Reader supplied reviews for siduction
Average rating
8.0 from 34 review(s)
Version: 22.1.2
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-07-27
Votes: 1
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I tried everything lately (Fedora, Debian, Neon, Kubuntu, oSuse) but Siduction was the only distro that gave me "No bootable medium found" after installation. That was with EFI boot - installing with BIOS boot it worked fine. I ended up installing Debian and next installing Siduction into the Debian partition. That worked for EFI.
I made a full disk backup wit Clonezilla and later restored it ... to end up with a system that would not boot. That has never happened with any of the other distros I tried. So I chrooted into the partition and reinstalled grub. Now I am back in business.
The screen flickered frequently (KDE/Plasma). I tried kernel parameters in /etc/default/grub that had no effect. In fact, that config file is never used because siduction's config in /etc/default/grub.d/ overrides it. But siduction also uses a bleeding edge kernel that is even newer than the one in Debian unstable. I removed it and now use the Debian unstable kernel without flickering.
Almost all of the packages come straight from Debian unstable, i.e. Debian's repo is used directly. Siduction adds some artwork, scripts and configs but very little else.Out of almost 1500 packages on my system only 1 comes from Siduction to replace a package from Debian. And, strangely, apt-listbugs is not installed (you really need that on Debian unstable). And I am sorry to say I do not like the artwork.
Obviously Sidiction is not for the faint-hearted, but I did end up with a rolling-release system that is probably more stable than Arch or Tumbleweed. For the time being.
I use Debian unstable on another computer and I know that sooner or later that system will fail. I happened before. It will happen again. But I hope that somehow Siduction will keep running on that unfortunate day. When that happens I will be back here with praises and a much higher rating.
Have a nice day!
JS
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Version: 22.1.2
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-07-10
Votes: 1
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I ran siduction in live mode and it seemed like the perfect distro. It instantly recognized my printers, wi-fi, etc. It ran smoothly without any issues. I was impressed. I thought it was just what I was looking for, a rolling version of Debian. I decided to install it, and the process went well. However, during my first run, I discovered that there was no sound. I spent the next two days adjusting the settings, working the command line, and looking for help on the internet. All to no avail. Nothing worked. So I installed Spiral Linux instead. Problem solved. siduction aborted.
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Version: 22.1.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-08
Votes: 10
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After 15 years of running Ubuntu on every machine, I distro-hopped for a year, and finally settled on Siduction.
Why? Because Siduction gives me the most polished Debian-based distro I have ever experienced.
I am running the KDE Plasma desktop version and I feel that it is as polished as the Manjaro KDE Plasma version.
The Calamares installer supports encryption, Btrfs + rollback, and hibernation to a swap partition.
In the 6 months that I have been using Siduction, I have installed it on my Intel laptop and my AMD desktop.
Stability has been perfect!
Yes, I have experienced a small issue due to Debian unstable "Sid" which didn't break my system. I handled it on one computer by rolling back to the previous day, and continuing from there. I handled it on the other computer by waiting a few days before updating the system.
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