Exton Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Exton Linux Average rating 1.6 from 5 review(s) Please select 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 Exton 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: -- 260108251222251215251120251104251019250709250427250417250407250126 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: 260108 Rating: 2 Date: 2026-01-15 Votes: 0 I keep hoping this fellow will deliver something useful, something I'd like to install but I've wasted a lot of bandwidth and DVDs over the last year and won't keep punishing myself. I am out of patience. 5 times I've downed images from Exton and 5 times they either been incapable of doing simple things like hooking up to wifi or - and this is the real issue for me - the loaded live image cant do a simple mirror image HDMI to a Samsung 32" screen at 1920x1080. Mate, KDE, Cinnamon; it doesn't seem to matter they just snafu on this. Another thing he misses completely on most images are a few audio and video players. The last on I downed and burned had diddly boo so you can't even see how that works out. That's it for me as far as Exton is concerned. Maybe some day he'll stop pumping out rubbish, focus on really testing one iso and change the world of Linux. I'm not holding my breath. JJCB Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: OpSuS Rating: 1 Date: 2025-09-03 Votes: 3 as others have said, grub failed. used my distro to fix it repository was wrong fixed that updated and broke refracta installed penguins eggs and that worked why bother with exton Just go with opensuse tumbleweed I created my own distro with a custom kernel and no initrd or initramfs it boots in six seconds after bios on a 7 year old nuc i5 with nvme drive here is my grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=0 menuentry 'Tiny initramfs' { linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro rootfstype=ext4 quiet } if you think it wont work you have been wrong on 6 computers for several years now heavily modified refracta tools backup and restore using fsarchiver gui in yad offline devuuan repository it suits me perfectly but I got bored and wanted a rolling respin opensuse pleased me the most Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: OpSuS Rating: 1 Date: 2025-07-08 Votes: 9 I was interested in continuing my reviews of openSUSE derivatives. Exton OpSuS caught my eye and I decided to install for testing. The installer is somewhat similar and confusing to what I found with Deuvan, which is a blend of cockamania and guess work. Once through all that mess it installed just fine. Except that it didn't install a boot loader. I had to go to the command line and update GRUB. Then I tried to boot up Exton for testing. Except that, it booted only so far and then stopped dead with the cursor just blinking at the line to load my Logitech M325 mouse. Then it eventually went into a message loop, repeating the same message over and over. Then it went into an "Emergency Shell" mode. After which I quit, rebooted and wiped it from my drive. Arne Exton is way over his head by trying to bring out 9 separate Linux flavors (Arch, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Puppy, Slackware) within a period of less than 6 months. Apparently, his M.O. seems to be to create an end-all set of distros for Linux users. In regards to OpSuS, he has failed miserably and should seriously consider going back to the drawing board and eliminating most of the 9 distros and getting a couple of them to actually work! With that said, I nominate Exton OpSuS as the "worst distro"! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 5 reader reviews of Exton Linux...