Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Debian's Unstable (sid) branch with additional packages pulled in from Ubuntu LTS repositories. Nitrux strives to be a distribution suitable for laptops and desktop computers. Its main desktop environment is NX Desktop, a KDE Plasma desktop enhanced with "plasmoids" to create a special blend of aesthetics and functionality. The project also focuses on using redistributable, portable applications using the AppImage format. Registration with an e-mail address was required to download this distribution, however public downloads have been available since mid-2020.
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The manner this is assembled is very amateurish. It's like a kid who took apart his watch and tried to put it back together again.
Errors galore. One can write pages on each and all of them. It begins with booting errors. Plymouth didn't work. It kept having hiccups. Freezing temporarily, at times.
Live session looks nice in appearance. Does it work as supposed to? No. The package installer had scant little offerings. When trying to add another browser, it breaks.
Whatever contraption this is, avoid. At all cost. This is prob. the worst distro one has tried, of about 300 of them.
I've tried to install this on two laptops already. One works amazing and I love the look. Everything works. Even as an immutable OS, it still lets you customize a wide deal of things. It's a beautiful OS. This is on a Gigabyte Aero with RTX 1060 NVIDIA graphics.
On my second laptop, admittedly a ThinkPad from 2015 with NVIDIA legacy graphics, the installer won't even load. Even using alternative installer from USB won't even load to desktop. Plymouth fails to load every single time. Other distros recognize it as legacy graphics and move on to other drivers, but this one hangs on it every single time.
So if you're rocking any sort of legacy NVIDIA graphics, probably not for you right now, but faster computers go for it. You won't be disappointed.
I burned this to a USB drive using the app packaged with UZL-10.
I rebooted into the drive and selected the first boot option.
All was well until the message: ERROR: Plymouth failed to start, whereupon everything stopped.
This was the case with the next two boot options.
The fourth option, nomodeset, took it a bit further; all the way to starting UFW.
Then it went into what I think was a UFW set up cycle.
After 10 minutes and 4 cycles I gave up, rebooted into UZL-10 and formatted the USB stick
Yet another distro that fails at the first hurdle.
Perhaps it would be better to stick to older versions, presumably they work.
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