I'll try again when I have some spare time. Hopefully I can make it work because other than the language, It looks to be a very nice distro.
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Version: 21.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-23
Votes: 9
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Voyager est la distribution qu'Ubuntu aurait dû sortir. Voyager corrige beaucoup de défaut de Ubuntu, Firefox deb, Flatpak inclus sans avoir 2 stores. Intégration de steam et Wine-staging facilités.
Une distribution parfaite pour tous, à utiliser d'urgence.
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Version: 19.10
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-10-03
Votes: 4
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I found Voyager in the early releases. In fact, it was the reason I stayed with a linux type of operating system. I really liked it. that would be around the 16.xx releases. But as the releases updated to newer releases, some functions that I liked were removed. when they reached around the 19.xx releases, I began having problems with the op system. after a couple of months I dropped down a release to get my old Voyager back. But eventually, you can't get support for old releases.
I ended up going to Bunsen Labs Lithium. Very nice Op system, it isn't Old Voyager but neither is the newer release.
I have missed my Voyager so I am trying this20.04.2 release and hoping for the best.
Honestly, before the 19.xx versions, VOYAGER was my go to distro. It had everything I wanted and I could add anything else i needed. It ran great with no problems.
Hopefully, this new release will have all the problems removed so I can have my VOYAGER back again. We will see what happens.
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Version: 11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-22
Votes: 3
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I've used Voyager based on Ubuntu over the last couple of years, and it looked great but was slow and frustrating. This latest release based on Debian-Stable, though, is absolutely awesome - very slick and responsive.
The package manager only draws from three Debian repositories; Release, Updates, and Security, so it really is a Debian system. But they've dressed it up with themes and extensions to make a beautiful desktop.
(My setup: WhiteSur-light applications theme, Yaru-light shell theme, McMuse icons, and Oreo-Spark (Orange) cursors.)
If you want a Debian-Stable system with Xfce, then MX is your distro (or maybe Sparky, SolydX, or Lite).
If you want Debian-Stable with KDE Plasma, then Q4OS or SolydK (possibly Netrunner or Neptune).
If you want Debian-Stable and a GNOME desktop, Voyager Live 11 is for you.
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Version: 20.04.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-15
Votes: 0
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J'utilise Voyager depuis maintenant 4 ans quotidiennement, c'est simple, esthétique agréable, sans restrictions sur les possibilités de configuration et installation, très stable, bref idéal pour avoir un pc qui tourne tout seul sans contraintes qu'il soit puissant ou comme le miens avec du matériel totalement obsolète.
Merci à l'équipe de Voyager pour leurs efforts.
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Version: 11
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-08-24
Votes: 0
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The best Debian is "Unofficial non-free images including firmware packages".This 11 Voyager , HDMI Sound is missing.
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Version: 11
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-08-24
Votes: 0
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Hopeless. Live version doesn't even allow the use of UK English, just the North American corruptions.
A very poor example of a Debian based distro. Shame, it could have been good, with just a little bit more work and the Ubuntu-based 20.04 offering is quite good.
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Version: 10.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-08-05
Votes: 3
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I've grown to respect Debian over the years, and Debian based distributions that carry on the stability but give a little spice are great. Voyager is an interesting distro for some of the little tweaks here and there. I like the conky and the conky configuration ability right on the desktop panel. I like the feel of the wallpapers. I like the OS' stability (Debian base). I like most things about this distro... except Gnome. Gnome is the one problem I have with this distro. It bogs down my system (uses too many system resources). Running a 16 GB RAM Dell, and Gnome should have enough memory, but it glitches, freezes, the screen flashes black and then comes back, there are errors about panels... A lot of problems.
When I use Voyager, I install it and go into non-GUI mode long enough to install Cinnamon or Xfce. Then it works beautifully. With Cinnamon, you can get all the little tweaks and interest that makes Voyager great to use, but there is something about the Gnome DE that is just unstable on my systems (I've it on two computers running Voyager with Cinnamon perfectly and a third computer running Voyager with Xfce because of lower memory).
