Version: rolling
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-08-08
Votes: 3
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I used Leap 15.1 and Tumbleweed and I had a number of glitches crop up, especially with Firefox. I tried GeckoLinux as a last resort (Gnome, Rolling) and now everything is good. It basically came with a lot of the stuff I would have added to OpenSUSE (Codecs, 32 bit drivers, etc). I obviously screwed this up when I did it myself, Geckolinux seems a little faster as well.
I'll be trying it on my laptop next.
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Version: 150
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-25
Votes: 2
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For the life of me, I've been trying to find another DE to boot on the computer with the GNOME leap 15 version of Gecko, just for variety and extra tools. Everything else is just a poor show on stability, and overall performance. I would like to see better access to installing a few more extensions in this distro, such as- places, and dash to panel, just to mix the environment up a little when in the mood. It even opens my Samsung 128Gb camera card formatted in Lumix camera to fat32, many other distros won't recognize Fat32 on that card (Debian seems to be the exception). I'm running an Intel core I5-6200u @2.3GHz *4, Intel HD graphics 520 (Skylake GT2) in a HP laptop. On the same machine I found the KDE Plasma- Leap version would get a bit locked up with multiple windows/ processes open, that might be a KDE thing though, as GNOME seems much faster and more stable (GNOME 3.26.2).
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Version: 150
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-28
Votes: 4
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I was using openSUSE Leap 15 for about 6 months without issues other than a slow boot. I then decided to give Tumbleweed a try, it also ran without issues, but the boot was even slower. So back to Leap I went... BUT this time I tried Gecko. I don't know if it's because it installed using EXT4 (without snapper) instead of BTRFS (and all the related moving parts) or because of Geckos tweaks to the system, but the boot up is now waaay faster. Even though I don't have the security of rollbacks anymore, openSUSE Leap is so stable, it really isn't needed. As a bonus, the fonts are crisper and there is much less bloat just as advertised. It was also much easier and faster to install & setup as Packman, CODECS and additional repositories were ready to go. I Just added some of my favorite apps, customized it to my liking and in less than an hour, I was all set. Great job by the developer and I highly recommend GeckoLinux to anyone who wants to give the lizard a try.
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Version: rolling
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-04-21
Votes: 2
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I have used openSUSE on and off for years. I am SUSE certified too.... YET...
Always broken. This version, too. I used to work for an OEM and used to deal with SUSE installers all the time as mostly things like sound would not work etc. People say it has MINOR issues, and I agree. SUSE/ Gecko needs a papercuts update.
little things....
1. brand new install the dual boot with windows 7 was not there, OK, I can fix that!
(have you read SUSE documentation?) After 2 hours I could not fix it.
I found Arch and other documentation and fixed it.(I come from grub days not Grub2)
2. brand new install did and update - now systemd-networkd is missing? OK I can fix that!
(man nmcli - bash: man: command not found - what the actual f?......)
3. Whisker menu icon missing after update - huh? Really? Can't you keep your needed stuff in one place?
4. Install git - oh million messages how it is going to break OpenSUSE? ... smh
UGH. I am not young any more and its nice when things 'just work'.
I cannot recommend that you use it as a daily driver UNLESS you are willing to faff for hours.
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Version: 150
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-28
Votes: 12
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Great Distro!
I've used OpenSuse for years and in general like it's features. This removes a lot of the bloat and is a great presentation. As others have mentioned the installer has a few minor issues, but were easily overcome without a great deal of trouble. I'm running the static version with KDE and XFCE. I normally use the XFCE desktop since it offers some of the virtual desktop features that Plasma did away with when they went to activities.
I'm not young anymore and really appreciate a disro that just works and does what it's supposed to do without creating a lot of headaches.
I highly recommend this distro.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
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Version: rolling
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-11
Votes: 12
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This is OpenSuse done right!
I absolutely love this distro. It's the only thing that has moved me from Kubuntu in 5 years.
Highly recommend. Didn't get a 10/10 because there is still a little polish needed, particularly for the installer. All up though, I'll be running Static (Leap) on my system critical stuff, and Rolling (Tumbleweed) for my laptop, dev machine and general playing.
Hassle free and beautiful distro.
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Version: rolling
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-11-04
Votes: 1
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Works well from a USB disc, Slight problems in initial set up. Used for browsing without using my main openSUSE LEAP 15 hard disc.
