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Reader supplied reviews for T2 Linux SDE
Average rating
6.5 from 8 review(s)
Version: 25.10
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-10-11
Votes: 2
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This automatic build and Linux distribution setup is pretty interesting, but the developer seems super proud of all the esoteric jargon in the installer and the documentation. The installer is a lot like the ones for Slackware or FreeBSD, but those aren't as confusing as T2 SDK to get through.
The documentation has issues too, since it doesn’t have a clear starting point to guide users to what they really care about: setting up the encrypted system and getting the wireless network going. I think the real advantage of this setup is in target compilation and cross-compilation, but honestly, I can handle those tasks manually without any hassle.
If they improved the installer and the documentation, they could definitely attract more users.
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Version: 25.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-31
Votes: 0
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It is a good distro especially for developers, may be not for new comers and daily usage for simple work. I appreciate a lot what the developers(s) intended to do, and the work that has been put into this distro. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, please continue your remarkable work. I understand that the number of developers working on the project is limited, hence, there may be some issues creating a user friendly installation tools, but I think it is not the purpose of the project. So, if you want to learn and get into a bit deeper into linux environment then it will be good for you (similar to slackware). I highly recommend if you are a serious developer. Thanks again for creating such a project.
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Version: 25.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-04-14
Votes: 7
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It is a good distro especially for developers, may be not for new comers and daily usage for simple work. I appreciate a lot what the developers(s) intended to do, and the work that has been put into this distro. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, please continue your remarkable work. I understand that the number of developers working on the project is limited, hence, there may be some issues creating a user friendly installation tools, but I think it is not the purpose of the project. So, if you want to learn and get into a bit deeper into linux environment then it will be good for you (similar to slackware). I highly recommend if you are a serious developer. Thanks again for creating such a project.
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Version: 24.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-09
Votes: 12
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Excellent work!
Installer is very familiar for Slackware users like me
I also like the philosophy of project.
I can say that T2_sde Its the a distro (like Slackware) that attract me so much from the first day of use!
After 20 years as Linux user, a new interesting Linux experience appears for me. Very interesting!
I will come back when I have installation in bare-metal as for now only virtual installation I have.
In any case you have my respect!
It will be interesting for me to test how local AI`s (running in CPU+RAM , GPU)reacts with this system in bare metal installation
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Version: 24.5
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-05-13
Votes: 0
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Hard to install and no live preview (No install mode), confusing It should be an easy-to-use installation that suits our age and should not alienate people. If there is user feedback and the developer cares about them, then the project can go to good places.Even in the last evaluation and comment on this site, I read about the problem experienced during installation. And similar problems still exist. Maybe it drives people to this situation because it has a complicated installation style. I wish you good luck and hope we get a great distro. What I said above are important things. should be taken into consideration.
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Version: 22.6
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-07-17
Votes: 1
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I failed to create a bootable system in vmware workstation 16 on an intel 7th generation laptop, neither runlevel 2 nor runlevel 5 provided a login prompt. Stuck at "previous runlevel: n, new runlevel 5", but just sits there for 15 minutes now on a fast laptop with fast ssd.
The general idea seems nice to me, but more bugs than i expect.
User interface sometimes confusing, what needs to be done to proceed.
Will try 21.7 next but if it doesnot work in vmware workstation i will not try anything else.
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Version: 21.7
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-07-11
Votes: 6
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The system is actually pretty nice, you can choose to install it by prebuilt ISOs with default settings or compile by yourself all the settings. This second passage can be made with a custom lua+bash script that simplify the operation.
You can choose different init system, package list and various optimization, also is possible to edit and customize all the tools before finalazing a installation ISO.
Then the custom iso can be installed as a normal system with tui installer and all the configurations are applied.
There are problems: the lua script is slow as hell, the script in desktop mode download too many packages as "required", the documentation is old and updated to version 8.0 (not that's a problem, the fundamentals works the same and the scripts are graphical)
For the one who wrote zero: that's not a T2 problem, that's a MX problem, don't use crap
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Version: 21.7
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-07-10
Votes: 1
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Spent half a day on this and encountered major issues between tool state and documentation. HTML handbook says:
"T2 requires just a few prerequisites for building:
a Bash shell: as the T2 scripts take advantage of some convenient Bash specific features and shortcuts
ncurses: for the scripts/Config tool
cat, cut, sed & co: for the usual shell scripting"
In reality (on MX host), I needed to install subversion, lzip, zstd and kcc. Build still aborted saying '-E bad option' so the Debian version of kcc did not include that option. I hunted for an hour or so trying to find the source code before giving up.
