Tails

Reader supplied reviews for Tails Average rating 5.7 from 24 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 Tails? 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: -- 7.8.16.195.224.293.162.121.8.21.0.10.6 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: 7.8 Rating: 5 Date: 2026-05-21 Country: Germany Votes: 3 For me, Tails is a brilliant operating system that I used to love having on a USB stick. Unfortunately, from version 7.0 onwards, it’s no longer usable for me, as I can no longer set up persistent storage. Tails tells me that the partition is corrupted and that I should reinstall Tails. I’ve tried reinstalling Tails several times, even on different USB sticks, but unfortunately without success. I cannot set up persistent storage. I feel the developers aren't providing enough support. I've contacted them several times about this issue, but I've never received a reply. That's a shame, of course. I suppose I'll have to see if I can find a similar system from another developer. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 7.6 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-04 Country: France Votes: 3 Tails is my every day OS run on a disk less Dell laptop It does everything I want my laptop to do. it is simple to install and use I like Thunderbird being moved into additional software, its something I use daily and additionally lucky that my email provider uses an onion address for their mail sever, which I can log into from tails...perfect.. The reason behind the move was explained perfectly well in Tails documents. I look at the Distrowatch top ten of distributions, every now and then, apart from re inventing the wheel, new colours etc there is nothing I feel that beats Tails.. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 7.1 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-10-29 Votes: 27 Gnome sucks - let's be honest. Were the developers to switch to something simple, modded how they wish, like OpenBox*, there would be a MUCH SMALLER attack surface, the users would save A LOT of RAM, more space in the distro for more software instead of Gnome bloat, and so forth. At the very least, the user should be presented with an option at boot to use Gnome or something simpler like OpenBox*. The failure to properly spoof MAC Address is foolish. The included feedback program WhisperBack reports too much of the user's sensitive system information. I've experienced a number of freezes when using 7.1 and 7.0 which never occured on previous versions. Using a built in bridge as an alternative should be included. Instead, the user has to jump through the hoop of getting a bridge and adding it manually. Unless the network connection fails to connect to the network, in which case a default bridge is used, the user doesn't have the option built in. There is no simple clipboard application available which is frustrating. One can be added, of course, but this really should be included by default. * However, I don't believe OpenBox would be available because of the garbage known as Wayland. The forced switch to Wayland was not appreciated by my older hardware. Versions 6.x and below worked, 7.0 and 7.1 does not! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 24 reader reviews of Tails...