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Nitrux
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Reader supplied reviews for Nitrux
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4.1 from 22 review(s)
Version: fefc905b
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-04-29
Votes: 20
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It should have been 6 but they deserve a point more for painless quick installation and cause they have put up a systemd free OS for dummies but...
6 cause it's really for dummies and has too much to fix.
It's really astonishing for eyes but painfull to work with.
Clock has to be setup at every reboot so as at every reboot you have to put in again every time the hot-spot passphrase.
They got rid of dpkg and apt to make an immutable system... to me is too much immutable! :-P
I have to install the firmware for a dvb-T card, impossible and it seems impossible also to install something out of NX software application manager well... also to install application using NX application manager seems impossible, you click on the limited choice of programs but... nothing happens.
It has its own target, maybe the best for a kiosk but not sure suitable for me not used to OS's Window's style where you have to install 100MB to have a program which takes 10MB on a normal GNU/Linux system and has more than double memory requirements cause you have to load also more than twice the same library due to static packaging.
If they will do a usuable GNU/Linux which fits users' expectation I will give it a place on my hard disk.
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Version: fefc905b
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-02-03
Votes: 6
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This is a distro? It's more of a joke.
The manner this is assembled is very amateurish. It's like a kid who took apart his watch and tried to put it back together again.
Errors galore. One can write pages on each and all of them. It begins with booting errors. Plymouth didn't work. It kept having hiccups. Freezing temporarily, at times.
Live session looks nice in appearance. Does it work as supposed to? No. The package installer had scant little offerings. When trying to add another browser, it breaks.
Whatever contraption this is, avoid. At all cost. This is prob. the worst distro one has tried, of about 300 of them.
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Version: fefc905b
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-01-08
Votes: 1
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I've tried to install this on two laptops already. One works amazing and I love the look. Everything works. Even as an immutable OS, it still lets you customize a wide deal of things. It's a beautiful OS. This is on a Gigabyte Aero with RTX 1060 NVIDIA graphics.
On my second laptop, admittedly a ThinkPad from 2015 with NVIDIA legacy graphics, the installer won't even load. Even using alternative installer from USB won't even load to desktop. Plymouth fails to load every single time. Other distros recognize it as legacy graphics and move on to other drivers, but this one hangs on it every single time.
So if you're rocking any sort of legacy NVIDIA graphics, probably not for you right now, but faster computers go for it. You won't be disappointed.
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Version: fefc905b
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-12-17
Votes: 1
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I burned this to a USB drive using the app packaged with UZL-10.
I rebooted into the drive and selected the first boot option.
All was well until the message: ERROR: Plymouth failed to start, whereupon everything stopped.
This was the case with the next two boot options.
The fourth option, nomodeset, took it a bit further; all the way to starting UFW.
Then it went into what I think was a UFW set up cycle.
After 10 minutes and 4 cycles I gave up, rebooted into UZL-10 and formatted the USB stick
Yet another distro that fails at the first hurdle.
Perhaps it would be better to stick to older versions, presumably they work.
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Version: 20221101
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-05-22
Votes: 1
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Nice distro... sleek, beautifully designed with aesthetic lines. Responsive and ready to use. Only the NX software center offers a very limited .appimage packages. Very hard indeed to convert a deb ( the same file Debian uses and ironically on which it derives directly ) file to this distribution format I might try Bluestar Linux instead...boldly different but with an array of installable software right OOTB...Modicia is also a great OS...A personal choice because I like to cram the system with apps...
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Version: d5c7cdff
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-06
Votes: 2
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Nitrux 2.7.1
Nitrux does not try to copy other distributions. He is different. It is original and its own. The visual appeal of this desktop is exceptional. It stands above other distros when it comes to aesthetics and beauty. Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop built on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications. Nitrux also does not use systemd as its init system; instead, it uses OpenRC. I'm giving this distribution a 10 because I think it's underrated.
