SparkyLinux

Reader supplied reviews for SparkyLinux Average rating 8.2 from 117 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select 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: -- 8.12025.097.86.75.164.134.5.23.63.12.12.0.1 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: 8.1 Rating: 4 Date: 2025-12-11 Votes: 2 My primary issue is with passwords. Selecting a password for your personal computer or laptop shouldn't be that overly strict. Passwords that are too simple or fewer than 6 characters are not allowed. Also, an easily remembered password they said could easily compromised by dictionary attacks. Though, I don't remember the exact words that it says, but it’s frustrating. Additionally, the information available on online wikis is kinda unclear and not as detailed as I'd like. It's a shame, given that they are among the earliest Debian-based distributions updated right after version 13 was released. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 8.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-29 Votes: 4 i have used sparky several times on different HWs but it really excels with older stuff. I had mainly used Q4os for such situations, but what makes sparky better for me is APTus, I suppose most people would say isn't this just another synaptic package manager no better than say OctoXBPS ?. In that i like to use multiple Desktop environments (DEs ) on the same distro APTus makes that easier. Previously i had to use debians' ancient tasksel which never seems to get the installed DEs quite right. Sparky's implementation of package management of aptUS makes many DE's under lightdm (sddm slim etc) possible. For example enlightenment which is only available natively on some distro like Bodhi just works (and is not an option for tasksel). As a further test case; i have never been able to get Trinity to install/work right (thinking q4OS & exegnu distros), but on sparky installed with aptUS it just works !!. I find Bodhi interesting, but the Budgie Desktop is just as lightweight as E17 on older HW perhaps slightly better than xfce, but i suppose lxQT is my go to. Forget gnome, gnome flashback. kde, etc on anything less than 8G imho. I have used sparky on Toshiba's (both 32 & 64 bit) and thinkpad 470's along with dell [57]480s with absolutely no issues. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 8.1 Rating: 6 Date: 2025-11-19 Votes: 0 Having tried SparkyLinux version 8.1, there was issues : performance regressions on same hardware, desktop environment instability searching LXQt programs in the desktop, blueman-applet not in system tray, Clocks not alarming, google docs not able to "ctrl +p", booting issues, scanning is slower, just buggy. Going back to SparkyLinux version 7.8, that was far more developed, all the errors ironed out, there is something beautiful not needing to upgrade, stable, power management works, just turn it on, have everything work, then turn it off Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 117 reader reviews of SparkyLinux...