SparkyLinux

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Reader supplied reviews for SparkyLinux Average rating 8.6 from 82 review(s) What are your thoughts on SparkyLinux? 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: -- 2023.077.16.65.164.134.5.23.53.12.12.0.1 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: 2023.07 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-09-13 Votes: 0 I had SparkyLinux 6.7 (Po-Tolo), which ran perfectly, fast, simple but most importantly never crashed. On completing a fresh install of 7.0.1, LXQt amd64, Sparky stable edition, 2 days of use and the pc had crashed 5 times. Caps lock light does not come on, screen frozen, nothing works. As a full time Linux user since the 2006, this is completely new to me. This version is no longer stable. What ever has happened needs to be investigated. I fear the open source world has become bloated and some aspects have become vulnerable. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 7.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-08-15 Votes: 0 Good -The menu's are very crisp and clean to look at and select apps Bad: when using encrypted disk if the password is mistyped it drops to the grub menu instead of providing a retry so a reboot is required to try again. -Aptus App center search doesn't work properly. If I search for VLC several other apps show in the search results. Other searches do not work even though it is available in the repository. -The clipboard manager should always allow te ability to delete all copied information after a specific time for security. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2023.07 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-08-12 Votes: 0 This review is for Sparky 8, which is a rolling distro based on Debian 13 Trixie. Pros: Easy install, has most packages that I need and use on a daily basis. I installed Sparky 7 MATE rolling release 2023.07 and loaded needed packages and all my data files which took a few hours. I then ran the Sparky 7 to 8 upgrade script which performed flawlessly. Sparky 8 runs very well. Cons: Printer support is lacking. Thus, an 8 rating instead of a 10. I have an aging HP ENVY 4500 All-in-One printer which has served me well for years. But I was not able to connect it through USB and instead had to rely on HPLIP to get anything to print. But the strange thing is that it prints multiple pages in "reverse" order. When you specify to print pages 1,3,5, it prints them 5,3,1. I've never experienced this oddity anytime in the past 40+ years with any printer or OS. Otherwise I am fairly happy with Sparky 8. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 82 reader reviews of SparkyLinux...