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Version: d5c7cdff
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-03-09
Votes: 4
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It looks good and has some interesting tweaks made on it , the terminal is called station and has no apt package manager installed, it has an app called NX Software center and an option to download an app image called APP outlet that supposedly helps you install from snap and flathub, if only that was the case, it does not work and I can't identify my package manager... Now visually it looks interesting, it has some apps in store, it doesn't come with the typical debian ''not in sudoers group" error which is always a good thing, installer was easy to navigate through, very few apps are preinstalled on the system, it will do the job for most people, firefox works, chromium does not in virtualbox. system is usable but kinda slow.I could not install neofetch sadly, I know it is based on debian rolling, but still it's quite unstable, try it in a VM if you want, but something like normal ubuntu, manjaro or even deepin os will be more stable for hardware install as of today.
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Version: 20221101
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 3
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Download link on the official website didn't work, so I had to use the Distrowatch torrent.
ISO file is version 20221102.
When booting the live environment in Virtualbox it stalls with the message "ERROR: plymouth failed to start".
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Version: d5c7cdff
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-04
Votes: 6
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Nitrux wont boot into it's live usb burned distro on 3 different computers I have. I tried burning ISO and DD methods both..............nothing. It boots to a menu and then when you press enter that menu turns black. I tried the other menu choices and it did the same thing............a black screen. I thought I got a corrupted download and downloaded again, same thing. The same condition was present in version 20221101 No other distro has ever done this with me. I've never before seen that bad of a failure rate before in a live bootable distro.
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Version: 20221101
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-11-06
Votes: 1
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I'd like to give an informed review for this distro, however, after down loading the iso and burning it to a usb for a live test upon rebooting I thought I had somehow borked my system as it took over 5 minutes to get the system to get to the bios splash screen... then another 5 minutes to get to grub. from there I was allowed to select the live os and after another 5 minutes of blank screen up popped 3 line statements, and it hung... after another 5 minutes waiting for AnYthing to happen.. I ctr+alt+del rebooted, pulled out the usb drive and promptly restarted my system in less that 1 minute from the forced reboot.. so, on that note, I can only say it's not for me
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Version: 20221001
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-10-02
Votes: 0
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Outdated GRUB, GTK and QT from ARCH.
its recent, but old.
Its a good looking distro and certainly give other distros a run in a desktop beauty contest. A lot of good work here. But, again, it doesn't move up forward in time, nor does anything that the old distro already offer. Thus its a replica.
Time for it to move us forward with the current Arch updates for screen app management if it wants true attention. New distros with old app screen services should not be a factor of resistance to getting us moving forward.
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Version: 20220831
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-09-26
Votes: 8
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Worst distro I've used, and I've been using Linux since about 1998. Giving it 3 stars for looks, but otherwise, steer clear unless you just want a very basic, almost functional machine.
Everything is buggy and it didn't pick up my Windows installation, so now I'm trying to get that back!
Also, it doesn't have the basics installed, and even though it is Debian based, it won't let you use apt. Makes you use this pkcon thing that just seems to be a deterrent to move over to AppImages.
It doesn't come with basic stuff, and took me forever to figure out how to get a terminal window. Stuff was constantly crashing on a 1 year old laptop. Also, zsh is installed out of the box, which is good, but it's not configured in any way, the prompt is literally nothing, and it was so much worse than using bash, even though I've used zsh on other distros and it has been amazing.
I installed Nitrux yesterday and am replacing it one day later. It's not even worth the time to try to get used to it.
It's not done!
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Version: 2022.02.28
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-03-24
Votes: 8
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Worst distro I've ever tried, literally it's a salad and spaghetti dish of Ubuntu, KUbuntu and Debian.
Starting from Calamares, that keeps crashing during installation process, with mixed languages interface.
If you get lucky to complete the installation after many tries, after starting up, the whole system is sluggish, Nitrux theme is so slow and kwin crashes repeatedly.
And, the disaster show up once the upgrade starts, the process never get completed, and repeatedly downloading the same packages with the same versions, it keeps switching between debian and ubuntu installation styles (console shell) in a weird way that i never seen before.
i wasted time and 3 Gigs on downloading this so-called distro.
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Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-02-16
Votes: 12
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Really beautiful distro with some rough edges. Arguably the best looking distro around and can certainly give Deepin a run for it's money in the looks dept. It's clear that a lot of love & work has gone into the theming & UI.