BTW, I am no newbie, I regularly build Gentoo and LFS.
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Latest Reviews
Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 25.10
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-10-11
Votes: 2
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This automatic build and Linux distribution setup is pretty interesting, but the developer seems super proud of all the esoteric jargon in the installer and the documentation. The installer is a lot like the ones for Slackware or FreeBSD, but those aren't as confusing as T2 SDK to get through.
The documentation has issues too, since it doesn’t have a clear starting point to guide users to what they really care about: setting up the encrypted system and getting the wireless network going. I think the real advantage of this setup is in target compilation and cross-compilation, but honestly, I can handle those tasks manually without any hassle.
If they improved the installer and the documentation, they could definitely attract more users.
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 25.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-31
Votes: 0
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It is a good distro especially for developers, may be not for new comers and daily usage for simple work. I appreciate a lot what the developers(s) intended to do, and the work that has been put into this distro. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, please continue your remarkable work. I understand that the number of developers working on the project is limited, hence, there may be some issues creating a user friendly installation tools, but I think it is not the purpose of the project. So, if you want to learn and get into a bit deeper into linux environment then it will be good for you (similar to slackware). I highly recommend if you are a serious developer. Thanks again for creating such a project.
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 25.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-04-14
Votes: 7
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It is a good distro especially for developers, may be not for new comers and daily usage for simple work. I appreciate a lot what the developers(s) intended to do, and the work that has been put into this distro. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, please continue your remarkable work. I understand that the number of developers working on the project is limited, hence, there may be some issues creating a user friendly installation tools, but I think it is not the purpose of the project. So, if you want to learn and get into a bit deeper into linux environment then it will be good for you (similar to slackware). I highly recommend if you are a serious developer. Thanks again for creating such a project.
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 24.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-09
Votes: 12
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Excellent work!
Installer is very familiar for Slackware users like me
I also like the philosophy of project.
I can say that T2_sde Its the a distro (like Slackware) that attract me so much from the first day of use!
After 20 years as Linux user, a new interesting Linux experience appears for me. Very interesting!
I will come back when I have installation in bare-metal as for now only virtual installation I have.
In any case you have my respect!
It will be interesting for me to test how local AI`s (running in CPU+RAM , GPU)reacts with this system in bare metal installation
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 24.5
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-05-13
Votes: 0
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Hard to install and no live preview (No install mode), confusing It should be an easy-to-use installation that suits our age and should not alienate people. If there is user feedback and the developer cares about them, then the project can go to good places.Even in the last evaluation and comment on this site, I read about the problem experienced during installation. And similar problems still exist. Maybe it drives people to this situation because it has a complicated installation style. I wish you good luck and hope we get a great distro. What I said above are important things. should be taken into consideration.
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 22.6
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-07-17
Votes: 1
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I failed to create a bootable system in vmware workstation 16 on an intel 7th generation laptop, neither runlevel 2 nor runlevel 5 provided a login prompt. Stuck at "previous runlevel: n, new runlevel 5", but just sits there for 15 minutes now on a fast laptop with fast ssd.
The general idea seems nice to me, but more bugs than i expect.
User interface sometimes confusing, what needs to be done to proceed.
Will try 21.7 next but if it doesnot work in vmware workstation i will not try anything else.
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 21.7
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-07-11
Votes: 6
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The system is actually pretty nice, you can choose to install it by prebuilt ISOs with default settings or compile by yourself all the settings. This second passage can be made with a custom lua+bash script that simplify the operation.
You can choose different init system, package list and various optimization, also is possible to edit and customize all the tools before finalazing a installation ISO.
Then the custom iso can be installed as a normal system with tui installer and all the configurations are applied.
There are problems: the lua script is slow as hell, the script in desktop mode download too many packages as "required", the documentation is old and updated to version 8.0 (not that's a problem, the fundamentals works the same and the scripts are graphical)
For the one who wrote zero: that's not a T2 problem, that's a MX problem, don't use crap
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Project: T2 Linux SDE
Version: 21.7
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-07-10
Votes: 1
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Spent half a day on this and encountered major issues between tool state and documentation. HTML handbook says:
"T2 requires just a few prerequisites for building:
a Bash shell: as the T2 scripts take advantage of some convenient Bash specific features and shortcuts
ncurses: for the scripts/Config tool
cat, cut, sed & co: for the usual shell scripting"
In reality (on MX host), I needed to install subversion, lzip, zstd and kcc. Build still aborted saying '-E bad option' so the Debian version of kcc did not include that option. I hunted for an hour or so trying to find the source code before giving up.
BTW, I am no newbie, I regularly build Gentoo and LFS.
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