Exe GNU/Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Exe GNU/Linux Average rating 5.5 from 2 review(s) What are your thoughts on Exe GNU/Linux? 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: -- 20220306-chimaera20200707-beowulf202001032017121520161230201506254.23.3 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: 20220306-chimaera Rating: 1 Date: 2023-09-03 Votes: 1 The new version called "Daedalus" from August 2023 is rubbish. It's full of bugs: The installer doesn't work without using the command line manually, keyboard layout can't be switched properly (new keyboard layout can't be saved and is lost after a reboot), and Synaptic asks for a password but doesn't accept the defined root-password. It seems nothing has been tested properly and therefore the developer wasts the precious time of user who are looking for a distro for older hardware. The developer should better test his rubbish before publishing it. This is definitely not a good distro - neither for older hardware nor for new systems. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20220306-chimaera Rating: 10 Date: 2022-08-27 Votes: 25 This little distro is wonderful! It outperforms all the distro's meant to help 'old' systems run fast again. I've installed this on an old system I keep around to use more than anything else as our 'TV', but it's the *only* distro that doesn't take forever to start or run *any* app in the menu. My system: AMD Athlon II x2 250 ASRock A770DE+ MOBO Nvidia GT520 video card 4GB RAM 250GB WD HD (old as dirt!) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! sound card (I got this when it was a 'new' model!) The TDE/Trinity desktop also brings back wonderful memories of the days when KDE ran well and believed in the Linux/UNIX mantra of "Do One Thing And Do It Well.". It also looks better than Plasma and gives me back some control of things that KDE, for whatever dumb reasons decided upon, took away from me/us/the linux community. Anyway, I got rid of Firefox simply because of everything on the stock menu in this installation it was the absolute slowest to start up. I replaced it with Brave Browser, which unfortunately isn't yet in any of the Devuan/Debian repositories. Everything else works wonderfully fast and are the old things I remember from the KDE 3 days. I do need to go to the forums though and ask how to install the Nvidia blob driver for this card, as the Wayland does seem to tear once in a while and I've always had beautiful luck with the blobs from Nvidia on my Slackware systems. I tried probably 6 other distro's on this system, in hopes of them working this fast and well, *before* finding ExeGNU, and they eventually disappointed severely one way or another (sound wouldn't work right or not at all, video worked so badly couldn't watch movies, everything started and ran like molasses in January, etc). I was skeptical of this distro too, but now that I've had it up and running for two weeks, this is the keeper for this system. I can't laud the dev's of this distro enough and that they used it as a dirivative of Devuan (also another wonderful distro, just not for *this* system, heh). Thank you, ExeGNU dev's for everything you've done and making it so I have good memories again and didn't have to throw a computer away that I've had for a decade plus! Was this review helpful? Yes No