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Version: rolling
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-28
Votes: 2
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I use the Live version of KDE desktop rolling release Gecko on a USB Key. It works well.
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Version: 150
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-23
Votes: 2
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I use GeckoLinux with the KDE3.5 desktop.
GeckoLinux is better than opensuse 15 (I have both on separate partitions).
Only issue : the language installer to be run at the first boot does not make all the jobs, the sysconfig editor in Yast must be used to finally set the proper system language (system-->environment-->language-->RC_ALL)
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Version: 150
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-30
Votes: 68
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If you want OpenSUSE without the hassles this is your distro. Additional repos are installed by default so all your multimedia will work fine. Substitutes the Calamares installer for the SUSE installer which makes it far easier to install for all users. No major issues with the install, everything went fine including updating. If you dont like Yast you can install Discover instead which is much easier to use.
Hardware was seen fine except for the printer. Driver was installed but printer setting nor HP device manager could install the printer. I had to go into Yast, click on printer, then auto configuration and it installed in about twio minutes.
Fairly minimalist distro which I like as it allows you to install what you want rather than having to pull out a lot of apps.
Performance is excellent, very quick and memory usage was 432mb at GUI.
Wifi was seen fine, Broadcom driver installed by default. Works very well on older hardware given Im running a Dell E6400 laptop with E series dock.
KDE desktop is really nice with no graphical issues.
Recommend this distro to all users, give it a try.
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Version: 150
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-09-08
Votes: 0
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Installed, updated, ended in kernel panic with no WiFi connection and no mouse working. It is a shame. Unusable.
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Version: 150
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-06-20
Votes: 57
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I was a SuSE fan back in the KDE 3.x days. Sadly for a few years I just couldn't justify keeping it on my machines - font rendering being a part of it, and oddities with package mgmt., and other things... (hey, in college and early career I had time to tinker, but married now, with 5 kids, and a full-time coder I just want it to work out of the box for the most part). I use xfce on my oldish laptop and this season went between LinuxLite, MX Linux, and Xubuntu, and they were good, but saw GeckoLinux on DistroWatch and thought, what the heck... Definitely it's a keeper! It installed easily, looks GREAT by default, the repos are pre-configured and work, it's fast/snappy, zipper is great, YAST is easy, and overall it is just plain fun. Next up, try GeckoLinux KDE on my home server, and possibly my main PC (I'll admit, Kubuntu 18.04 is pretty nice). Good job on this release.
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Version: rolling
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-06-13
Votes: 22
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I have used many distributions, and have found many I liked, including MX-17 and Manjaro. However, the factor leading me to leave these and others has been the package manager.
Synaptic and Pacman/AUR have had problems eventually with every distribution based on these I tried. I found rpm based systems better, but Fedora and others also had problems.
I found OpenSuse with the YAST program manager. This is the best one I've tried in all my looking around, but OpenSuse is too big and heavy for my old Dell laptop.
Gecko Tumbleweed with XFCE has been stable, does not eat up a large amount of RAM to run,and is visually great looking. I have been able to do my work, update files, and get new software easily and without problems. I also added the Icewn window manager, which has lowered the RAM used during work even further. I have had no crashes, freezes, or any other problems.
While I have enjoyed trying and installing other distributions, this one allows me to work with my computer and get work done, surf the web, and enjoy linux.
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Version: rolling
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-06-11
Votes: 12
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I was never able to install OpenSuse for 2 reasons: 1) no USB live look first, 2) I needed Calamares installer. Gecko Linux solved both of these problems for my comfort level and Linux level of knowledge. The download was fast (1.1GB vs1.7Gb with others). The Install was the fastest and after installing several apps I need, the install used 4GB of SSD (normally 7GB with other distros). Finally, I have a Brother Printer. The drivers were installed just by electing to add a printer! No other distro has done that. All have required finding the drivers and installing them from a web site or through the app manager. So, for me, this was the smoothest experience I've have installing a Linux distro. Thank you to the devs for making this so that noobs can have access to it!
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Version: 423
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-04-14
Votes: 15
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This is the first exciting distro I've had on a machine in a long time.
It's OpenSuse, but tweaked throughout to optimize the experience and to allow the user to
just use it from one end to the other with only a few cosmetic things to change depending on tastes.
