EasyOS

Reader supplied reviews for EasyOS Average rating 8.9 from 32 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on EasyOS? 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: -- 6.05.74.53.4.72.6.21.2.8 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: 6.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-18 Votes: 5 I have been a user of puppyLinux for years starting with version 5.2.8 and going to version 10.0.6 I have used easyOS 4.5 and I found it rather different to use and I really wasn't to pleased with its odd way of doing things. Recently I decided to give easyOS v6.0 the latest version a try. I downloaded it from the website as an image file. Next the .img file was flashed to a 32Gb using the Balena Etcher application. Booting was done using UEFI secure boot. It formed a boot loop with another UEFI secure boot operating system (LMDE) So I think easyOS can bios boot if you can make it the only UEFI secure boot or alter the grub settings. I switched over to BIOS boot and the process went smoothly. You can also make a password to boot up. In this old fashioned themed operating system, I found a rich version of applications already preloaded. All one had to do was look through the extensive menu. Chromium was there as the browser, LibreOffice already installed. A multitude of media players and convertors. There were even four different package managers. Additional browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi can be downloaded through the SFS system. There was also a unique file system that was saved on the flash drive. There are lots more things I can say about easyOS. I saved Balena Etcher, documents, downloads, media files to this flash drive. I made it to a ready to use utility tool. I felt like I was rediscovering puppyLinux all over again but it was now way more powerful and easy to use. Basic apps were built in and you only had to study the menus to find them. With this in mind I give easyOS version 6 a 10/10. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-07-11 Votes: 3 I feel the current rating 8.8 to be a fair rating. I began following the easy os for a while and decided to down load the img file and installed it to a usb for live use with persistance offered at end of each shutdown or manually. All ways work extremely fast, depending on how many new files your saving. Please note, easy os is loaded into the system ram, including new files whilst online, they can be downloaded onto the live usb. Note, there are different modes of use for easy, such as "all to system ram" and "no use of drives or partitions (for privacy)", no information made available through the browser nor hard drive or usb", though files can still be downloaded to another drive, choice is yours, so if you save a new bookmark, for example, it will NOT be saved unless a bookmark back up is saved, and this must be either on the live usb or another drive. This is not a limitation to using easy, just unplug the live usb your currently running, when ready to save, and then re-plug the usb, download your updated bookmarks or files, then unplug again and you are back your privacy settings. Easy os could be used for a novice, though there is a learning curve needed to utilize this amazingly fast and secure operating system. I was rather dubious about using puppy initially, as first appearance is more like a kid's operating system with an old retro look and smiley icons! Was I in for a shock, I had already been using Linux since 2000, many many different flavored operating systems, that Linux offers, so coming across one of the latest pup developments, easy os, my life has changed, not only is this little speedy os offering the very latest in privacy and security that has been developed (in Australia), that so early in the development, can offer such a robust, stable and speedy use. Updating may be down by a five year old, using the settings and installing, a ten year old could do! Thanks to the team responsible, best os out there, thank you Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-06-23 Votes: 5 It is very good in general. Easy and very fast. Very easy to install and open it from a usb pendrive. A little vintage in GUI design. Y have some difficulties to find and install new software. Iy includes small repositories. There is no software storage or online libraries. But you don't loss everything between sessions. You can install software and save files, and re-open them later. I have installed a new web browser, and a new office suite; and downloaded a lot of documents. All of them remains saved in the 'files' folder. So, shortly: fast, light-weight and easy to use. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 32 reader reviews of EasyOS...