Reader supplied reviews for MiniOS
Average rating
9.1 from 16 review(s)
Version: 5.1.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2025-12-08
Votes: 0
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Currently, MiniOS is not a good idea. To be exact, I have to say that I tried MiniOS Ultra. I think it is too raw. The list of available programs of Ultra form the box is too distant from sufficient. The official documentation is not clear for avarage users. The developer declares the best cuctomization of all Live systems, but... Try to customize MiniOS, you'll see, the process is too complex and badly described. Yes, persistence works fine. Yes, MiniOS works fast, obviously because of my fast CPU. But still, this product is too raw... Unfortunately!
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Version: 5.1.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-12-03
Votes: 6
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The best portable distribution available at the moment. I've been using MiniOS since version 3, and now I've upgraded to 5.1 - it's even better. I like that it's a full-fledged Debian, not some kind of stub. You can install any software. The modularity is very convenient, once you get the hang of it. In 5.1, the sound works noticeably better (they switched to PipeWire), and videos on YouTube don't stutter. It works very fast and uses almost no RAM. If you're looking for a replacement for Slax or just a fast system on a flash drive, install it, you won't regret it.
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Version: 4.1.2
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-11-07
Votes: 2
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I'm using miniOS 4.
I started by using miniOS 5, but I accidentally pressed the "restart" button at booting,
which, to my regret, wiped out all my previous settings.
I have installed miniOS 4 on VirtualBox, so I'm not sure if drivers will work properly when installed normally,
but it's a lightweight distro. It can be used even on older PCs.
The limited language support is a bit of a shame.
It took a lot of effort to set it to Japanese and enable Japanese input.
(I use fcitx5 for the first time because it doesn't seem to work well with ficitx4, which I have used on others.)
It's Debian, so updates aren't so frequent, which is a good thing.
This is a small but good news.
On Debian I couldn't install winetricks with "apt", while this distro is OK with "apt".
I use lightweight distros such as bunsen too, but I find it more convenient to have icons on my desktop like here.
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