There are some rough edges for a novice user, for example:
- SDDM selecting a default destop which isn't actually the main desktop (it selected "Cask (Wayland)" which dev has said isn't ready for showtime yet instead of the "Plasma (X11)" desktop which is supposed to be the default).
- For me, updating the system caused the only browser (Firefox) to be removed and reinstalling wasn't straightforward (apt errored out and the software ctr had multiple AppImages with no clear differentiation, I ended up going for Flatpak version and the icon then stopped loading until I edited the desktop file).
- Latest release was initially missing some package which prevented WiFi from working (dev fixed it quickly).
- No option to encrypt install
- AppImages are fiddly and few: the software available as AppImages isn't as expansive as Snaps/Flatpak. The system nicely integrates any AppImages detected in your downloads folder but on several occasions I found the AppImages then wouldn't launch from either the main menu or latte-dock (using KRunner worked though).
All-in-all I would recommend Nitrux mainly for users who A.) want a really beautful UI and B.) are comfortable figuring out how to fix small issues themselves (and comfortable using the command line). While the issues I ran into were irritating I find the UI so lovely to use that I'm willing to noodle around figuring things out in orde to keep using it.
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Version: 2022.01.29
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-31
Votes: 9
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Nitrux apparently doesn't care for my 1yr old Dell Inspiron 3793. First, there were lots of flashes before the login screen appeared. This was followed by a brightly colored desktop with a non functioning top bar. (I use Manjaro Gnome and i3 without any issues at all, full time, and just wanted to take a look at something different.)
I got a notification that I was connected to my wifi, but without an internet signal. I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but Debian is done better than this by more than a few distros. I've been a GNU/Linux user since 2004, and at this point in my life, I don't want to spend time tweaking and fixing what should have been taken care of prior to a release. I can't give this distro more than a 1 rating, because at least with the hardware I use every day, it simply doesn't work.
I should add here that I used another USB flash drive a second time, and got exactly the same results, even after downloading the ISO a second time as well. I know some folks probably worked hard on this release, but this edition of Nitrux isn't ready for prime time. Other than that, it looks really nice, and I could be on another rant here if everything just worked.
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Version: 2022.01.29
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-30
Votes: 11
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tried minimal. got a top bar that does nothing, no root menu, no nothing. useless.
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Version: 2021.10.29
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-12-06
Votes: 0
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Yes, I went through this head-banging experience, trying the "minimal" 1.6 GB version first. I got no
usable desktop or menu, just a question: "Should I load the i3 display?" No, I expected a KDE Plasma
desktop or at least a menu. The larger file of 2.9 GB put on USB resulted in a desktop resembling a Gnome Shell but not very functional. Having at least ten years of experience with Ubuntu, I knew what to do, so I installed a file browser (Caja) and a few Internet browsers, plus the Foliate Epub reader just to make this usable. I don't have space or the desire to istall Nitrux, but I could make it work. A better question is, "Why should I?" Excellent review, Jesse; Thank you for your diligence. I am using my Dell Optiplex 9020,
with four cores, 3700Ghz and I've decided to stick with my Devuan 4, based on the now stable Debian Bullseye, instead of taking on this toy to play with. I recommend new converts to Linux use an official Ubuntu release or Debian or one of the many Distros based on either one of those. MX, Antix, Zorin, or Linux Lite I can recommend. These will all handle the users needs smoothly straight out of the box. Thanks again for the
great job you do.
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Version: 2021.10.29
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-11-01
Votes: 2
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I love the change from other distributions that are based on arch, debian, ubuntu, ect. For my usage Nutyx is a perfect example of how to do things right.
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Version: 2021.06.29
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-06-30
Votes: 4
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I have tried researching nitrux a few times, while a novel concept the constant lying of the distro kills me. for example they have no documentation except for blog posts. Additionally, Vmetal... The holy grail of emulation. there has been no talk sense 2019 and any mention of how to make it work(found a page on facebook that redirects to the main page and nothing about vmetal) has been scrubbed. I wholeheartidly dont reccomend this distro as it is very manipulative. They do the BTRFS and appimage idea is great. everything else is extremely sketch
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Version: 2021.06.29
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-30
Votes: 8
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Nitrux is the Linux distro of the future... or from one possible future. Everything you've heard of, regarding latest Linux technologies and trends, is there: Wayland, containerized apps (through AppImage and flatpak), crossplatform desktop applications (through MauiKit (not to be confused with the similarly albeit unrelated .NET MAUI)), zsh by default, etc. The design and user interface of the modified-KDE desktop is on a completely different league that anything you've seen, with only late Unity and Budgie coming close in terms of integration, efficiency, elegance and intuitiveness.
