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Average rating
8.9 from 10 review(s)
Version: 8.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-27
Votes: 3
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Freespire does the one thing all OS should aSPIRE to do: get the ... out of the way
The user should not really notice the OS, except to say, good job OS.
IDK what freespire (perhaps benefiting from the professional version, Linspire, there being a pro version; i think it's just support though, but don't quote me; the idea is that they get paid to make Linspire work, and they give you the same stuff for free but without the support, ie help from actual ppl in real time, etc.)
The KDE is good, i got it doing what i want, mostly (left bar, button bottom, tray top, tasks middle, but it won't do half transparency when mouse leaves, like XFCE, so I'll be switching to xfce, or adding it in). I'm even getting used to the single click, like it more. It's odd though, not always single click. I think it's kind of a apple/mac thing, the single click, so i don't mind not using it. Probably just use xfce and not look back.
Been a couple of weeks with this so far and it's great. Just no hiccups, no headaches, no hassle. Why should it be a hassle? lol
So, two doors, one says "hella big hassle", the other door says "freespire".
lol
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to be fair, ubuntu works well; this is not ubuntu exactly. IDK what 'spyware' might be embedded in it, as someone said, but I'm not finding anything to complain about, at all. Except for that taskbar transparency thing, lol. Also, the login manager (as when coming out of sleep/standby) is a bit ugly and irritating, have to punch keyboard and whack mouse to get it to show password input field.
I did install "ubuntustudio-installer" and all that, which is why i decided on an ubuntu base. Works good.
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Version: 8.0.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-03
Votes: 2
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An excellent switch from Gnome to KDE in 8.2 due to user feedback. Now based on Kubuntu but with SNAP disabled by default. Yes there are plenty of other Ubuntu clones around but each will suit a different set of users depending on the software mix. For my needs I'm pleased it includes Calligra Office, Flatpak and Balena Etcher. It's also faster than most I've installed with a lower resource usage rate. I just installed the MX Conky Manager to have access to their range of themes. Nice logo and default wallpaper.
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Version: 8.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-12-20
Votes: 2
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Another uninspired bland clone of Ubuntu. Not really much to rave on at all about it. It used to be a good Linux distro many years back when the original developers made it an independent distro and not based on anything and including custom tools to make it very simple and easy to use. It was back in the days of Xandros and such and when more Linux distros were more difficulty to use and heavily relied on the terminal. But all of that image of a great distro has faded away when another company bought Freespire and Linspire and made it another bloated, slow and buggy Ubuntu clone. The real only difference here is themes, some different applications and different wallpapers. It baffles me why there are so many Ubuntu clones that keep its spyware and just modify the look and feel.
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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-14
Votes: 0
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I have used a lot of distributions from fixed to rolling. I have to say this distro is one of the best. Very easy for a beginner coming from Windows environment. An experienced user will also appreciate the smooth operation of XFCE DE.
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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-13
Votes: 0
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Nice distro- somewhere between Xubuntu and Peppermint. Actually better XFCE rendering than Xubuntu.
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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-13
Votes: 0
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Really nice distro, using Google apps which makes for a different experience. Lots of apps, easy to install and XFCE is a great DE.
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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-12
Votes: 1
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Great and easy to use distro. Drag and drop web apps to the panel. Ice is included but you can create your own web apps through the menu editor.
Nice to see a distro different from the pack. No Firefox or Thunderbird but Chrome and the Google apps preinstalled. Based on Debian and Ubuntu so all the programs are available. The only distro which properly recognized my two HP printers without any action on my part: they were both preinstalled.
If you hate Google, you will not be pleased. If you want a different linux experience, you will be pleased.
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Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-08
Votes: 0
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Excellent distro, that's not only beautiful but the with the inclusion of Google apps, makes it an all around distro for daily use. Memory usage was only 448mb and the install was fast an easy. Make sure to enable third party hardware support during install. Had no issues with printers or wifi.
It doesn't include codecs, so be sure to install the Ubuntu restricted extras to get them. The only glitch I ran into was, there's no package manager available other than the app store. They have Synaptic installed but there's no icon and after searching for the app and running it, it denies authentication. I ended up installing Muon package manager to test, and it worked. So I used it to install Synaptic, the icon showed up and it ran just fine. You could also try to reinstall Synaptic with the app store but I chose not to do that. I added LibreOffice and a few other apps and was ready to go. If you are regularly using Google apps you will love this distro but its a very balanced distro.
Being based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS you have a huge amount of apps to chose from as well as access to Snap apps. Give this distro a try as XFCE has improved greatly and is easy to use.
Many choices for appearance and the ability to customize the desktop. I used the Arc Dark theme as its a lot easier on the eyes than the default Arc.
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Version: 7.7
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-13
Votes: 5
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To be honest, it´s not a bad distro at all. It works, it has XFCE, and looks nice, and has a good selection of software.
The only thing it´s that Xubuntu exist, and if you want more with XFCE, you have Mint, and MX, and Voyager and... You know, there is nothing really special about Freespire, just anohter Ubuntu based distro with XFCE, it´s like an "alternative" version of Xubuntu.
But, hey, it works well, has a nice selection of wallpapers, nice icons and it´s ideal for that poor PC that you have in the garage.
Not bad at all.
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Version: 6.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-19
Votes: 4
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Using 7.1 at the moment.
