Elive

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Reader supplied reviews for Elive Average rating 7.2 from 12 review(s) What are your thoughts on Elive? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.8.323.0.42.01.00.60.50.4.20.30.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3.8.32 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-06-13 Votes: 5 Since version 3.8.32 Elive lets you install sysVinit, making it even more lightweight and faster for my old potato PC. I like the retrowave idea and design of the system, however, it will take a bit of time to get adjusted to Enlightenment and Elive uses Enlightenment version 16 instead of 25 which I find more modern so some may find its design a bit dated. For those of you who are looking for a system rich in additional apps and tweaked for easy terminal use, you wlil find a lot to like in Elive, the system comes with a lot of apps for various purposes (music making, surfing the internet, communicating with friends and family, e.t.c., you can choose whether to install them or not) and links and it lets you choose which default browser you want to have. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't possible to remove some of those links from the menu in plank, perhaps in future versions of Enlightenment there is more customizability, but, overall, the system was snappy, it offered a lot of nice designs and has potential to be a lightweight but feature complete OS not just for the old computers. As I am more of a barebones, netinstall and build your own system from the ground up kind of guy, although my 2 weeks with it were quite fun and I only encountered one issue where I could not update my applications unless I did it from the console, I will probably jump back to Debian or try to get FreeBSD running on my computer. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.0.4 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-03-19 Votes: 4 I once put Elive on an old Dell B130. Great old 32bit computer. Elive ran so well on an old Celeron single core and IDE drive. In fact ran about as fast as any modern computer once booted up. Can't remember how much ram it had though Especially enjoyed the enlightenment desktop with mac like dock. I wouldn't mind trying the 64 bit version someday with perhaps a spinning sata or even an ssd. It has been a few or more years since I had that old Dell. Pros- Very lightweight Distro. Very attractive desktop (to me) Very fast on old hardware A very different distro (coming from a distro hopper that often returned to Linux Mint) Cons- It was at first a steep learning curve to use a distro that wasn't friendly to a windows user. Once you get used to where everything is it's not so bad Other reviewers state that it's (wheezy) extremely old, but if you like tinkering with old hardware and it's not a daily driver you can have a repurposed computer that will bring life to old hardware and would be less e-waste in a landfill. I really like this distro. I don't care much about gaming, To me it is a "tinkerer's dream. It looks like a lot of work went into this distro. i don't know why there are some old posted negative comments of how bad it looks etc... I for one also like to stray from the norm. i am a current windows and a mac user using current OS'es on unsupported hardware. One day I'd like for a dedicated Linux laptop and this distro keeps coming to mind Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.8.30 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-01-22 Votes: 5 This is a great distro. Keep in mind the stable version is extremely old (Debian Wheezy) and is no longer updated. Try the Beta version - it looks retro but quite nice at the same time. (Despite the name, the beta version is extremely stable, but a retro desktop environment is used temporarily while under-the-hood changes are made.) PROS: - Great configuration - Friendly support (disclaimer: I am a forum moderator) - Unique (how many distros use Enlightenment? I can only name one other) - Doesn't sell your data CONS: - Not enterprise-level support - The interface isn't for everyone The downloads are sometimes slow, but if you're having trouble hop onto the forum. While the 64-bit version _does_ require you to either donate, write a review, or participate in the forum to download, the 32-bit beta still works flawlessly. I highly recommend this distro except for gaming. While gaming is possible, it is not designed with it in mind (at least at the moment) since the developer doesn't really game. Which is another disadvantage: there's only one developer and occasional volunteers. All in all, solid distro! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 12 reader reviews of Elive...