Exherbo

Reader supplied reviews for Exherbo Average rating 5.2 from 5 review(s) What are your thoughts on Exherbo? 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: -- current 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: current Rating: 3 Date: 2025-12-03 Votes: 1 “It’s impossible to install! Every time I try to install it, various problems occur. The installation guide from their site seems to be wrong. When comes the time for GRUB to install, whether in BIOS or EFI mode, the installation fails. And if you try to install dracut (which isn’t included!), it throws errors and causes package conflicts. There’s no documentation at all, and the filesystem layout is different from Gentoo’s. You cannot find how to resolve the issues. Where is, for example, the "package.use" file, the "make.conf", etc...? It’s as if the developers of this distribution don’t want any user to install it and are keeping it exclusively for themselves. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 4 Date: 2023-10-27 Votes: 1 Compared to Gentoo, it is too bloated in many ways. I think CAVE is superior to Portage, but I have no other reason to choose it. I have been using this system for a few days now and I still don't understand it. I have read that a package management system called Paludis can be implemented in Gentoo, so if you are using Gentoo, you might want to try that before trying Exherbo. I am going to use it for a while and see how it goes. By the way, don't forget that I don't recommend this OS because it has a lot of troublesome errors such as UNWRITTEN etc. So far, I give it a 4 out of 10. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 5 Date: 2023-07-30 Votes: 2 in comparation to gentoo it is too bloated if one choose minimal profile on gentoo to build system, there will be flags available for almost any option in source supported by original maintainer, gentoo devs make little changes to fit source into portage system. While on exherbo, almost half options (use flags) will be hard enabled in source. so, user have more freedom and configuration on gentoo than on exherbo. If somebodie doesnt like exherbo source, for sure he can make his repository and than configure packagesm but its not always easy to compile them later and install with cave. exherbo is for users who doesnt mind to have bloated system for year or two with great learning curve until they really learn how to do it well. Cave is better tha portage, but thats it. distribution is worst, repositories are bloated with hard enabled supports in source... i give it 5/10 Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 5 reader reviews of Exherbo...