I always had troubles in Suse with fonts and networking and printers, etc. No more; it's all there.
Robust. Very nice looking. FFaaaaaasssstt! ;)
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Version: 423
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-03-29
Votes: 12
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I'd strongly recommend Gecko Linux to anyone who wants an out-of-the-box Linux experience, the callameres installer is very easy to use and ideal for someone who would like to duel boot with Winblows 10, by default everything is handled for you and when you boot up after install you will be greeted by grub and then you can choose to boot Gecko or Win.
The static version of Gecko is something I have never tested until now, its actually pretty damn good, it is very stable and so far very reliable.
I am a fan of OpenSUSE but on older hardware - namely my 2gb RAM slabtop, OpenSUSE likes to hog resources, so Gecko is a better option as it seems to require a lot less RAM.
I hope the dev reads these reviews, please fix/update your rolling release ISO's, due to how old they are updating from a fresh install will break the OS. I'd much rather use a rolling release distro.
Anyway, try Gecko Linux, its very good and very easy to use thanks to YaST2 and its convenience of having everything in one place.
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Version: 423
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-01-29
Votes: 10
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Gecko is the fastest XFCE I've ever used. It's as fast as any LXDE I've ever used, for that matter. Everything is just perfect and flawless. Installing/removing software couldn't be easier with Yast2, which isn't full of bugs like Debian/Ubuntu's Synaptic. The whole system is just smooth as can be. My days of distro-hopping are over.
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Version: 423
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-01-15
Votes: 1
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It's ok... Not great. I installed this OS 2 days ago and have had numerous issues. I installed a Firefox dark theme and half the websites I go to are all blacked out. Don't they TEST this stuff??
I tried changing it and then back to stock and no change on those sites,either. Still blacked out. There are several issues but I am now removing it from my desktop.
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Version: 423
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-01-13
Votes: 15
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So far I rate this equal to Mint. And totally portable.
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Version: 423
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-01-10
Votes: 8
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I'm quite fascinated that I've been able to install the XFCE version onto a tiny old 8gb (usb2) flash drive that I can take with me anywhere and, so far, plug into any computer and immediately operate my entire O/S just as if I were at home.
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Version: 423
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-01-06
Votes: 7
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My opinion.... IMHO -- OPENSUSE is the next or NEW UBUNTU. - Gecko - makes it drop dead simple. Its polished - and I don't have to search far and wide for stuff I want to install. Gecko is sublime.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-12-26
Votes: 3
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Of the various releases it is only the static beta that's quite good, There you can, if you want a calendar for example, install at least "orage". "Korganizer" is still not workable, even after the download and installation of a million support files.
Concerning the rolling releases, one has to scratch one's head what the password is (apparentiy "linux"). "Orage" cannot be installed and a notice came up advising me that something sinister is going on when I opened the software installer, something that could compromise my system :(
My experience was : The static (latest) release - yes, the others - no.......
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Version: 421.160511.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2017-12-02
Votes: 3
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The budgie version attracted me with its look. However, it was incredibly slow compared already with Leap 42.3. the slowest distro out of mote than 15, i tested in same conditions. Also, most of the right mouse button click options are gone.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-09-27
Votes: 3
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In my opinion the rolling release of GeckoLinux (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed) is currently the best GNU/Linux operating system available.
Everything just WORKS!
As of this date, the ISO disc is over six months old - but, if you follow the tips I mention, you should have not problems.
Install the system and reboot. Then, before doing anything else, do the following:
1. Allow Vendor Change by Removing Vendor Stickiness (Instructions here: < https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update > Go to bottom of page). 2. If Broadcom shows a conflict when updating, remove the two (2) Broadcom programs (the ones with the full name in them) by using Install/Update Programs. 3. Remove mesa-dri-nouveau by using Install/Update Programs. 4. Go into the Menu->System->YAST->System->Kernel Settings->Kernel Settings and change Global I/O Scheduler to show Completely Fair Queuing [cfq] and click OK.
Reboot again and only then update the system. (The first update will be large but if you have a fairly fast Internet connection, it should not take too much time).
Once this is all done, you'll have what it, as I said, the best GNU/Linux operating system currently available.
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Version: 421.160511.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-09-26
Votes: 1
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It is very useful and simple. ideal for alquel that starts in the open source world
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Version: 421.160511.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-09-23
Votes: 6
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Wanted stable OpenSuse xfce4 ... without all the elbow grease ... Gecko was just what I was looking for ...
