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ExTiX
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Reader supplied reviews for ExTiX
Average rating
3.5 from 15 review(s)
Version: 24.8
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-08-24
Votes: 1
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Version 21.9 was the last time I last took this for a spin. The impression I've come away with time is not dissimilar to the one following my previous outing. There's been time and effort put into this distro, yet I'm left wondering between v21.9 and this one what the intended direction of travel is. Previously I felt 21.9 was quite disappointing on several fronts, not least of which was the sense the dev had paid no attention to issues that really should have been addressed before it's release. v24.8 seems to be a continuation of the underlying philosophy which has thus far produced significant criticism and little improvement.
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Version: 24.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-01-14
Votes: 3
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Exton releases are not worth my time. It lacks in default applications and so much else. There are much better choices, currently MX23 and Mint 21.3. All with support, forums and groups for help. I don't see how any Exton releases make any list. ExTix is sad like the rest, thrown together and zero support. After 3 installs i gave up and moved on to my list of distros that i think will be around for a few years. The days of a one person distro are over. When things go wrong users can't wait for days .... weeks for the dev to read their email.
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Version: 23.4
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-04-07
Votes: 2
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ExTix was not worth my time to install, very poor OS. Out-of-the-box Extix Linux is bit lacking in default applications. The bundled application do not include any office packages such as LibreOffice. Games and multimedia players are sorely absent. One of my major disappointments with ExTix is its inability to have an always-on Internet connection. I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that the ISO live session does not automatically connect to the host computer’s LAN connection. There are so many better choices. Just Bad!
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Version: 23.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-04-05
Votes: 1
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Sorry, but this "OS" still is extremely bad.
Many things doesn't works in Extix and I also don't see the SENSE of this distro, either.
It's also slow and sometimes confusing and totally messed up. No meat and no fish, as we say over here.
Distros like Xubuntu, Debian, MX Linux and many others are doing right and good, but not Extix.
Infact, this is the problem of a "one man show". Again: they are many BETTER distros out there!
I have tried it several times, but I always had been disappointed....a waste of time.
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Version: 22.12
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-12-19
Votes: 3
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My apology mate, I did try this in real PC. Installation is doing good but after the reboot it doesn't boot, it shows some kind of error. Further, after that error I switch to the bios configuration and sadly the usb stick with ventoy cannot be detected, it's quit unusual first time happen in my side. Keyring is looking for a password I yet we do not know the password. Nice work mate but over-all it needs to be tested and polish in this destro. See you in your next distro release mate, hopefully it would be more fine.
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Version: 21.11
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-04-16
Votes: 0
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I decided just to give the average rating for this system. It was fun to try on the disk. I haven't used Deepin in years so was kind of fun. It had a lot of what I needed and I decided to install it. It got to a point where it started counting. After several hours of counting, I stopped and tried again. It was over a week before I was able to get that USB port working again. I had to wipe the drive, unplug the battery again and again and again. Finally, I got something else installed. I have no idea what was going on. I was looking forward to giving this one a go but didn't happen.
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Version: 22.1
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-01-15
Votes: 0
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The overall rating of 4.2 IMO is way too high.
I just reviewed Siduction, which is also based on Debian, and it was great, I gave it a 9.
ExTiX, started complaining about Keyring passwords, as soon as I booted it live.
I don't have or use a keyring password.
The keyboard was so sensitive, I couldn't type on it.
Kept getting double and triple typing of each letter.
Once I got passed the keyring issue, which I had to blow out in ./local.
It still would not ever connect to my wifi.
This is a computer I use all the time on linux, Ubuntu, Mint, Siduction, Manjaro, & Fedora.
I recommend you start over and copy Siduction, which has a very good start on a Debian unstable Distro.
I'm sorry a wasted a couple of hours, downloading, reviewing, and beating on it.
It may be a good distro if you could ever get passed the obvious issues.
