SparkyLinux

Reader supplied reviews for SparkyLinux Average rating 8.6 from 83 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. 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 SparkyLinux? 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: -- 2023.107.16.65.164.134.5.23.53.12.12.0.1 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: 7.1 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-10-25 Votes: 0 Good -rolling distro -Senseable installation of apps including all basics such as Firewall. -Supports different desktop such as KDE Bad: -Aptus does not appear to install some items that it display providing an error. the apps shown differ than what is avaialble through apt-get install. -when using encrypted disk if the password is mistyped it drops to the grub menu instead of providing a retry so a reboot is required to try again. -Aptus App center search doesn't work properly. If I search for VLC several other apps show in the search results. -Riseup VPN performs differently than the debian version downloaded from the riseup site. Example choice of differnt countries. -no snapshot of system for restoration in the event of a failure -The clipboard manager should always allow te ability to delete all copied information after a specific time for security. -missing panel network utilization & disk usage Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2023.07 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-09-13 Votes: 0 I had SparkyLinux 6.7 (Po-Tolo), which ran perfectly, fast, simple but most importantly never crashed. On completing a fresh install of 7.0.1, LXQt amd64, Sparky stable edition, 2 days of use and the pc had crashed 5 times. Caps lock light does not come on, screen frozen, nothing works. As a full time Linux user since the 2006, this is completely new to me. This version is no longer stable. What ever has happened needs to be investigated. I fear the open source world has become bloated and some aspects have become vulnerable. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 7.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-08-15 Votes: 1 Good -The menu's are very crisp and clean to look at and select apps Bad: when using encrypted disk if the password is mistyped it drops to the grub menu instead of providing a retry so a reboot is required to try again. -Aptus App center search doesn't work properly. If I search for VLC several other apps show in the search results. Other searches do not work even though it is available in the repository. -The clipboard manager should always allow te ability to delete all copied information after a specific time for security. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 83 reader reviews of SparkyLinux...