Having to install another GUI is why I rate this 5/10. A newbie that boots this up on a computer without the latest and greatest hardware would probably have problems and would not have the knowledge and skill to go terminal mode and install another GUI. If Voyager would be adventurous and voyage out to other lands of interfaces (ooh puns) as offerings, it would be more accessible for more people. My suggestion would be to offer Cinnamon, Xfce and Mate or Trinity versions in addition to Gnome. That would broaden the field of potential users and probably increase stability for those with hardware that gives Gnome indigestion (a problem I have seen a lot for computers that are over 5 years old).
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Version: 20.04.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-06-14
Votes: 1
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Installed it trying it out as replacement for my old Ubuntu 16 LTS / Unity desktop. It looks very nice at first glance and I like the mac-os'ish look & feel combined with the flexibility of linux.
But fiddling around just 15 minutes after installing and starting I got it screwed by just using normal GUI settings. May be some of the updates I got presented also was the culprit.
But after fiddling around with "Optimisation" Settings customizing it to my needs (had the updates presented running in background in the meanwhile), suddenly the gnome indicator-panel with user-settings, wifi, clock/date, reboot/shutdown and so on completly disappeared!
I tried to find the problem, but in "Optimisations" there was just a warning sign with tooltip saying "error loading indicator panel". I tried to reinstall it with apt-get, tried to reset dconf settings and even deleting ~/.cache ~/.config ~/.local to "re-initialize" my user-profile.
But it just got more screwed falling back to completly "normal" gnome. I also noticed that voyager-os does not use any deb-package which maintains the mods. I think the system got simply screwed / overwritten by some updates which break some of the mods?
I also noticed the user-forum on voyagerlive.org is closed, the imprint doesn't give any hint who is responsible/maintainer and there even is no issue-tracker to report or discuss such problems.
It looks nice,... but with such bugs I will never practically swich to this OS looking great at first glance :-(
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Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-17
Votes: 4
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Great distro! works perfectly on my old Asus K54-HR. Well-thought details on the desktop like the little starters on the right and left side. I also like the radiotray thingy with a nice selection of stations already set up. Great software selection preinstalled already.
Big thank you to the developer team.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Voyager Live
Version: 22.10
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-17
Votes: 0
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System info: Lenovo laptop T440s Intel i5-4300U (4) @ 2.900GHz 8Gb RAM
I did tried Ubuntu on this machine, while Voyager is based on ubuntu, the user experience is better.
They added all the little stuff that makes your gnome desktop more functionnal. Not that it would be hard to achieve, but adding all the gnome extension takes time and in Voyager it's ready out of the box.
I really like Voyager Box customizing tool: you can control a lot of the theming and effect provided with this distribution from the conky to the wallpaper and extension. If you get somehow bored with just a few click here and there you can completely refresh the look of your desktop.
Performance wise I do believe it is is on par with Ubuntu. They were both fast on this laptop and the 3 fingers gesture was flawless with this version of gnome weather it's on Ubuntu or Voyager.
..oh Flatpak and Snap are enabled so it's up to you to choose from what source to install from.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 23.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-08
Votes: 0
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Just wanted to say this is an excellent distro. I used it in place of Ubuntu main as it was crashing after the first update. Voyager is great and now my Lenovo IdeaPad 3 | 15IAU7 Intel Core i5-1235U upto 4.4GHz 12M Cache, 10Core 12threads
My laptop is not crashing anymore with update and is running very well. It doesn't have any bloat, but the color scheme (which you can change) is yellow --not my favorite color. That's ok, I love what they have done the the Gnome desktop.
If you are looking for a ubuntu alternation use this one!