All-in-all, it's a quite well put together bundle. Everything works out of the box, XFCE window manager is nicely configured (their own look/theme) and default software installed does the job for most tasks which an average user might throw at it. Excellent little distro and a pleasure to use.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Freespire
Version: 8.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-27
Votes: 3
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Freespire does the one thing all OS should aSPIRE to do: get the ... out of the way
The user should not really notice the OS, except to say, good job OS.
IDK what freespire (perhaps benefiting from the professional version, Linspire, there being a pro version; i think it's just support though, but don't quote me; the idea is that they get paid to make Linspire work, and they give you the same stuff for free but without the support, ie help from actual ppl in real time, etc.)
The KDE is good, i got it doing what i want, mostly (left bar, button bottom, tray top, tasks middle, but it won't do half transparency when mouse leaves, like XFCE, so I'll be switching to xfce, or adding it in). I'm even getting used to the single click, like it more. It's odd though, not always single click. I think it's kind of a apple/mac thing, the single click, so i don't mind not using it. Probably just use xfce and not look back.
Been a couple of weeks with this so far and it's great. Just no hiccups, no headaches, no hassle. Why should it be a hassle? lol
So, two doors, one says "hella big hassle", the other door says "freespire".
lol
.
to be fair, ubuntu works well; this is not ubuntu exactly. IDK what 'spyware' might be embedded in it, as someone said, but I'm not finding anything to complain about, at all. Except for that taskbar transparency thing, lol. Also, the login manager (as when coming out of sleep/standby) is a bit ugly and irritating, have to punch keyboard and whack mouse to get it to show password input field.
I did install "ubuntustudio-installer" and all that, which is why i decided on an ubuntu base. Works good.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-03
Votes: 2
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An excellent switch from Gnome to KDE in 8.2 due to user feedback. Now based on Kubuntu but with SNAP disabled by default. Yes there are plenty of other Ubuntu clones around but each will suit a different set of users depending on the software mix. For my needs I'm pleased it includes Calligra Office, Flatpak and Balena Etcher. It's also faster than most I've installed with a lower resource usage rate. I just installed the MX Conky Manager to have access to their range of themes. Nice logo and default wallpaper.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-12-20
Votes: 2
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Another uninspired bland clone of Ubuntu. Not really much to rave on at all about it. It used to be a good Linux distro many years back when the original developers made it an independent distro and not based on anything and including custom tools to make it very simple and easy to use. It was back in the days of Xandros and such and when more Linux distros were more difficulty to use and heavily relied on the terminal. But all of that image of a great distro has faded away when another company bought Freespire and Linspire and made it another bloated, slow and buggy Ubuntu clone. The real only difference here is themes, some different applications and different wallpapers. It baffles me why there are so many Ubuntu clones that keep its spyware and just modify the look and feel.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-14
Votes: 0
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I have used a lot of distributions from fixed to rolling. I have to say this distro is one of the best. Very easy for a beginner coming from Windows environment. An experienced user will also appreciate the smooth operation of XFCE DE.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-13
Votes: 0
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Really nice distro, using Google apps which makes for a different experience. Lots of apps, easy to install and XFCE is a great DE.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-13
Votes: 0
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Nice distro- somewhere between Xubuntu and Peppermint. Actually better XFCE rendering than Xubuntu.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-12
Votes: 1
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Great and easy to use distro. Drag and drop web apps to the panel. Ice is included but you can create your own web apps through the menu editor.
Nice to see a distro different from the pack. No Firefox or Thunderbird but Chrome and the Google apps preinstalled. Based on Debian and Ubuntu so all the programs are available. The only distro which properly recognized my two HP printers without any action on my part: they were both preinstalled.
If you hate Google, you will not be pleased. If you want a different linux experience, you will be pleased.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-08
Votes: 0
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Excellent distro, that's not only beautiful but the with the inclusion of Google apps, makes it an all around distro for daily use. Memory usage was only 448mb and the install was fast an easy. Make sure to enable third party hardware support during install. Had no issues with printers or wifi.
It doesn't include codecs, so be sure to install the Ubuntu restricted extras to get them. The only glitch I ran into was, there's no package manager available other than the app store. They have Synaptic installed but there's no icon and after searching for the app and running it, it denies authentication. I ended up installing Muon package manager to test, and it worked. So I used it to install Synaptic, the icon showed up and it ran just fine. You could also try to reinstall Synaptic with the app store but I chose not to do that. I added LibreOffice and a few other apps and was ready to go. If you are regularly using Google apps you will love this distro but its a very balanced distro.
Being based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS you have a huge amount of apps to chose from as well as access to Snap apps. Give this distro a try as XFCE has improved greatly and is easy to use.
Many choices for appearance and the ability to customize the desktop. I used the Arc Dark theme as its a lot easier on the eyes than the default Arc.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 7.7
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-13
Votes: 5
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To be honest, it´s not a bad distro at all. It works, it has XFCE, and looks nice, and has a good selection of software.
The only thing it´s that Xubuntu exist, and if you want more with XFCE, you have Mint, and MX, and Voyager and... You know, there is nothing really special about Freespire, just anohter Ubuntu based distro with XFCE, it´s like an "alternative" version of Xubuntu.
But, hey, it works well, has a nice selection of wallpapers, nice icons and it´s ideal for that poor PC that you have in the garage.
Not bad at all.
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Project: Freespire
Version: 6.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-19
Votes: 4
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Using 7.1 at the moment.
All-in-all, it's a quite well put together bundle. Everything works out of the box, XFCE window manager is nicely configured (their own look/theme) and default software installed does the job for most tasks which an average user might throw at it. Excellent little distro and a pleasure to use.
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