That being said, it is simply too unstable to be usable for any real work. Even something as simple as a apt update upgrade will, more often than not, send your working system through the toilet. Wayland is a mess to configure: it took me more than an hour, and a lot of digging on obscure Reddit threads, to configure something as fundamental as tap-to-click on the laptop I tested it on (though this is fault of Wayland and not so much of Nitrux itself).
If you want to glimpse the future, or one possible future, of Linux in the desktop, try it by all means, I cannot recommend it hard enough for that purpose, and evaluate it within such context; but do not try to use it as a daily driver. Some suggestions if you do decide to give it a shot:
- I cannot speak of hardware recognition, at least not regarding proprietary stuff such as NVIDIA, though I must say my wireless got recognized without problems (something MX Linux struggled a bit with)
- Do not attempt to perform a system update/upgrade...
Other than that, everything is fine. The system is fast and responsive, even in the 13 y.o. Core 2, 4gig ram, laptop I'm trying it on. Take it as a proof of concept, to toy around newer trends, not for critical stuff, and everything will be fine.
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Version: 2021.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-10
Votes: 40
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Interesting distribution, because Vmetal works and with very good performance, but it doesn't work with hybrid cards for laptops, which is my case. Very good performance, but I don't like KDE Plasma, I prefer Cinnamon or Gnome. It would be great if Vmetal works like Parallels on macOS because many people like me need to provide support for clients or work with platforms that don't work very well in Wine. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a Desktop and needs Windows running parallel to linux in real time for several applications including games without having to restart in a dual boot.
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Version: 2021.01.28
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-02-23
Votes: 3
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Worst install on any existing Linux distro. I paid for the privilege for the first editions, Unorthodox and overly complicated if you could even get it installed. Decided to give the new free version a spin. Just another sad adoption of this and that borrowed from other distros with the same confusing desktop experience.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Nitrux
Version: fefc905b
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-04-29
Votes: 20
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It should have been 6 but they deserve a point more for painless quick installation and cause they have put up a systemd free OS for dummies but...
6 cause it's really for dummies and has too much to fix.
It's really astonishing for eyes but painfull to work with.
Clock has to be setup at every reboot so as at every reboot you have to put in again every time the hot-spot passphrase.
They got rid of dpkg and apt to make an immutable system... to me is too much immutable! :-P
I have to install the firmware for a dvb-T card, impossible and it seems impossible also to install something out of NX software application manager well... also to install application using NX application manager seems impossible, you click on the limited choice of programs but... nothing happens.
It has its own target, maybe the best for a kiosk but not sure suitable for me not used to OS's Window's style where you have to install 100MB to have a program which takes 10MB on a normal GNU/Linux system and has more than double memory requirements cause you have to load also more than twice the same library due to static packaging.
If they will do a usuable GNU/Linux which fits users' expectation I will give it a place on my hard disk.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: fefc905b
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-02-03
Votes: 6
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This is a distro? It's more of a joke.
The manner this is assembled is very amateurish. It's like a kid who took apart his watch and tried to put it back together again.
Errors galore. One can write pages on each and all of them. It begins with booting errors. Plymouth didn't work. It kept having hiccups. Freezing temporarily, at times.
Live session looks nice in appearance. Does it work as supposed to? No. The package installer had scant little offerings. When trying to add another browser, it breaks.
Whatever contraption this is, avoid. At all cost. This is prob. the worst distro one has tried, of about 300 of them.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: fefc905b
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-01-08
Votes: 1
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I've tried to install this on two laptops already. One works amazing and I love the look. Everything works. Even as an immutable OS, it still lets you customize a wide deal of things. It's a beautiful OS. This is on a Gigabyte Aero with RTX 1060 NVIDIA graphics.
