Slint

Reader supplied reviews for Slint Average rating 10 from 3 review(s) What are your thoughts on Slint? 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: -- 15.0 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: 15.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-09 Votes: 0 While Slint provides extensive support for the visually challenged community, it also excels as a 'standard' Linux for the rest of us. First, if you have a machine that uses the Broadwell rt-386 chip for sound, Slint is, I think, the only updated distro that supports it properly 'out of the box.' Second, the developer and the community are very active, and the developer is extremely responsive with updates and problem-solving advice, and is very open to suggestions for improvements. The only 'weakness' Slint has, in my opinion, is sometimes there are just too many ways to accomplish the same thing, with redundancies in the menu system. The developer is aware of this and I expect that will be corrected in version 16. Also, be aware that the installation is a text-driven system, not hard to use, but different from the graphical installs that are so common today. I will also note that the system is relatively light-weight, only using about 1GB of RAM. It works very well on my old HP Spectre 360! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 15.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-08 Votes: 0 While Slint provides extensive support for the visually challenged community, it also excels as a 'standard' Linux for the rest of us. First, if you have a machine that uses the Broadwell rt-386 chip for sound, Slint is, I think, the only updated distro that supports it properly 'out of the box.' Second, the developer and the community are very active, and the developer is extremely responsive with updates and problem-solving advice, and is very open to suggestions for improvements. The only 'weakness' Slint has, in my opinion, is sometimes there are just too many ways to accomplish the same thing, with redundancies in the menu system. The developer is aware of this and I expect that will be corrected in version 16. Also, be aware that the installation is a text-driven system, not hard to use, but different from the graphical installs that are so common today. I will also note that the system is relatively light-weight, only using about 1GB of RAM. It works very well on my old HP Spectre 360! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 15.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-05-04 Votes: 3 Slint is a very interesting distribution as it adds extra functionality for blind people. The website is very useful and informative. It is slightly easier to use compared to Slackware. The installer is very intuitive and comes with a good choice of desktop environments, mate, lxqt... perhaps xfce in the future. It comes with a good set of tools for system and software management and is a ready to use distribution. I find the system to be very stable and with very up-to-date software. The only negative point has to do with the customization/look of the system because I find it a bit standard. Was this review helpful? Yes No