Sincerely,
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Version: 21.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-03
Votes: 23
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This is a fast, stable and easy to use distro. System resources are good if you use KDE or LXQt, but it’s more resource intensive using Budgie and Deepin. I wish the developers would take out the Budgie and Deepin versions and focus on the KDE and LXQt versions which are more stable and speedier. I was curious to try Budgie and Deepin, but I couldn’t keep it as a desktop environment that I’d want to use again, both Budgie and Deepin are bloated, unstable, crash a lot and take up a lot of ram while idle and of course even more when any applications are running, I saw 2 GB at minimum for both while running a couple tabs in Firefox, which isn’t the browser’s fault, but how heavy Budgie and Deepin are as desktop environments.
With KDE and LXQt, they are very customizable, lightweight and have more full features applications so you can get done day to day work.
I recommend ExTiX, but only the KDE and LXQt desktop environment versions.
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Version: 21.9
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-09-30
Votes: 13
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light, nice, suitable for both low end pc and high end pc, we can make new .iso file , so we can create a new distro from it
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Version: 21.9
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-09-15
Votes: 0
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There's little I can say that has not already been said by many about how incredibly dissapointing this distro is. I would just like to say to newcomers that this sham is in no way representative of what to expect from Linux distros in general, so please don't let this travesty put you off.
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Version: 21.9
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-09-14
Votes: 0
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This looked really promising, but its so buggy that it drove me mad!
If the dev spent some more time on this distro , Im sure it would become extremely popular, but at the moment theres too many hurdles to jump!
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Version: 21.7
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-07-11
Votes: 4
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Lot of negative comments for earlier releases, but this was the new mini LXQT version I tried and as a live USB distro it's quite impressive. I normally turn to Antix when trying to resurrect really old hardware, but it's very overloaded with menu entries and can be a nightmare for Linux newbies.
This is much more basic and minimal in terms of software installed, but still retains a good look that is easy to navigate and only uses about 350 MB of RAM to boot into the desktop. Older hardware is often restricted to USB 2 which can be as slow as booting from optical media in a lot of cases, so I decided to install it on an old Phenom machine.
Oh dear! They've opted not to use the standard ubiquity installer and used some weird custom jobbie, that starts in a terminal with a warning not to close this till the install is finished. It took a while to get to the next part and I was beginning to think it had crashed it was taking that long. There was no option to use the entire disk but gparted was provided to make your own partition(s) I opted to install a bootloader but it didn't work. Luckily I'd made a mistake and the old OS (MX Linux) was still intact and I was able to update grub to include it in the menu.
Bottom line - as a live USB fine, as an installed distro, also pretty good if you can get past the archaic install process and get it to boot.
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Version: 21.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-18
Votes: 0
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Extix 21.5 in VM (obviously)
No DM. Blank screen where i have to write startx.
No Internet connection . No easy way to setup the internet connection (Ethernet in a VM).
Refracta Installer fails.
Rating 1/10:
Advice: Use a common distro like Xubuntu, Linux Mint, KDE Neon...
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Version: 20.12
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-01-06
Votes: 0
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ExTiX KDE 20.12. If I could rate this distro a negative 10, then I certainly would. Anbox apps will not launch in live session. Immediate kernel panic when trying to boot after installation. Had to go to advanced settings to boot to fallback kernel. Could not log in to the desktop, even when I chose to automatically log in. This project is an absolute disaster, if you even call it a project at all. It's more like a 3-year-old attempting to create a Linux distro based on Kubuntu. Anbox is a dead project anyway; not even Arch would install it. Don't even waste your time downloading the ISO. Just get Kubuntu instead. AVOID THIS ABOMINATION AT ALL COSTS!!!
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Version: 21.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-01-04
Votes: 0
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Well as usual I wouldn't recommend you to use this "so called" distro. It just a a remaster of Deepin which a 10 year old would do better.
First of all you have 2 installers: the Deepin installer (that works fine) and Refracta.
Arne Exton adds proprietary software to the system (Spotify and Skype) and the usual LXDE applications (Lxterminal, leafpad and PCmanFM) that are totally unnecessary because you already have deepin-terminal, deepin-editor and a filemanager.
Lightdm is removed so you dont have a DM. you have to start the DE with "startx" in a black screen.
I uninstalled almost all the garbage he included (Spotify, Skype, and the LXDE apps) and after that the login from my user didn't work.