On my second laptop, admittedly a ThinkPad from 2015 with NVIDIA legacy graphics, the installer won't even load. Even using alternative installer from USB won't even load to desktop. Plymouth fails to load every single time. Other distros recognize it as legacy graphics and move on to other drivers, but this one hangs on it every single time.
So if you're rocking any sort of legacy NVIDIA graphics, probably not for you right now, but faster computers go for it. You won't be disappointed.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: fefc905b
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-12-17
Votes: 1
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I burned this to a USB drive using the app packaged with UZL-10.
I rebooted into the drive and selected the first boot option.
All was well until the message: ERROR: Plymouth failed to start, whereupon everything stopped.
This was the case with the next two boot options.
The fourth option, nomodeset, took it a bit further; all the way to starting UFW.
Then it went into what I think was a UFW set up cycle.
After 10 minutes and 4 cycles I gave up, rebooted into UZL-10 and formatted the USB stick
Yet another distro that fails at the first hurdle.
Perhaps it would be better to stick to older versions, presumably they work.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 20221101
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-05-22
Votes: 1
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Nice distro... sleek, beautifully designed with aesthetic lines. Responsive and ready to use. Only the NX software center offers a very limited .appimage packages. Very hard indeed to convert a deb ( the same file Debian uses and ironically on which it derives directly ) file to this distribution format I might try Bluestar Linux instead...boldly different but with an array of installable software right OOTB...Modicia is also a great OS...A personal choice because I like to cram the system with apps...
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Project: Nitrux
Version: d5c7cdff
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-06
Votes: 2
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Nitrux 2.7.1
Nitrux does not try to copy other distributions. He is different. It is original and its own. The visual appeal of this desktop is exceptional. It stands above other distros when it comes to aesthetics and beauty. Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop built on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications. Nitrux also does not use systemd as its init system; instead, it uses OpenRC. I'm giving this distribution a 10 because I think it's underrated.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: d5c7cdff
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-03-09
Votes: 4
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It looks good and has some interesting tweaks made on it , the terminal is called station and has no apt package manager installed, it has an app called NX Software center and an option to download an app image called APP outlet that supposedly helps you install from snap and flathub, if only that was the case, it does not work and I can't identify my package manager... Now visually it looks interesting, it has some apps in store, it doesn't come with the typical debian ''not in sudoers group" error which is always a good thing, installer was easy to navigate through, very few apps are preinstalled on the system, it will do the job for most people, firefox works, chromium does not in virtualbox. system is usable but kinda slow.I could not install neofetch sadly, I know it is based on debian rolling, but still it's quite unstable, try it in a VM if you want, but something like normal ubuntu, manjaro or even deepin os will be more stable for hardware install as of today.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 20221101
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 3
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Download link on the official website didn't work, so I had to use the Distrowatch torrent.
ISO file is version 20221102.
When booting the live environment in Virtualbox it stalls with the message "ERROR: plymouth failed to start".
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Project: Nitrux
Version: d5c7cdff
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-04
Votes: 6
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Nitrux wont boot into it's live usb burned distro on 3 different computers I have. I tried burning ISO and DD methods both..............nothing. It boots to a menu and then when you press enter that menu turns black. I tried the other menu choices and it did the same thing............a black screen. I thought I got a corrupted download and downloaded again, same thing. The same condition was present in version 20221101 No other distro has ever done this with me. I've never before seen that bad of a failure rate before in a live bootable distro.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 20221101
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-11-06
Votes: 1
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I'd like to give an informed review for this distro, however, after down loading the iso and burning it to a usb for a live test upon rebooting I thought I had somehow borked my system as it took over 5 minutes to get the system to get to the bios splash screen... then another 5 minutes to get to grub. from there I was allowed to select the live os and after another 5 minutes of blank screen up popped 3 line statements, and it hung... after another 5 minutes waiting for AnYthing to happen.. I ctr+alt+del rebooted, pulled out the usb drive and promptly restarted my system in less that 1 minute from the forced reboot.. so, on that note, I can only say it's not for me
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 20221001
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-10-02
Votes: 0
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Outdated GRUB, GTK and QT from ARCH.
its recent, but old.
Its a good looking distro and certainly give other distros a run in a desktop beauty contest. A lot of good work here. But, again, it doesn't move up forward in time, nor does anything that the old distro already offer. Thus its a replica.
