Reader supplied reviews for Pardus
Average rating
9.1 from 43 review(s)
Version: 21.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-18
Votes: 2
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Took it for a test drive and really was impressed with it. It's suitable for beginners and experienced users.
I tested it on an low spec laptop and it ran like a charm.
True, it's based on Debian stable and has rather older software. But it's stable and reliable as Debian goes, but also a pleasure to use en work with it. It runs fast and looks nice. It has his own, well balanced software center, and of course you can always use synaptic. So, no hassle to install what you need. It has a decent set of systems tools, without being bloated. Only minus point for me: firewall gufw is not installed by default. I hope the developers fix this in the next release.
In my opinion this is the best Debian bases distro I used, and it's good looking too. The developers really did a good job. It's a shame Pardus is not in the top ten of the rankings and that reviewers don't give it much attention.
Want a user friendly Debian base? Look no further.
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Version: 21.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-26
Votes: 7
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I have been using this distro for a week as my main machine now. I hopped to Pardus from Arch Linux since unstable packages caused me a lot of headache. This was not the first time I tried using Pardus but it was the longest. On GUI side, this distro is incredibly smooth to use. There is a nice software center and simple yet nice looking icons out of the box. Installation process was also great. It asked me things that I certainly require or nice to have. Everything complicated was hidden from me and I liked this approach.
Software center is great. There are no long cache retrieval durations, no buggy process bars, no random crashes, etc. I'm not sure if this is because the Pardus servers are near me but I can say that they work great, at least for me. There are many proprietary software included in the repos. Although one might argue that this shouldn't be the case but end-user loves such things. After installing pardus, I had a zoom meeting an hour later and I totally forgot installing the app. I confidently opened the software center and typed "zoom". The app was there, ready for me to install. I checked out the store for a while and noticed things like:
-Chrome, Opera, Brave, Edge, Spotify, Steam, Telegram, Discord, Skype, Slack, TeamViewer, some IDEs for developers...
I personally think these are great to have since most people would use at least one or two of these anyway. However, there are some major problems with other parts of the repo.
The repo is old. It's understandable for Debian to be old since Its main focus is on server stability. For end-users, however, this old repo is problematic. I found myself using third party package managers just to keep some packages up to date. Kernel is also in version 5.10. I think this should change in next releases. I don't expect it to be Arch level but I would appreciate newer packages.
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Version: 21.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-19
Votes: 3
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I don't understand why Pardus isn't used so much.
Once installed everything is ready to use without counting the stability of the system based on Debian,
Updating from one version to another is done simply and graphically.
Very fast, stable and secure
A lot of software is included.
You don't have to make many settings that need to be done after installation and this saves you time.
You just install and run it, it's that simple. I give 10 points out of 10.
This distribution deserves to be better known.
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