Avoid it. Don't even try a single "so called" distro from Arne Exton.
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Latest Reviews
Project: ExTiX
Version: 24.8
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-08-24
Votes: 1
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Version 21.9 was the last time I last took this for a spin. The impression I've come away with time is not dissimilar to the one following my previous outing. There's been time and effort put into this distro, yet I'm left wondering between v21.9 and this one what the intended direction of travel is. Previously I felt 21.9 was quite disappointing on several fronts, not least of which was the sense the dev had paid no attention to issues that really should have been addressed before it's release. v24.8 seems to be a continuation of the underlying philosophy which has thus far produced significant criticism and little improvement.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 24.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-01-14
Votes: 3
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Exton releases are not worth my time. It lacks in default applications and so much else. There are much better choices, currently MX23 and Mint 21.3. All with support, forums and groups for help. I don't see how any Exton releases make any list. ExTix is sad like the rest, thrown together and zero support. After 3 installs i gave up and moved on to my list of distros that i think will be around for a few years. The days of a one person distro are over. When things go wrong users can't wait for days .... weeks for the dev to read their email.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 23.4
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-04-07
Votes: 2
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ExTix was not worth my time to install, very poor OS. Out-of-the-box Extix Linux is bit lacking in default applications. The bundled application do not include any office packages such as LibreOffice. Games and multimedia players are sorely absent. One of my major disappointments with ExTix is its inability to have an always-on Internet connection. I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that the ISO live session does not automatically connect to the host computer’s LAN connection. There are so many better choices. Just Bad!
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 23.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-04-05
Votes: 1
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Sorry, but this "OS" still is extremely bad.
Many things doesn't works in Extix and I also don't see the SENSE of this distro, either.
It's also slow and sometimes confusing and totally messed up. No meat and no fish, as we say over here.
Distros like Xubuntu, Debian, MX Linux and many others are doing right and good, but not Extix.
Infact, this is the problem of a "one man show". Again: they are many BETTER distros out there!
I have tried it several times, but I always had been disappointed....a waste of time.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 22.12
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-12-19
Votes: 3
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My apology mate, I did try this in real PC. Installation is doing good but after the reboot it doesn't boot, it shows some kind of error. Further, after that error I switch to the bios configuration and sadly the usb stick with ventoy cannot be detected, it's quit unusual first time happen in my side. Keyring is looking for a password I yet we do not know the password. Nice work mate but over-all it needs to be tested and polish in this destro. See you in your next distro release mate, hopefully it would be more fine.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.11
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-04-16
Votes: 0
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I decided just to give the average rating for this system. It was fun to try on the disk. I haven't used Deepin in years so was kind of fun. It had a lot of what I needed and I decided to install it. It got to a point where it started counting. After several hours of counting, I stopped and tried again. It was over a week before I was able to get that USB port working again. I had to wipe the drive, unplug the battery again and again and again. Finally, I got something else installed. I have no idea what was going on. I was looking forward to giving this one a go but didn't happen.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 22.1
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-01-15
Votes: 0
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The overall rating of 4.2 IMO is way too high.
I just reviewed Siduction, which is also based on Debian, and it was great, I gave it a 9.
ExTiX, started complaining about Keyring passwords, as soon as I booted it live.
I don't have or use a keyring password.
The keyboard was so sensitive, I couldn't type on it.
Kept getting double and triple typing of each letter.
Once I got passed the keyring issue, which I had to blow out in ./local.
It still would not ever connect to my wifi.
This is a computer I use all the time on linux, Ubuntu, Mint, Siduction, Manjaro, & Fedora.
I recommend you start over and copy Siduction, which has a very good start on a Debian unstable Distro.
I'm sorry a wasted a couple of hours, downloading, reviewing, and beating on it.
It may be a good distro if you could ever get passed the obvious issues.
