Exton Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Exton Linux Average rating 1.5 from 4 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. 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: -- 251120251104251019251014250709250507250427250417250407250126 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: OpSuS Rating: 1 Date: 2025-09-03 Votes: 2 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 Version: exGENT Rating: 1 Date: 2025-07-04 Votes: 1 Laptop did not even detect the usb as bootable. Used same usb for installing expirion directly after with the same write process as I used for exgent. That will tell you immediately. Even on the worst distros, i have never had an issue where the usb was not detected as bootable outside a faulty usb which was clearly not the case here. Maybe the dev should focus on getting one working perfectly first before branching into 8 others. Redcore is a perfect example on how to do a user friendly distro with gentoo, they just dont offer xfce. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of Exton Linux...