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 7
Date: 2017-08-11
Votes: 5
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a great alternative if you want a 'barebone' tumbleweed without all the bloodshed required to get a normal tumbleweed 'ready' out of the box, and with minimal patterns/metapackages. it would be nicer if it had a builtin hardware autodetect to avoid installing unnecessary firmware we dont need. a certain unneeded firmware is locked with the linux kernel, although uninstalling through locking is easily done, it would be nice if it did this for us.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-06-12
Votes: 7
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Easily my favourite distro. Its OpenSUSE but for someone who wants no fuss on installation.
YaST is a blast. The DE's are just beautiful and work very well on rolling release. Packed with features/programmes.
Have not yet found any issues. Pretty sure Gecko will curb my distrohopping for a long time.
Keep up the greatness, Devs.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-06-10
Votes: 4
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Using LXQt is very enjoyable with Gecko, I installed the rolling release and found it to be very stable.
Installation is very easy and stuff just works!
If you are looking for an easy OpenSUSE experience and stability then Gecko is what you need.
Side note; yast2 is a little confusing but thats my fault as I have never used it before.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-06-01
Votes: 6
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Used Manjaro for about a year without any issues then both my laptop and desktop crashed due to a update issue on Manjaro....went distro hopping and saw GECKO rolling and decided to give it a spin...so far so good . I love the cinnamon desktop so that was a huge selling point for me and like Manjaro this is a rolling release that was also a huge plus. I've never used Opensuse before so this is a learning curve for me and so far I find it pretty straight forward. I don't know how others feel about ARCH but if your tired of crashes and bad updates and still want a rolling release I believe you have found a great one with Gecko.
PROS: (1) WAS EASY TO SET UP AND CUSTOMIZE....
(2) IS A ROLLING RELEASE
(3) NOT BASED ON ARCH
CONS: (1) DON'T LIKE HAVING TO ENTER A PASSWORD EVERY TIME I TURN MY COMPUTER ON. CAN'T FIND THE SETTING FOR AUTO LOGIN SO I DON'T HAVE TO TYPE THE PASSWORD IN EVERY TIME.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-05-12
Votes: 3
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I wanted to get away from upgrading but at the same time have the latest kernel plus have Cinnamon not on top of something else. Pretty much came down to Gecko or Arch and Gecko is less complicated.
Seems much faster than Fedora. I get the same security advantage with Firejail when used with AppArmor as I would with Ubuntu. I really enjoy all the options with YaST, still learning all that has to offer.
Cons? I couldn't get LUKS to configure which may have been user error on my part during install though I've had no issue on Fedora or Ubuntu - those are cookie cutter installers.
Bottom line - highly recommended.
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Version: 421.160511.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-23
Votes: 3
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This is the best of one Linux distribution.
Great automatic detection hardware and I have no issue about Gecko Linux.
I am impressive about this. So, my opinion about this distribution is for a review this:
1. Stable
2. Many flavor for Desktop Environment, I am using XFCE
3. Daily use
4. User Friendly, with many flavor of Desktop Environment, it easier for people want to try, leaning and adaptation for Linux
5. I have no problem about software packages or hardware
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-04-02
Votes: 6
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I am your typical distro hopper and been for the last 10 years.
Here's my take on Gecko.
I have using Gecko for two months now without any issues, rebooted once, didnt seem to make any difference, it still was fast.
It is simple to use and very quick.
Firefox starts and runs faster on Opensuse than other Linux distro's, not sure why but I am not complaining.
There are a lot of good Linux distro's available.
For now, I'm going to stick with Gecko.
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Version: Rolling-999.161218.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-02-20
Votes: 4
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Certain programs that I use are not in the 'standard' repository which means that I must install them (and their individual repositories) separately. This generally does not cause conflicts but it does cause some 'head-scratching' when choices must be made during updating. But, all in all, GeckoLinux is by far my favorite of the rolling release type of GNU/Linux operating system.
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Version: 421.160511.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-02-16
Votes: 5
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42.2 GNOME
This is what's needed for an (almost) perfect Linux install. Has a lot of extra drivers for instance Broadcom and printer drivers that so often is making problems. This is one of the best if not THE best one to try Linux without (drivers) issues :)
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