Sincerely,
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-03
Votes: 23
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This is a fast, stable and easy to use distro. System resources are good if you use KDE or LXQt, but it’s more resource intensive using Budgie and Deepin. I wish the developers would take out the Budgie and Deepin versions and focus on the KDE and LXQt versions which are more stable and speedier. I was curious to try Budgie and Deepin, but I couldn’t keep it as a desktop environment that I’d want to use again, both Budgie and Deepin are bloated, unstable, crash a lot and take up a lot of ram while idle and of course even more when any applications are running, I saw 2 GB at minimum for both while running a couple tabs in Firefox, which isn’t the browser’s fault, but how heavy Budgie and Deepin are as desktop environments.
With KDE and LXQt, they are very customizable, lightweight and have more full features applications so you can get done day to day work.
I recommend ExTiX, but only the KDE and LXQt desktop environment versions.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.9
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-09-30
Votes: 13
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light, nice, suitable for both low end pc and high end pc, we can make new .iso file , so we can create a new distro from it
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.9
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-09-15
Votes: 0
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There's little I can say that has not already been said by many about how incredibly dissapointing this distro is. I would just like to say to newcomers that this sham is in no way representative of what to expect from Linux distros in general, so please don't let this travesty put you off.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.9
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-09-14
Votes: 0
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This looked really promising, but its so buggy that it drove me mad!
If the dev spent some more time on this distro , Im sure it would become extremely popular, but at the moment theres too many hurdles to jump!
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.7
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-07-11
Votes: 4
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Lot of negative comments for earlier releases, but this was the new mini LXQT version I tried and as a live USB distro it's quite impressive. I normally turn to Antix when trying to resurrect really old hardware, but it's very overloaded with menu entries and can be a nightmare for Linux newbies.
This is much more basic and minimal in terms of software installed, but still retains a good look that is easy to navigate and only uses about 350 MB of RAM to boot into the desktop. Older hardware is often restricted to USB 2 which can be as slow as booting from optical media in a lot of cases, so I decided to install it on an old Phenom machine.
Oh dear! They've opted not to use the standard ubiquity installer and used some weird custom jobbie, that starts in a terminal with a warning not to close this till the install is finished. It took a while to get to the next part and I was beginning to think it had crashed it was taking that long. There was no option to use the entire disk but gparted was provided to make your own partition(s) I opted to install a bootloader but it didn't work. Luckily I'd made a mistake and the old OS (MX Linux) was still intact and I was able to update grub to include it in the menu.
Bottom line - as a live USB fine, as an installed distro, also pretty good if you can get past the archaic install process and get it to boot.
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-18
Votes: 0
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Extix 21.5 in VM (obviously)
No DM. Blank screen where i have to write startx.
No Internet connection . No easy way to setup the internet connection (Ethernet in a VM).
Refracta Installer fails.
Rating 1/10:
Advice: Use a common distro like Xubuntu, Linux Mint, KDE Neon...
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 20.12
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-01-06
Votes: 0
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ExTiX KDE 20.12. If I could rate this distro a negative 10, then I certainly would. Anbox apps will not launch in live session. Immediate kernel panic when trying to boot after installation. Had to go to advanced settings to boot to fallback kernel. Could not log in to the desktop, even when I chose to automatically log in. This project is an absolute disaster, if you even call it a project at all. It's more like a 3-year-old attempting to create a Linux distro based on Kubuntu. Anbox is a dead project anyway; not even Arch would install it. Don't even waste your time downloading the ISO. Just get Kubuntu instead. AVOID THIS ABOMINATION AT ALL COSTS!!!
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Project: ExTiX
Version: 21.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-01-04
Votes: 0
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Well as usual I wouldn't recommend you to use this "so called" distro. It just a a remaster of Deepin which a 10 year old would do better.
First of all you have 2 installers: the Deepin installer (that works fine) and Refracta.
Arne Exton adds proprietary software to the system (Spotify and Skype) and the usual LXDE applications (Lxterminal, leafpad and PCmanFM) that are totally unnecessary because you already have deepin-terminal, deepin-editor and a filemanager.
Lightdm is removed so you dont have a DM. you have to start the DE with "startx" in a black screen.
I uninstalled almost all the garbage he included (Spotify, Skype, and the LXDE apps) and after that the login from my user didn't work.
Avoid it. Don't even try a single "so called" distro from Arne Exton.
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