SpiralLinux

Reader supplied reviews for SpiralLinux Average rating 8.7 from 34 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 SpiralLinux? 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: -- 12.23112011.220925 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: 12.231120 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-11-29 Votes: 3 I'm running SpiralLinux on all of my systems now. Main System HP Laptop I have been using Linux since 1996 (SuSE Linux 4.3) And Debian off and on since 1998. But over time the other distributions became more user-friendly and easier to use. And I became lazier. I had less interest in dealing with the core of the system. I just wanted to use the system. That's why I moved away from Debian. I've tried a lot of things. In the end it was Linux Mint LMDE and MX Linux. Everything is all right again. At least Debian again :) Then I came across SpiralLinux. By random. Through a brief notice in a forum. I then installed the system in a VM. Just to have a look. I decided on the Budgie Desktop. And as it had to happen, it happened. The test took less than an hour and SpiralLinux was my main system! Just awesome. The approach taken by the developer. Simply making a pure Debian more end-user friendly with a few tweaks. But not to interfere with the repos and let Debian be Debian as it is. Class. This is unique. Plus the simplicity of being able to use flatpaks if the Debian packages are not up to date. In short, I have found my system with which I will grow old. Big praise to the developer with the hope that he will continue to support us with his work for a long time. Even if you don't know your identity. No matter in this case. He's doing a fantastic job. Spiral Linux rocks!!! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 12.231001 Rating: 7 Date: 2023-10-05 Votes: 1 Really wanted this to be a success when I did a quick sample comparison of running live on i5 / 8GB: SpiralLinux_LXQt_12.231001_x86-64.iso -vs- debian-live-12.1.0-amd64-lxqt.iso Pro: With Firefox running but no tabs loaded, top shows about 1200MB used with Spiral; ditto with debian, about 1374MB used. Con: playing an mp3 - virtually inaudible volume level at maximum on Spiral and no fiddling with pulse audio fixed, but debian fine. useful applications like Feathernotes present in debian, did not see them in Spiral. Based on this it seems prudent once a preferred DE is known to compare the debian -vs- Spiral live versions because as a long ago stale newbie-to-intermediate I wouldn't know how to fix the audio now without researching. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 12.230926 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-09-29 Votes: 0 I have used Spiral Linux on a recent Ryzen based micro computer which supplements my main rig and have used it for some months now, advancing to the new version from the 11.22095 prior and initial version. I had wanted to see how well the advance of the system worked before writing of the experience. The system is really not so much a distribution as an unauthorized spin of Debian Linux and the most problematic finding that I had was that the specific version of Spiral Linux is nowhere to be easily understood from the easy documentation available off the GUI or from the Terminal. The system is really a true Debian system with only some framework of utilization that characterizes it as Spiral Linux and the software nowhere shows any clear element foreign to its legacy. As to the packages installed, I have chosen the conservative Debian model which I have implemented, not needing the most new versions, but the adjustment of Spiral Linux really does not press for a conservative take if one goes to its Synaptic Package Manager and looks to the Settings tab and the Repositories whih are available. It is clearly possible to move to the SID repository of the Debian packages and one can clearly move to a more aggressively bleeding edge experience through the Spiral Linux framework with a simple click or two. I have taken the less aggressive option of using the proposed upgrades before they have become incorporated into the main repository load and have seen no problems with that much less aggressive approach. Nothing in the Debian function is at all difficult. Perhaps in the Bookworm Debian now altered the need for Spiral Linux is less clear, but having a simpler interface which requires a bit less tinkering to get it workable to the end is still a plus. Everything I have used in the system has worked and the access to both installation and update of both standard .deb and of Flatpak applications works about as well as one could imagine they might. Debian Bookworm has done away with os-prober and that makes it likely to be a bit more difficult to use the vanilla Debian on a dual boot system without dpkg-reconfigure being run to account for the nature of a grub reversion adjustment. I have not seen this as a problem with Spiral Linux, although I could not guarantee that others would be so lucky. Debian has made itself more handy without the spin, but it is yet not always the most facile of Linux entry systems and does demand a bit of care and extra attention to details not to be seen in systems left easy for the novice. I am not exactly a novice, but I am far from a true maven of the Linux distribution panoply that I desire to go through all of the work without some help from others who have paved the way for me. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 34 reader reviews of SpiralLinux...