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 23.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-29
Votes: 1
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For me, I'm switching between Linux and Windows 10, but most of the time on Linux, it's the perfect distribution, especially with the release of version 23.04. Excellent in my view. At first, the interface is extremely friendly, as well as the main software installed as default in the initial system. I hope the developers continue on the path of improving Voyager, which I consider among Ubuntu/Debian-based distributions to be the most well-crafted and polished to run. I hope this distro run forever. Thx.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 20.04.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-19
Votes: 3
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New MSI Gaming series laptop runs perfectly and everything actually works. I've tried countless other distros with xfce and each have bugs and things like the icons for the indicator plugin on the taskbar are tiny and no way to resize them. Voyager needs to put out a xfce version again without the gnome garbage. I switched from ubuntu to x ubuntu in 2011 to get rid of the new gnome. XFCE and many distros are trying to become windows and are so tied up in this they are puting out garbage. I started using linux in 2008 and have seen so much fixing of what is not broken and it is getting old.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 22.04.1.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-10-29
Votes: 2
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Pro
- Work as a charm
- Great compatibility
- Look and feel
- Functionality
Con
- npthing?
For the newer user I can definitely recommend giving voyager a try.
Une distribution parfaite pour tous, à utiliser d'urgence. Une bonne distribution avec tout un tas d'outil pré-installé.
J'utilise Voyager depuis maintenant 1 an quotidiennement, c'est simple, esthétique agréable, sans restrictions sur les possibilités de configuration et installation, très stable.
Merci à l'équipe de Voyager pour leurs efforts.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 22.04.1.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-10-27
Votes: 2
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Really love the look, feel and functionality. The suite looks to be everything one would need for a fresh install. XFCE being my preferred DE is really what sold this distro for me. Been using voyager for a while and that's actually what ended up pulling me away from BSD os' for a while. The only nitpick i have is that sometimes on a fresh install the language reverts to French, but that can be remedied in a matter of minutes. For the newer user I can definitely recommend giving voyager a try.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 22.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-04-29
Votes: 5
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I installed this and it was in French. I thought maybe I had selected the wrong language during install, so I reinstalled being careful to select English, and it ended up in French once again so I gave up. The desktop looks very nice and the installed suite of applications looked to be everything most users would need. However, I don't speak French and at my age (i'm 68) I have no desire to learn it. I'll try again when I have some spare time. Hopefully I can make it work because other than the language, It looks to be a very nice distro.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 21.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-23
Votes: 9
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Voyager est la distribution qu'Ubuntu aurait dû sortir. Voyager corrige beaucoup de défaut de Ubuntu, Firefox deb, Flatpak inclus sans avoir 2 stores. Intégration de steam et Wine-staging facilités.
Une distribution parfaite pour tous, à utiliser d'urgence.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 19.10
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-10-03
Votes: 4
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I found Voyager in the early releases. In fact, it was the reason I stayed with a linux type of operating system. I really liked it. that would be around the 16.xx releases. But as the releases updated to newer releases, some functions that I liked were removed. when they reached around the 19.xx releases, I began having problems with the op system. after a couple of months I dropped down a release to get my old Voyager back. But eventually, you can't get support for old releases.
I ended up going to Bunsen Labs Lithium. Very nice Op system, it isn't Old Voyager but neither is the newer release.
I have missed my Voyager so I am trying this20.04.2 release and hoping for the best.
Honestly, before the 19.xx versions, VOYAGER was my go to distro. It had everything I wanted and I could add anything else i needed. It ran great with no problems.
Hopefully, this new release will have all the problems removed so I can have my VOYAGER back again. We will see what happens.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-22
Votes: 3
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I've used Voyager based on Ubuntu over the last couple of years, and it looked great but was slow and frustrating. This latest release based on Debian-Stable, though, is absolutely awesome - very slick and responsive.
The package manager only draws from three Debian repositories; Release, Updates, and Security, so it really is a Debian system. But they've dressed it up with themes and extensions to make a beautiful desktop.
(My setup: WhiteSur-light applications theme, Yaru-light shell theme, McMuse icons, and Oreo-Spark (Orange) cursors.)
If you want a Debian-Stable system with Xfce, then MX is your distro (or maybe Sparky, SolydX, or Lite).
If you want Debian-Stable with KDE Plasma, then Q4OS or SolydK (possibly Netrunner or Neptune).
