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Voyager Live
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Reader supplied reviews for Voyager Live
Average rating
7.9 from 23 review(s)
Version: 24.04
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-26
Votes: 3
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By far, the most easily customized desktop out of the box, even for a novice user. Voyager still needs a bit of spit and polish - For example, the installer says you're installing Ubuntu - makes no mention of Voyager. Minor things aside, this is a really solid distribution, especially for those who want Ubuntu without Snap, because that's fundamentally what you're getting here, along with a few extras. I'm one of the few who aren't a fan of Mint, and this is probably the best alternative if you're looking to go snap free and stay in the Ubuntu ecosystem-it even has a script included to convert it to pure Ubuntu system should you want to do that later. This distro really deserves your attention. I've been using it heavily for 2 weeks and have yet to have a problem. For those concerned that it is developed in France, the English was perfect and I never had any hint that what I was reading wasn't written by a native English speaker. There is also a PDF manual (GREAT addition - I wish more distros did this) and while screenshots shown in the menu are usually in French, all of the actual text of the manual is in perfect English.
I'm still looking for my 10/10 distro, but this one is easy a 9/10.
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Version: 24.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-20
Votes: 3
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Installation of 24.04 Voyager went smooth on an ASUS 2-in-1 AMD CPU and GPU laptop.
Voyager is definetly not an Ubuntu-based me-too distribution. It's a lot better. The developer put a lot of effort into details.
Theming and functionality is quite polished, such as
- deb packages available in package manager by default
- Conky pre-installed for desktop system information
- Gnome with usefull extensions pre-installed including the extension manager (with build-in search and install)
- Usefull scipts in a nice menu
I know that experienced linux user can do all of this with all other Gnome DE distributions too. But that is not the point. The point is, a less experienced user is ready to go out of the voyager box.
I never got my ASUS 2-in-1 laptop to auto-rotate display (because all linux kernels so far lack support for the installed AMD cpu), but Voyager has the gnome extension "screenrotate" pre-installed and so it works.
There are so many distributions available but most do not even have printing enabled out-of-box,so much post-installation work is required (yes, I know sudo systemctl enable --now cups && sudo systemctl start cups ...)
Voyager is better in that regard.
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Version: 24.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-12
Votes: 5
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I'm a NOOB for sure, but currently running UBUNTU 22.04/ 24.04, LUBUNTU 24.04/ MINT LMDE and now this LTS version of 24.04 and everything has worked from install on an on old WD 750GB HDD to everything else but time spent is still young.
MINT LMDE is being run on an external SanDisk 2.5, W11 and UBUNTU 24.04 are dual booting on the 1TB NVME in my HP VICTUS with an I5 and 32GB RAM and last but not least UBUNTU 22.04 is installed on an external 1TB NVME. Why? because I'm a NOOB and must have too much time on my hands.
As stated everything is running very well with very Distro and 24.04 regardless is very nice but this VOYAGER install seems to be gaining traction for my sweet spot. How to describe why is another story, must be all the little nuances packaged within compared to stock UBUNTU 24.04. Whether that's good or bad doesn't matter. The only real issue I've experienced is being able to see all boot options with the 2 externals connected.
I like the LMDE boot screen more than UBUNTUS but when LMDE is connected with the external NVME neither loads for a selection and one drive must be disconnected for access to the preferred Distro at the time of my WHIM.
So why a 10? It works and haven't found a flaw yet the boot selection was an issue with the 2.5 LMDE installation before the new 750GB install of VOYAGERl.
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Version: 24.04
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-05-05
Votes: 7
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The media player refresh rate has lines in it when playing a movie either from streaming or from ssd. Maybe a bug? It has a line in the middle that you see while the movie is playing which is really hurting the quality of the movie. This happens when ever its streamed from a site or from a saved file movie from the pc. Format doesn't make a difference weather is mkv, mp4 etc. Not sure if its all pc's or just mine. I'm using Nvidia and according to the settings it's telling me that the appropriate driver is installed and working.
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Version: 23.10
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-10-23
Votes: 2
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The system hangs after installation, after locking and trying to unlock sometimes it is not possible to enter the user password, the input field is inactive, the Mahjongg board game freezes after starting a new game, and cannot be easily restored. I have not encountered this problem with other distributions. It's a pity, because the system and its environment look very nice and if it weren't for those errors, it would be usable for me. But I don't want to knock Voyager in any way, the problems I described can only be on my laptop.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-16
Votes: 3
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Hello all,
As a long time user near Mint and OpenSuse, i would tell new users to linux to try it.
UI and UX are very smooth, and it is based on the last debian 12 bookworm.
There are tons of tips on the website...
Be confident on the quality oh this "customized" distrib created by a french guy called Rodolphe.
He is very creative and involved in making this usable on many types of machines.
All basic apps you need are included and of course you can apt or flatpak other apps...
Really really worth to try and install for everyday use...
Have a nice play. Luuv
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-13
Votes: 14
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After trying everything on Linux from Debian to Gentoo, I needed something really stable. Voyager makes Debian more stable and easy to configure: codecs, for example. Voyager makes Gnome a pretty and practical desktop. I have not had any problems installing Voyager Debian 12 and no bugs in the first few hours of use. Good job Voyager!
On occasions I had tried other distros that make Debian easier and faster to configure, such as SolydK, but I prefer this distro because it takes care of the aesthetic aspect, something that neither Debian nor its friendly distros usually do.
