Exherbo

Reader supplied reviews for Exherbo Average rating 5.2 from 6 review(s) What are your thoughts on Exherbo? 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: -- current 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: current Rating: 5 Date: 2026-05-02 Country: Germany Votes: 2 I'm giving this distribution a rating of 5, just for the package manager. In my opinion it's even more superior than Portage (Gentoo). But the distribution or more like the documentation of this distro is bad! I tried several times to install Exherbo but without success. I would call myself an advanced Linux user, I've installed and managed distributions like Arch (the Arch way), Slackware or Gentoo, just to name a few. It's one thing to configure and build your own kernel, I've done that on CRUX, but I couldn't get Exherbo to boot, absolutely no luck with systemd-boot. With GRUB it booted but it got stuck at some point. I don't know if that is my fault or not since I could get CRUX to boot on the same system, but as I said, the documentation lacks a lot. It also seems that some steps are in the wrong order cause after installing an init system (systemd) you are supposed to update the world set but it breaks with tons of error messages. If you first update the system and then install systemd, it works like a charm. I really wanted to give this distribution a chance but I gave up after like 6 - 7 times. Too bad cause in theory this distribution really sounds promising! Please do your homework and give us a better documentation and I would reconsider trying it again. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 3 Date: 2025-12-03 Votes: 2 “It’s impossible to install! Every time I try to install it, various problems occur. The installation guide from their site seems to be wrong. When comes the time for GRUB to install, whether in BIOS or EFI mode, the installation fails. And if you try to install dracut (which isn’t included!), it throws errors and causes package conflicts. There’s no documentation at all, and the filesystem layout is different from Gentoo’s. You cannot find how to resolve the issues. Where is, for example, the "package.use" file, the "make.conf", etc...? It’s as if the developers of this distribution don’t want any user to install it and are keeping it exclusively for themselves. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 4 Date: 2023-10-27 Votes: 2 Compared to Gentoo, it is too bloated in many ways. I think CAVE is superior to Portage, but I have no other reason to choose it. I have been using this system for a few days now and I still don't understand it. I have read that a package management system called Paludis can be implemented in Gentoo, so if you are using Gentoo, you might want to try that before trying Exherbo. I am going to use it for a while and see how it goes. By the way, don't forget that I don't recommend this OS because it has a lot of troublesome errors such as UNWRITTEN etc. So far, I give it a 4 out of 10. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 6 reader reviews of Exherbo...