CROWZ

Reader supplied reviews for CROWZ Average rating 7.8 from 19 review(s) What are your thoughts on CROWZ? 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: -- 5.0 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: 5.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-03-17 Votes: 0 Only giving this a one because the install could not start, my usb keyboard had no power so they didn't have compatible usb drivers in the installer so I could choose live or liveram or anything. I know this because I tapped the cap lock and number lock keys and no lights on the keyboard lit up. Huge mistake not having a small driver for a mouse, reminds me of linux from the late 90's where no mouse or keyboard drivers worked when I tried an install. I have low expectations for this distro if they did not try installs on various different pc's since the programmer must have been using a ps2 mouse/keyboard to have this huge oversight, like just ask a friend to install it and test it out or a relative. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-08 Votes: 1 Crowz has been unprofessionally compared to a DE Desktop Environment (DE) while it's a Window Manager (WM), however a very good one without the bloat and weight of many so called light weight distribution regardless if it's a WM or DE. All three WM, Openbox, Fluxbox, and JWM are some of the best and long term favorites. The best attributes of Crowz is the small size, of less than 900 mbs. Just enough of proven applications to get a new user up and running. Theming and icons are hand selected for size, and yet full enough to do the job. Either light or dark themed, it only takes a few seconds to chose between the dark and light. I'm not a fan of Firefox-esr, or Google Chrome, but that is largely a users choice and discretion., think the author and dev does what he thinks is best and provides a chance to install Firefox and Chromium. Linux could use a good browser specificly for Linux that is modern and function, the lack of that is not Crowz fault. I chose Fluxbox, a bit more "bling" than JWM or Openbox, I've used Blackbox originally and never left the configurations, although Openbox is born from it. Crowz offers the best of these WM worlds of simplicity and a tweak heaven. Crowz is simply one of the best distro's I have ever installed, and I've installed hundreds. It's a pleasure to have it as a daily driver. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-09-02 Votes: 33 I installed Crowz linux about a month ago, and it was a great choice being it was based on Devaun. I started using linux this year in February, when a friend suggested me to use LinuxMint. After that I tried endeavourOS and Arch, and I didn't liked systemD, it was slow and it felt old. Arch was not for me, and I wanted something light for daily use that dosn't break. I distrohopped a lot, I used debian, Opensuse, ubuntu and many more. I found Crowz, and I didn't know what it was, so I tried it in a virtual machine. At first I had trouble with partitions, then I heard that Crowz has a poor repository and many other things but pretty much same as Debian. After this long distrohop Crowz linux was my last choice for a distro.. After months, in June I decided it was time to change and gave another shot to install another Crowz, JWM this time. This time I had better knowledge on linux, and I had 0 trouble whit partitions and the desktop. After using Openbox for a long time on Debian and arch I decided to go for Fluxbox, which I personally love the simplicity of it. Synaptic is so good, I think it's better than pacman. The site is straight to the point whit a really good interface and I downloaded the iso in 1 minute. After I installed and tweaked Fluxbox as I liked, I was really shocked to see that the boot and the shutdown were really fast, and the webcam and the brightness worked after a clean install. I'm on Crowz Fluxbox for a month and everything worked fine, nothing broken after an update, got all the stuff I need. I never thought of using Fluxbox as my daily driver, and here I am. Crowz was the perfect distro for me, I had a minimal Fluxbox install, whit just the basic stuff, a browser, a file manager and a terminal, and I installed later other applications I needed. If I never risked trying something new I would not be here, so my advice is to give a shot to this distro. Maybe it isn't right for you, but at least you know something new, Crowz is simple, if you use it for work or as a daily driver, use a window manager and then nice it not as bloated as a DE, put a window manager like Openbox or JWM and it will never break. I think it can improve a lot, white more packages on the non-free repos, because let's be honest, not everyone wants to use only free open source software, but overall it's a 10/10 for a great experience as a daily driver. I have changed sysVinit for Runit, very easily and quick. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 19 reader reviews of CROWZ...