If you want Debian-Stable and a GNOME desktop, Voyager Live 11 is for you.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 20.04.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-15
Votes: 0
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J'utilise Voyager depuis maintenant 4 ans quotidiennement, c'est simple, esthétique agréable, sans restrictions sur les possibilités de configuration et installation, très stable, bref idéal pour avoir un pc qui tourne tout seul sans contraintes qu'il soit puissant ou comme le miens avec du matériel totalement obsolète.
Merci à l'équipe de Voyager pour leurs efforts.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 11
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-08-24
Votes: 0
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Hopeless. Live version doesn't even allow the use of UK English, just the North American corruptions.
A very poor example of a Debian based distro. Shame, it could have been good, with just a little bit more work and the Ubuntu-based 20.04 offering is quite good.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 11
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-08-24
Votes: 0
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The best Debian is "Unofficial non-free images including firmware packages".This 11 Voyager , HDMI Sound is missing.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 10.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-08-05
Votes: 3
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I've grown to respect Debian over the years, and Debian based distributions that carry on the stability but give a little spice are great. Voyager is an interesting distro for some of the little tweaks here and there. I like the conky and the conky configuration ability right on the desktop panel. I like the feel of the wallpapers. I like the OS' stability (Debian base). I like most things about this distro... except Gnome. Gnome is the one problem I have with this distro. It bogs down my system (uses too many system resources). Running a 16 GB RAM Dell, and Gnome should have enough memory, but it glitches, freezes, the screen flashes black and then comes back, there are errors about panels... A lot of problems.
When I use Voyager, I install it and go into non-GUI mode long enough to install Cinnamon or Xfce. Then it works beautifully. With Cinnamon, you can get all the little tweaks and interest that makes Voyager great to use, but there is something about the Gnome DE that is just unstable on my systems (I've it on two computers running Voyager with Cinnamon perfectly and a third computer running Voyager with Xfce because of lower memory).
Having to install another GUI is why I rate this 5/10. A newbie that boots this up on a computer without the latest and greatest hardware would probably have problems and would not have the knowledge and skill to go terminal mode and install another GUI. If Voyager would be adventurous and voyage out to other lands of interfaces (ooh puns) as offerings, it would be more accessible for more people. My suggestion would be to offer Cinnamon, Xfce and Mate or Trinity versions in addition to Gnome. That would broaden the field of potential users and probably increase stability for those with hardware that gives Gnome indigestion (a problem I have seen a lot for computers that are over 5 years old).
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 20.04.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-06-14
Votes: 1
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Installed it trying it out as replacement for my old Ubuntu 16 LTS / Unity desktop. It looks very nice at first glance and I like the mac-os'ish look & feel combined with the flexibility of linux.
But fiddling around just 15 minutes after installing and starting I got it screwed by just using normal GUI settings. May be some of the updates I got presented also was the culprit.
But after fiddling around with "Optimisation" Settings customizing it to my needs (had the updates presented running in background in the meanwhile), suddenly the gnome indicator-panel with user-settings, wifi, clock/date, reboot/shutdown and so on completly disappeared!
I tried to find the problem, but in "Optimisations" there was just a warning sign with tooltip saying "error loading indicator panel". I tried to reinstall it with apt-get, tried to reset dconf settings and even deleting ~/.cache ~/.config ~/.local to "re-initialize" my user-profile.
But it just got more screwed falling back to completly "normal" gnome. I also noticed that voyager-os does not use any deb-package which maintains the mods. I think the system got simply screwed / overwritten by some updates which break some of the mods?
I also noticed the user-forum on voyagerlive.org is closed, the imprint doesn't give any hint who is responsible/maintainer and there even is no issue-tracker to report or discuss such problems.
It looks nice,... but with such bugs I will never practically swich to this OS looking great at first glance :-(
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-17
Votes: 4
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Great distro! works perfectly on my old Asus K54-HR. Well-thought details on the desktop like the little starters on the right and left side. I also like the radiotray thingy with a nice selection of stations already set up. Great software selection preinstalled already.
Big thank you to the developer team.
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