Expirion Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Expirion Linux Average rating 7.5 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on Expirion Linux? 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: -- 6.1-2511055.12-251105 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: 6.1-251005 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-10-29 Votes: 5 The first thing I noticed about Expirion is the fact you have to create your partitions manually using Gparted, which is no big deal if you know how to do that. There is a basic guide on the Sourceforge website under Files/Documentation that tells you how to partition your drive- The Refracta Installer actually works on Expirion I could not get it to work on Devuan After installation was complete Expirion boots up and all my hardware was detected on my Dell Latitude E6530 Laptop. Expirion is fast and very stable and has flatpak installed by default and is running Debian Kernel 6.16.3 - I enjoy this distro and is now my daily driver Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.1-250906 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-10-04 Votes: 0 Live disk loads OK. Installation from USB key to SSD failed (black screen after boot). Refracta installer gives erroneously "no disk with gpt table", "no EFI partition". First time I encounter this installer, could not find a remedy. I can't recall when was the last time an installation failed for me (no expert, but linux user for many years). Xfce version. Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450 AORUS M serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F67g date: 03/11/2025 Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.0-250701 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-07-04 Votes: 9 I am running this distro on three of my machines. I used v 6 with the xfce desktop and it is superb. It resolves alot of issues that are present in the devuan 6.0 installer. The first one is where the debian style installer will not detect the wifi driver even though it was detected fine in 5.11 which makes no sense. You can get around this by inserting the 5.11 usb but its pretty poor that the standard wifi intel drivers are not available on the devuan install natively. The second issue that expirion resolves is the live iso refracta installer, it just does not open on devuan and failes with a missing file error. Exprion has resolved this issue. One point to not is that you need to make sure your partition table is gpt before creating your partitions. If you are running a recent hp laptop, you will have to move the /boot/efi/devuan contents to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT and rename the grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi because hp have hard coded the path of the boot loader to only identify windows paths. Expirion wont boot otherwise, its a hp issue. The system is effectively debian without systemd so you get most of the usual packages and it updates from the devuan repositories. Its very stable, quick and reliable and is my permanent distro now. Its devuan sid with the kinks worked out and better. Every distro is subject to the users needs but this one actually keeps me from distro hopping. There was just one app I could not get because it is only in flatpak but I just downloaded and installed myself manually from source. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of Expirion Linux...