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Version: 22.10
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-17
Votes: 2
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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: 1
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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: 2
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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: 4
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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: 5
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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: 2
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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: 24.04
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-26
Votes: 3
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By far, the most easily customized desktop out of the box, even for a novice user. Voyager still needs a bit of spit and polish - For example, the installer says you're installing Ubuntu - makes no mention of Voyager. Minor things aside, this is a really solid distribution, especially for those who want Ubuntu without Snap, because that's fundamentally what you're getting here, along with a few extras. I'm one of the few who aren't a fan of Mint, and this is probably the best alternative if you're looking to go snap free and stay in the Ubuntu ecosystem-it even has a script included to convert it to pure Ubuntu system should you want to do that later. This distro really deserves your attention. I've been using it heavily for 2 weeks and have yet to have a problem. For those concerned that it is developed in France, the English was perfect and I never had any hint that what I was reading wasn't written by a native English speaker. There is also a PDF manual (GREAT addition - I wish more distros did this) and while screenshots shown in the menu are usually in French, all of the actual text of the manual is in perfect English.
I'm still looking for my 10/10 distro, but this one is easy a 9/10.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 24.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-20
Votes: 3
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Installation of 24.04 Voyager went smooth on an ASUS 2-in-1 AMD CPU and GPU laptop.
Voyager is definetly not an Ubuntu-based me-too distribution. It's a lot better. The developer put a lot of effort into details.
Theming and functionality is quite polished, such as
- deb packages available in package manager by default
- Conky pre-installed for desktop system information
- Gnome with usefull extensions pre-installed including the extension manager (with build-in search and install)
- Usefull scipts in a nice menu
I know that experienced linux user can do all of this with all other Gnome DE distributions too. But that is not the point. The point is, a less experienced user is ready to go out of the voyager box.
I never got my ASUS 2-in-1 laptop to auto-rotate display (because all linux kernels so far lack support for the installed AMD cpu), but Voyager has the gnome extension "screenrotate" pre-installed and so it works.
There are so many distributions available but most do not even have printing enabled out-of-box,so much post-installation work is required (yes, I know sudo systemctl enable --now cups && sudo systemctl start cups ...)
Voyager is better in that regard.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 24.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-12
Votes: 5
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I'm a NOOB for sure, but currently running UBUNTU 22.04/ 24.04, LUBUNTU 24.04/ MINT LMDE and now this LTS version of 24.04 and everything has worked from install on an on old WD 750GB HDD to everything else but time spent is still young.
MINT LMDE is being run on an external SanDisk 2.5, W11 and UBUNTU 24.04 are dual booting on the 1TB NVME in my HP VICTUS with an I5 and 32GB RAM and last but not least UBUNTU 22.04 is installed on an external 1TB NVME. Why? because I'm a NOOB and must have too much time on my hands.
As stated everything is running very well with very Distro and 24.04 regardless is very nice but this VOYAGER install seems to be gaining traction for my sweet spot. How to describe why is another story, must be all the little nuances packaged within compared to stock UBUNTU 24.04. Whether that's good or bad doesn't matter. The only real issue I've experienced is being able to see all boot options with the 2 externals connected.
I like the LMDE boot screen more than UBUNTUS but when LMDE is connected with the external NVME neither loads for a selection and one drive must be disconnected for access to the preferred Distro at the time of my WHIM.
So why a 10? It works and haven't found a flaw yet the boot selection was an issue with the 2.5 LMDE installation before the new 750GB install of VOYAGERl.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 24.04
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-05-05
Votes: 7
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The media player refresh rate has lines in it when playing a movie either from streaming or from ssd. Maybe a bug? It has a line in the middle that you see while the movie is playing which is really hurting the quality of the movie. This happens when ever its streamed from a site or from a saved file movie from the pc. Format doesn't make a difference weather is mkv, mp4 etc. Not sure if its all pc's or just mine. I'm using Nvidia and according to the settings it's telling me that the appropriate driver is installed and working.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 23.10
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-10-23
Votes: 2
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The system hangs after installation, after locking and trying to unlock sometimes it is not possible to enter the user password, the input field is inactive, the Mahjongg board game freezes after starting a new game, and cannot be easily restored. I have not encountered this problem with other distributions. It's a pity, because the system and its environment look very nice and if it weren't for those errors, it would be usable for me. But I don't want to knock Voyager in any way, the problems I described can only be on my laptop.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-16
Votes: 3
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Hello all,
As a long time user near Mint and OpenSuse, i would tell new users to linux to try it.
UI and UX are very smooth, and it is based on the last debian 12 bookworm.
There are tons of tips on the website...
Be confident on the quality oh this "customized" distrib created by a french guy called Rodolphe.
He is very creative and involved in making this usable on many types of machines.
All basic apps you need are included and of course you can apt or flatpak other apps...
Really really worth to try and install for everyday use...
Have a nice play. Luuv
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-13
Votes: 14
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After trying everything on Linux from Debian to Gentoo, I needed something really stable. Voyager makes Debian more stable and easy to configure: codecs, for example. Voyager makes Gnome a pretty and practical desktop. I have not had any problems installing Voyager Debian 12 and no bugs in the first few hours of use. Good job Voyager!
On occasions I had tried other distros that make Debian easier and faster to configure, such as SolydK, but I prefer this distro because it takes care of the aesthetic aspect, something that neither Debian nor its friendly distros usually do.
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Project: Voyager Live
Version: 22.10
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-17
Votes: 2
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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: 1
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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: 2
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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: 4
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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: 5
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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: 2
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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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