Refracta

Reader supplied reviews for Refracta Average rating 7.8 from 4 review(s) Version: 11.2-20230504 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-03-30 Votes: 4 Tried bsd and as a desktop the best was ghost and it was less usable than any linux distro I have tried. My problem was my collection of ten year old nucs would not boot any linux distro with a kernel six series. This is not a problem without systemd and refracta worked beautifully. Modifying the refracta installer files to do the job I wanted was easy. as was everthing else I tried on it. whereas mxlinux argued and crashed with a simplified grub to speed up boot. So now I have all my software and my own remastered bootable, installable iso on a usb stick that has up to date sofware on my ten year old nucs and also works on n95 cpus. SO after 4 weeks of trying to get bsd to perform basic system tasks on my machines like bare metal restore and failing, I have my answer. goodbye systemd, I cant afford you $$$$$ Version: 11.1-20220914 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-02-18 Votes: 0 I love Debian (or Devuan) distros with Xfce so I tried this almost unknown distro (number 230 in DistroWatch list). The installer is a little bit cryptic for just a user like me, but in the end I was able to install it in my test laptop. Everything seemed OK so I updated the system with Synaptic. Suddenly anti-aliasing disappeared (appeared with a complete re-start). Later I realized that the internet connection icon in the panel didn't work, so I thought there was no connection, but connection worked. I downloaded several more addons for the panel but when I was installing them the panel disappeared. I tried to recover it with the settings panel button but there was only a cryptic message. I re-started the system but it didn't appeared. I reinstalled it with Synaptic, but it didn't work either. With no panel I abandoned Refracta. It is the worst Xfce Debian/Devuan derivative I know, and believe me: I know a lot.. Version: 10.2-20201114 Rating: 10 Date: 2021-09-05 Votes: 65 In the past, I used a few years mint as daily driver, but I wasn't satisfied, especially systemd, and how I hate libreoffice. Meanwhile, I tested many distros in search of the 'perfect' linux distro for my needs. The closest was Devuan, but the look and feel was oldish. Then, I discovered Refracta, this was/is it! Refracta is very clean, but I cleaned it more. I made it as clean as possible. Then, I installed the applications I need. You know, I am a 'paranoid'. So, I decided to make a kind of 'Tails' or 'Heads' of my own. I am very satisfied. Now, I'm busy to build an ISO-image for persistent live USB-sticks (copy of my entire system) including full encryption. Everything goes through Tor (Swordfish Browser), Encryption Wizard, VeraCrypt, Paranoia Text Encryption, encrypted Tutanota email app-image, and so on. My purpose is to use the exactly same system, which I have on PC, to use on persistent USB-stick, where I need it safely, private and anonymous. Therefor, I give Refracta a 10. Thank you! See all 4 reader reviews of Refracta...