siduction

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Reader supplied reviews for siduction Average rating 8.1 from 35 review(s) What are your thoughts on siduction? 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: -- 2023.1.022.1.221.3.018.3.017.1.016.1.015.1.0-dev14.1.013.2.013.1.012.2.012.1.111.1 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: 2023.1.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-12-25 Votes: 0 I'm a long-ish time debian and ubuntu user. I wanted to move off Ubuntu and use Debian, but needed more frequent updates than Debian's usual release cycle. After a few months of use, nothing has broken, packages have been updated quickly .... My only annoyance is that when I get my full-disk-encryption / LUKS password wrong on bootup, I have to reboot it as I don't know the magic grub incantation to retry. Also on my XPS 13, the console font size is way too small as my 13" screen is too high resolution. Oh well. The above are minor problems .... Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.1.2 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-07-27 Votes: 2 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 Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.1.2 Rating: 4 Date: 2023-07-10 Votes: 0 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 35 reader reviews of siduction...