SpiralLinux

Reader supplied reviews for SpiralLinux Average rating 9.1 from 56 review(s) What are your thoughts on SpiralLinux? 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: -- 12.23112011.220925 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: 12.231120 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-01 Country: The Netherlands Votes: 0 Top. Use it on 2008 satellite l300 with celeron 575 singlecore, hdd en 2gb of RAM with zram ofcourse.... Everything worked out of the box, easy install. Only the snapperGUI for recreating your settings etc in Spirallinux didnt function, so installed Timeshift instead. Downloaded some windows wallpapers and icon themes etc....Looks very nice and works pretty fast considering the older harware! Tried different distro's on many seperate notebooks. depending the hardware it's just about finding the right match. This is primarely based on hardware type. The low 'bloat' and user friendly GUI combined with an excellent standard package makes SpiralLinux a worthy contender for the majority of pc's and notebooks, and certainly suitable for seemingly old laptops..2008 and newer. Bid thumbs up and thanks! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 12.231120 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-06 Votes: 2 A rock-solid Debian foundation with best practices built in. I've been using Debian for 14 years and love it. About three years ago, I switched to a laptop and wanted to go full LUKS with Btrfs. At the time, I knew nothing about them, but I discovered SpiralLinux and gave it a try. I was immediately impressed by how thoroughly SpiralLinux implemented best practices, saving me days of research and setup. A year later, I enhanced my system further with systemd-boot, dracut, ukify, tpm2-with-pin, sbctl, and more. But SpiralLinux gave me the rock-solid, ready-to-use foundation that was quick and easy to install. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 12.231120 Rating: 7 Date: 2025-11-13 Votes: 0 This is a good distro. It is very easy to install this distro and it works very well. It satisfies my minimalist taste. I would like to talk about one thing. It is about treating VirtualBox. It is very easy to install this distro on VirtualBox (The host distro is another distro such as Linux Mint). It works very well. But I cannot install VirtualBox itself on this distro. (I followed the message shown when installing this distro. I added a parameter to kernel as it was indicated.) I don't know the reason of this malfunction. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 56 reader reviews of SpiralLinux...