DO NOT Try SOLUS

To start with it does not look like a standard Linux Distribution.

USB image is 3.2GB and boots OK.

To begin with it configures the WiFi OK.

It does not have an entry for EFI to begin with. It ERASED the EFI with FAT32. I went back deleted and made a new EFI ENTRY.

It.Actually it made FAT partition to boot as im Legacy computer.

Later I found that EFI partition allows any boot script to be written either legacy or UEFI. I have no problem with EFI since I do not use Microsoft Windows.

Installation took only 11 minutes and I knew it would not boot. 

Besides, it killed the BIOS entry without EFI for booting. BIOS flagged me to say, that there is no hard disk to boot. 

I was so annoyed I made lot of mistakes while making correction but Debian Base warns me of my mistake before committing.

SOLUS did not flag or gave any warnings.

I guessed at the end this SAGS SOLUS may come alive since I left /boot entry.

It did not and I do not know what dedkto it has.

I think this is an independent distribution made by some bone headed guys in Ireland, just luke ZORIN guys.

If SOLUS come alive I would find 10 more of its shortcimings, if ever it mounts on my NUC. These guys probably were Unity and Budgie guys who have lately realized their own mistakes and trying to come to the fold of Debian by stealing the work of Debian.

AVOID this distribution by all means.

Since I have not used it in the past and I am going to make an entry in my upcoming book, this SAGA was a necessary episode but was a Catastrophe.

I really went mad.

Manjaro Cinnamon

 Manjaro Cinnamon

I was bit unhappy with KIRO Linux with dull desktop features to save on memory.

I tried all the Big Linux Images fro K66, K612 to K17 Kernels buy none of them had the the appropriate drivers for the basic NUC .

Last time when I tried Lastold linux they did not boot.

This time I found Manjaro Cinnamon (not the community edition), there.

It had the same problem  as with Manjaro it took more than half an hour to read my partition table.

Once it read the partitions it is smooth sale.

WiFi configuration was smooth

Cinnamon Desktop is beautiful and elegant and I begin to like it.

Also brings the past nostalgia, using it during 32 bit time.

It is at 24% after 12 minutes filling up the partitions.

I hope it is not frozen at 24% after  such a wait. It looks like it the Calmares that is frozen unabke to make /tmp/ root file.

Like UBUNTU it opens all my Partitions without root permission.

I manged to move 2 iso to the NTFS partition.

It is not the RAM that is holding the the installation.

Password on live Session is Manjaro.

It was a typical MANJARO failure and I hit the kill switch before it destoys my GRUB file. I am still to find a suitable iso to install.

LastOS is also a failure.

Whay next?

I may try beta version of Antix25.

Revisting KIRO Linux

It comes from Belgium.

Historically I have heard nothing good about Belgians and that certainly has some effect on this simple review.

To begin with I won't withdraw my remarks about Variiety Wallpaper using it back port to snoope on the user.

It is ARCH based and Xfce which I do not fancy.

I had a spare GNOME instance which I almost never used.

So I installed KIRO to try installing Gnome and Plasma.

It is light weight and used only 10GB of 25GB / root partition.

I could not remove Variety and it is bound to command line by default.

It looks like it is used for school use and the desktop effects are good but not as good as BlueStar Linux.

KIRO Linux is of low priority to me.

Successful but it ERASED by GRUB.

Only BlueFish Linux and Reborn of ARCH tend to live together.

I want to see KIRO could, if not it will be ERASED soon.

I should get my GRUB back to see the probable invasion or evasion.

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