SpiralLinux

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Reader supplied reviews for SpiralLinux Average rating 9.0 from 47 review(s) What are your thoughts on SpiralLinux? 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: -- 12.23112011.220925 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: 12.231120 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-14 Votes: 0 Big Debian fan, but I was looking for some method of smoothing out some things (install/updates/flatpack implementation/etc). Things were more than fine, but less overhead was kinda wanted. Enter Spiral. For my use, most of the boxes were already checked...no fuss, no muss. Up and running and a machine with my preferred settings all under 15 minutes? Shazaaam. If you dig Debian or want to go for it in the express lane with cruise control...try it. Extremely happy with this implementation. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 12.231120 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-24 Votes: 123 After a few days of distro-searching, hopping & an awful time trying to like MXLinux on my recently adopted 2012 ThinkPad L530, I came across SpiralLinux & haven't looked back. It truly lives up to the claims as an out of the box, ready to go Debian desktop. Coming from years of Xubuntu, I fell right into place with the XFCE spin. Instead of spending a few hours getting drivers, installing updates & all the tedium you might associate with a clean-slate Debian system, I spent a few hours PERSONALIZING my system with themes, cursors & all that visually fun stuff! Zero hardware issues, wifi just worked, both touchpad & trackpad worked without any setup, hibernate & standby both reliably work & waking up is a seamless experience. I'm sure I'll come across some hiccups eventually, but I'm truly impressed with SpiralLinux! Plus, it's a relief that "the 'developer-hit-by-a-bus' concern" of smaller distros isn't an issue here since, well, it's just a very polished Debian! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 12.231120 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-05-20 Votes: 124 The Absolute Best Out of box Debian experience one can get! The developer of Geckolinux have done it again and this time, the developer have done it to debian. The dev have set sane defaults for the base Debian, amplifying the out of box experience and it works like a dream with the rock solid stability of Debian Bookworm paired with OpenSUSE like BTRFS layout and implementation. Plus Spiral Linux have enabled BTRFS compression and Snapper application OOTB and they rules out some major pain points of post-install configuration in Debian based distros. SpiralLinux have also opted for the "grub-btrfs" fork instead of regular grub, so that we can easily list the available BTRFS snapshots right from boot menu for easier rollback plus SpiralLinux also have zRAM swap preconfigured. More than everything, SpiralLinux never tries to "one-up" Debian and rather than being yet another Debian derivative, it becomes just an optimized version of core Debian and it's one of the major selling points of SpiralLinux. Following this ideodology, SpiralLinux doesn't host separate repositories for it- Instead, it re-uses Debian's core repos. There's still other tons of optimizations and absolutely logical decisions made by the dev like TLP, Wide array of DE selections, Flatpak preconfigred etc and this is by far the absolutely underrated Linux distros I've ever encountered! Kudos to the dev and if the person reading this review is a Debian fan or someone who's wanting to dip their toes into the Debian world, then this is the perfect distro for you to try and it's enjoyable for Beginners and veterans alike. I honestly wish this distro gets more traction and other Distro maintainers and developers take inspiration from SpiralLinux Developer and their choices! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 47 reader reviews of SpiralLinux...