EasyOS

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Reader supplied reviews for EasyOS Average rating 8.9 from 28 review(s) What are your thoughts on EasyOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 5.74.53.4.72.6.21.2.8 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 5.7 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-02-04 Votes: 3 She's a little beauty, lightning boot up to desktop time after time, Updating and Rollback works very well and easy to implement, just follow the prompts, other software included is zappy and clean, makes for a functional Desktop, Claw's mail has the bells & whistles you need with built in Spam protection. Setting up the Desktop and your personal settings is clear and easy to get you up and running. Everything works! For enhanced Security and Privacy is the Container Management Options or the option to boot-up into, a fully locked down desktop you can use until the setting is changed back manually, this can be done from the right click menu, in Shutdown. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.4 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-12-07 Votes: 12 A compact and lightweight distribution with some exceptional features: - Works with the root user out of the box, so there's no need of issueing sudo / gksudo commands and typing a password countless times for launching programs - Can be easily installed on a USB stick and used on multiple systems with a single installation. It is also possible to backup the configured and customized system from the USB stick to an internal or external drive relatively easily. - Security oriented - Very lightweight. Also suitable for non very powerful hardware. - Great hardware compatibility. Most laptops and desktops will work flawlessly. - The session is eventually saved when the system is shut down. This makes it suitable for USB sticks (flash memories generally speaking), 'cause the file system won't be written all the time. The user is also free not to save the session when the system is shut down, so that no changes will be saved to the disk (including wrongly installed foreign packages, for example). - Password encrypted file system. - It is possible to add sfs files to the system and run them on a chosen level. There are also sfs files for gaining the ability to compile programs or adding device drivers. - The window manager (JVM) is very lightweight. - Despite compactness, lots and lots of open source office, utility and multimedia software included. - Support for Flatpaks and Appimages. - Automatically scans and detects network shares. - Possibility to display and control the screen of an Android device on the desktop. - It's a Puppy fork and therefore it's a Debian derivative: it will be anyway possible to install most foreign deb packages. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.4 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-09-17 Votes: 0 It may be a brillant OS/project, it looks nice, but I found a few nasty things. The USB-stick, prepared with Rufus, can not be/stay in a USB-port with Windows running. Rebooting from a running Windows, with the prepared USB-stick in an USB-port results in an endless loop. At the date I tried the last EasyOS, Chromium was of an older version, the actual Chromium (and Chrome) had just had crash-updates. EasyOS did not update Chromium. The options to download the latest Firefox and Vivaldi did not work. So potentially internet-browsing with the given Chromium could be unsafe. The prepared USB-stick (with EasyOS) can not be wiped/reformatted with a Windows-program (so also not with Rufus). So potentially an USB-stick with EasyOS, can not be used any more for something else (when you want to dismiss EasyOS). However I succeeded to get rid of EasyOS and make the USB-stick Windows-usable, using a bootable GParted CD (keep MS-Dos partition table (anything else crashes GParted with the USB-stick), delete the partitions on the USB-stick, create new FAT32-partition). I think a bootable DVD or USB-stick can better be made with a "big" supplier, daily/weekly build from Ubuntu or Fedora or Tails. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 28 reader reviews of EasyOS...