Freespire

Reader supplied reviews for Freespire Average rating 8.9 from 10 review(s) What are your thoughts on Freespire? 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: -- 98.28.0.17.77.16.05.03.0.92.0.81.0 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: 8.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2022-04-27 Votes: 1 Freespire does the one thing all OS should aSPIRE to do: get the ... out of the way The user should not really notice the OS, except to say, good job OS. IDK what freespire (perhaps benefiting from the professional version, Linspire, there being a pro version; i think it's just support though, but don't quote me; the idea is that they get paid to make Linspire work, and they give you the same stuff for free but without the support, ie help from actual ppl in real time, etc.) The KDE is good, i got it doing what i want, mostly (left bar, button bottom, tray top, tasks middle, but it won't do half transparency when mouse leaves, like XFCE, so I'll be switching to xfce, or adding it in). I'm even getting used to the single click, like it more. It's odd though, not always single click. I think it's kind of a apple/mac thing, the single click, so i don't mind not using it. Probably just use xfce and not look back. Been a couple of weeks with this so far and it's great. Just no hiccups, no headaches, no hassle. Why should it be a hassle? lol So, two doors, one says "hella big hassle", the other door says "freespire". lol . to be fair, ubuntu works well; this is not ubuntu exactly. IDK what 'spyware' might be embedded in it, as someone said, but I'm not finding anything to complain about, at all. Except for that taskbar transparency thing, lol. Also, the login manager (as when coming out of sleep/standby) is a bit ugly and irritating, have to punch keyboard and whack mouse to get it to show password input field. I did install "ubuntustudio-installer" and all that, which is why i decided on an ubuntu base. Works good. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 8.0.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2022-03-03 Votes: 2 An excellent switch from Gnome to KDE in 8.2 due to user feedback. Now based on Kubuntu but with SNAP disabled by default. Yes there are plenty of other Ubuntu clones around but each will suit a different set of users depending on the software mix. For my needs I'm pleased it includes Calligra Office, Flatpak and Balena Etcher. It's also faster than most I've installed with a lower resource usage rate. I just installed the MX Conky Manager to have access to their range of themes. Nice logo and default wallpaper. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 8.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2021-12-20 Votes: 10 Another uninspired bland clone of Ubuntu. Not really much to rave on at all about it. It used to be a good Linux distro many years back when the original developers made it an independent distro and not based on anything and including custom tools to make it very simple and easy to use. It was back in the days of Xandros and such and when more Linux distros were more difficulty to use and heavily relied on the terminal. But all of that image of a great distro has faded away when another company bought Freespire and Linspire and made it another bloated, slow and buggy Ubuntu clone. The real only difference here is themes, some different applications and different wallpapers. It baffles me why there are so many Ubuntu clones that keep its spyware and just modify the look and feel. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 10 reader reviews of Freespire...