Funtoo Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Funtoo Linux Average rating 8.6 from 5 review(s) What are your thoughts on Funtoo 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: -- current1.3 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: current Rating: 10 Date: 2023-04-23 Votes: 3 I looked for a distro which was, at the same time, a valid alternative to gentoo but easier to manage. I tried to install gentoo this year, 20 years after I tried it for the first time, but I had to stop after a week because of configuration problems. I tried Funtoo that seemed to me a possible alternative and now I think it is a great equilibrium. Everything worked as expected after the installation and when I did not find a program in the portage tree I was able to install it from its AppImage version or by decompressing the .deb version and copying files by hand, but this is a issue related to very few and secondary programs. The system seems to be stable and working. I think I'll stop to continuosly change my distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2022-08-29 Votes: 7 When I encountered Funtoo the most meaningful contribution that drew me in at the time was the concept of a meta-distribution. Testing out management and building a metadistribution with select packages made life much easier and manageable. Particularly for resolving hierarchical dependencies of software that I needed. The brilliant use of git to manage a rolling distribution was also a major bonus! With MetaTools coordinating which packages are part of the meta-flavour of Funtoo. The bootstrap evolved methods are also great! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 8 Date: 2021-11-06 Votes: 13 This is the best Gentoo alternative. It's easy to use, easy to customize because of so many desktop environments available. The 2 negatves I have are-, getting rid of the GNOME desktop enivornment would be great- it's bloated, slow and not user friendly and it's difficult to customize. I would also like more up-to-date versions of applications including ones I use a lot: Firefox, LibreOffice and Thunderbird. Other than the 2 negatives above, Funtoo has been stable, easy-to-use and it has a lot of packages you can install, including a lot more by other repositories you can add in. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 5 reader reviews of Funtoo Linux...