Salix

Reader supplied reviews for Salix Average rating 8.7 from 26 review(s) Please selecting 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 Salix? 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: -- 15.014.2.114.114.0.113.3713.113.0.2 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: 15.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-09-07 Votes: 2 I was a long term Slackware user. Later Zenwalk, then Salix user. Salix is still doing its best to keep the standard we used to. The selection of applications is still great. The additional packages available are somewhat limited, but still acceptable. However, the 5+ years release cycle of Slackware as a base of Salix is unacceptable in this overclocked world. All of the Salix ecosystem will be obsoleted with the speed of light. Therefore changes are needed. Salix should choose an other big and more recent distro (maybe devuan or debian) as a base. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 15.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-20 Votes: 3 Recently I have purchased a secondhand laptop, Compaq CQ 58. I want to use this laptop for work at home. Mailing, text-editing, watching movies. The laptop is more than ten years old, and I tried a number of distro's on it. But al them made the laptop extremely slow. Except Salix. Salix is a real good choice for people to use at work as well as al home. All the necessary programs ( Libreoffice, Gimp, mail, firefox, cups, etc.) are installed by default. And it is extremely light on system resources. Salix is based on Slackware, so there is absolutely no desktop oriented distro more stable than Salix. I wish there could more publicity give to this Operating System, because it very suitable to use in offices or at home. It deserves a lot more credit than it receives right now. (Maybe a review at Distrowatch could help in this regard). As a con could be taken that the installation is not graphical like many other distributions today. The install-program is dialog-based in the terminal. For me, there is no problem with this but maybe for other users it could be a little scary. There is also a live version with a very barbones graphical installation method. A great distro, deserving much more appreciation. Kudo's to the developers! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 15.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-17 Votes: 3 Awesome Slackware-based distribution that makes life easier for the average lazy Slacker. Especially with Slapt-get (same as Apt/Apt-get/Aptitude/DPKG in Debian/Devuan). Dependency correction is a feature, and it prevents the user from installing so much cruft I got a "full" Xfce desktop with my favorite GTK/Qt programs (including SlackBuilds and packages converted with DEB2TGZ), and it barely uses more than 1,000 packages. On my Dell laptop, uses barely 500 MB on boot, and it stays at 600-700 MB after a few days have passed. If I had some constructive criticisms, they would be to replace Firefox with a lighter/privacy-oriented alternative (e.g. SeaMonkey, Pale Moon) and make Flatpaks completely optional (I had to remove that bloat after install). The SLI (Salix Live Installer) is very thoroughly straight-forward and more user-friendly than even the overrated Calamares. On top of that, you have the choice of using LILO as your bootloader. If you prefer something more UNIX-like and as close to the *BSDs as possible, but Slackware is too overwhelming for you, then Salix or even Slackel would be the two respins of it to give a shot. You won't regret it. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 26 reader reviews of Salix...