Time for it to move us forward with the current Arch updates for screen app management if it wants true attention. New distros with old app screen services should not be a factor of resistance to getting us moving forward.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 20220831
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-09-26
Votes: 8
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Worst distro I've used, and I've been using Linux since about 1998. Giving it 3 stars for looks, but otherwise, steer clear unless you just want a very basic, almost functional machine.
Everything is buggy and it didn't pick up my Windows installation, so now I'm trying to get that back!
Also, it doesn't have the basics installed, and even though it is Debian based, it won't let you use apt. Makes you use this pkcon thing that just seems to be a deterrent to move over to AppImages.
It doesn't come with basic stuff, and took me forever to figure out how to get a terminal window. Stuff was constantly crashing on a 1 year old laptop. Also, zsh is installed out of the box, which is good, but it's not configured in any way, the prompt is literally nothing, and it was so much worse than using bash, even though I've used zsh on other distros and it has been amazing.
I installed Nitrux yesterday and am replacing it one day later. It's not even worth the time to try to get used to it.
It's not done!
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2022.02.28
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-03-24
Votes: 8
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Worst distro I've ever tried, literally it's a salad and spaghetti dish of Ubuntu, KUbuntu and Debian.
Starting from Calamares, that keeps crashing during installation process, with mixed languages interface.
If you get lucky to complete the installation after many tries, after starting up, the whole system is sluggish, Nitrux theme is so slow and kwin crashes repeatedly.
And, the disaster show up once the upgrade starts, the process never get completed, and repeatedly downloading the same packages with the same versions, it keeps switching between debian and ubuntu installation styles (console shell) in a weird way that i never seen before.
i wasted time and 3 Gigs on downloading this so-called distro.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-02-16
Votes: 12
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Really beautiful distro with some rough edges. Arguably the best looking distro around and can certainly give Deepin a run for it's money in the looks dept. It's clear that a lot of love & work has gone into the theming & UI.
There are some rough edges for a novice user, for example:
- SDDM selecting a default destop which isn't actually the main desktop (it selected "Cask (Wayland)" which dev has said isn't ready for showtime yet instead of the "Plasma (X11)" desktop which is supposed to be the default).
- For me, updating the system caused the only browser (Firefox) to be removed and reinstalling wasn't straightforward (apt errored out and the software ctr had multiple AppImages with no clear differentiation, I ended up going for Flatpak version and the icon then stopped loading until I edited the desktop file).
- Latest release was initially missing some package which prevented WiFi from working (dev fixed it quickly).
- No option to encrypt install
- AppImages are fiddly and few: the software available as AppImages isn't as expansive as Snaps/Flatpak. The system nicely integrates any AppImages detected in your downloads folder but on several occasions I found the AppImages then wouldn't launch from either the main menu or latte-dock (using KRunner worked though).
All-in-all I would recommend Nitrux mainly for users who A.) want a really beautful UI and B.) are comfortable figuring out how to fix small issues themselves (and comfortable using the command line). While the issues I ran into were irritating I find the UI so lovely to use that I'm willing to noodle around figuring things out in orde to keep using it.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2022.01.29
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-31
Votes: 9
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Nitrux apparently doesn't care for my 1yr old Dell Inspiron 3793. First, there were lots of flashes before the login screen appeared. This was followed by a brightly colored desktop with a non functioning top bar. (I use Manjaro Gnome and i3 without any issues at all, full time, and just wanted to take a look at something different.)
I got a notification that I was connected to my wifi, but without an internet signal. I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but Debian is done better than this by more than a few distros. I've been a GNU/Linux user since 2004, and at this point in my life, I don't want to spend time tweaking and fixing what should have been taken care of prior to a release. I can't give this distro more than a 1 rating, because at least with the hardware I use every day, it simply doesn't work.
