Reader supplied reviews for Feren OS
Average rating
8.8 from 45 review(s)
Version: 2023.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2024-01-09
Votes: 2
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this has so much potential, if only it has more work takes place.
I truly hope all the best for this distro, but clearly the development process is very slow-paced, I'm not sure but i think because the distro has few developers/maintainers.
one issue I faced is some seriously dated repos, I guess debian have a competitor in that front.
but it's a very nice and bold take on creating a unique distro, i like that, but the job is far from over, especially on updating the repos
give it a try and you'll see how unique yet familiar it is, you'll notice that very quickly if you spent some time with linux mint
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Version: 2023.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-15
Votes: 7
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I use to use KDE Mint and Feren comes the closest to that and has improved greatly on it. One of the most beautiful distros Ive seen and the modified Win11 style desktop is very nice as well as the Feren theming. Its the best KDE distro Ive tried and stays far more up to date with kernel and KDE versions, than other Ubuntu based distros. No issues with install(uses Calamares), update or hardware detection and the added Mint features are really nice, like the updater and troubleshooter.
So many nice themes with this distro and the level of customization is something very appreciated.Codecs you can install when installing the distro and I had no multimedia issues at all. System feels noticeably faster than many of my other distros and memory usage was reasonable at 830mb.
Typically I would note a few cons about this distro but honestly there werent any in my use and the pros far exceeded my expectations. KDE users, former Mint users, new users and inexperienced users will find Feren easy to use and a great daily driver to get things done. Its using the KDE 5.25.5 and the 6.1 kernel but the 7.2023 version I understand will upgrade these further. App selection is good, with everything you need to get up and running out of box, including LibreOffice and Firefox. At first boot the welcome screen will greet you and help you familiarize yourself with the distro. Honestly cant figure out why this distro is rated so low on Distrowatch as its far better than some other KDE distros like Mageia at 27. Please give this distro a try and see what you think.
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Version: 2023.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-06-29
Votes: 1
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The KDE Plasma version is very responsive. The desktop has a polished feel. It comes with Vivaldi instead of Firefox. I consider Vivaldi as the better web browser. Software store works well. I type Chinese characters a lot and just like Linux Mint, it's very easy to set up Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai input methods. System updates are frequent enough, which shows that the distro is being maintained well and your system are kept up-to-date.The only problem I have is with the Calamares installer. It worked fine with one of my laptop and crashed on my second, newer laptop, making it unbootable. Took me a while to fix that. I have no problem with the Ubiquity installer at all.
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