I should add here that I used another USB flash drive a second time, and got exactly the same results, even after downloading the ISO a second time as well. I know some folks probably worked hard on this release, but this edition of Nitrux isn't ready for prime time. Other than that, it looks really nice, and I could be on another rant here if everything just worked.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2022.01.29
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-30
Votes: 11
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tried minimal. got a top bar that does nothing, no root menu, no nothing. useless.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2021.10.29
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-12-06
Votes: 0
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Yes, I went through this head-banging experience, trying the "minimal" 1.6 GB version first. I got no
usable desktop or menu, just a question: "Should I load the i3 display?" No, I expected a KDE Plasma
desktop or at least a menu. The larger file of 2.9 GB put on USB resulted in a desktop resembling a Gnome Shell but not very functional. Having at least ten years of experience with Ubuntu, I knew what to do, so I installed a file browser (Caja) and a few Internet browsers, plus the Foliate Epub reader just to make this usable. I don't have space or the desire to istall Nitrux, but I could make it work. A better question is, "Why should I?" Excellent review, Jesse; Thank you for your diligence. I am using my Dell Optiplex 9020,
with four cores, 3700Ghz and I've decided to stick with my Devuan 4, based on the now stable Debian Bullseye, instead of taking on this toy to play with. I recommend new converts to Linux use an official Ubuntu release or Debian or one of the many Distros based on either one of those. MX, Antix, Zorin, or Linux Lite I can recommend. These will all handle the users needs smoothly straight out of the box. Thanks again for the
great job you do.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2021.10.29
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-11-01
Votes: 2
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I love the change from other distributions that are based on arch, debian, ubuntu, ect. For my usage Nutyx is a perfect example of how to do things right.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2021.06.29
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-30
Votes: 8
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Nitrux is the Linux distro of the future... or from one possible future. Everything you've heard of, regarding latest Linux technologies and trends, is there: Wayland, containerized apps (through AppImage and flatpak), crossplatform desktop applications (through MauiKit (not to be confused with the similarly albeit unrelated .NET MAUI)), zsh by default, etc. The design and user interface of the modified-KDE desktop is on a completely different league that anything you've seen, with only late Unity and Budgie coming close in terms of integration, efficiency, elegance and intuitiveness.
That being said, it is simply too unstable to be usable for any real work. Even something as simple as a apt update upgrade will, more often than not, send your working system through the toilet. Wayland is a mess to configure: it took me more than an hour, and a lot of digging on obscure Reddit threads, to configure something as fundamental as tap-to-click on the laptop I tested it on (though this is fault of Wayland and not so much of Nitrux itself).
If you want to glimpse the future, or one possible future, of Linux in the desktop, try it by all means, I cannot recommend it hard enough for that purpose, and evaluate it within such context; but do not try to use it as a daily driver. Some suggestions if you do decide to give it a shot:
- I cannot speak of hardware recognition, at least not regarding proprietary stuff such as NVIDIA, though I must say my wireless got recognized without problems (something MX Linux struggled a bit with)
- Do not attempt to perform a system update/upgrade...
Other than that, everything is fine. The system is fast and responsive, even in the 13 y.o. Core 2, 4gig ram, laptop I'm trying it on. Take it as a proof of concept, to toy around newer trends, not for critical stuff, and everything will be fine.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2021.06.29
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-06-30
Votes: 4
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I have tried researching nitrux a few times, while a novel concept the constant lying of the distro kills me. for example they have no documentation except for blog posts. Additionally, Vmetal... The holy grail of emulation. there has been no talk sense 2019 and any mention of how to make it work(found a page on facebook that redirects to the main page and nothing about vmetal) has been scrubbed. I wholeheartidly dont reccomend this distro as it is very manipulative. They do the BTRFS and appimage idea is great. everything else is extremely sketch
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2021.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-10
Votes: 40
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Interesting distribution, because Vmetal works and with very good performance, but it doesn't work with hybrid cards for laptops, which is my case. Very good performance, but I don't like KDE Plasma, I prefer Cinnamon or Gnome. It would be great if Vmetal works like Parallels on macOS because many people like me need to provide support for clients or work with platforms that don't work very well in Wine. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a Desktop and needs Windows running parallel to linux in real time for several applications including games without having to restart in a dual boot.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 2021.01.28
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-02-23
Votes: 3
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Worst install on any existing Linux distro. I paid for the privilege for the first editions, Unorthodox and overly complicated if you could even get it installed. Decided to give the new free version a spin. Just another sad adoption of this and that borrowed from other distros with the same confusing desktop experience.
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