Vendefoul Wolf

Reader supplied reviews for Vendefoul Wolf Average rating 8.7 from 7 review(s) Version: 20260124 Rating: 4 Date: 2026-03-06 Country: Ireland Votes: 2 On print, great project and love the ethos. It clearly tries to put the best foot forward on being free and away from big tech influence. In reality, not great and I see a trend where the flavors are being released effectively broken. I tried the sonicde iso, could not install in offline or online mode. Kept failing on an sh script. I know its alpha but at least you would expect to be able to install it. Not great when it erases your disk and then fails to install leaving you high and dry. Then I tried the cinnamon edition. What you get is a broken cinnamon. Touchegg is not available so gestures are not working. You are perpetually stuck in custom theming and orchis. When you install another theme, you can only change the inline windows, title bars are perpetually stuck in orchis rounded. You dont get the icons showing or any other aspects of the themes you download. You still see spanish dotted around the environment enven after selecting english on the installer. When you see GA isos, treat them like betas and alphas just dont work. Version: 20260203 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-14 Country: Norway Votes: 16 I tested Vendefoul Wolf GNU/Linux to see if I could use it for work and on my private computer. There are several things that are important to me when I consider a distribution; 1) it has to focus on freedom, but at the same time include stuff to make my computers work, 2) stability, 3) I have to be able to run the software I need, 4) I should be able to install my favourite desktop environment/windows manager, 5) I like to play with all sorts of stuff without restrictions, 6) I want a fast system, and finally, 7) I don’t like to see politics in user forums. 1. Freedom Vendefoul Wolf include what you need to get your computer running. WiFi, printer (Brother) and other stuff worked out of the box. That means some non-free, but only what is absolutely needed (like in the latest versions of Debian/Devuan). I think this is a good balance, and it makes the distro easy to use for beginners. Vendefoul Wolf has some software in its own repo, and it is free (Libre). 2. Stability and hardware Based on Devuan (based on Debian) suggests stability. I have had no issues running it on bare metal (Lenovo and Dell machines), in virtual machines (GNOME boxes) and from a USB. This was highly expected and one reason why I am testing out Vendefoul Wolf rather than other distros. 3. Software and system In apt there is a lot of software, so given that Vendefoul Wolf is based on Devuan (based on Debian), I knew I would get what I need when it comes to software. Not all software I use works perfect with Wayland, so Xlibre in Vendefoul Wolf is a good thing for me. Flatpak is already in the OS, so you can go straight to the Software store to get newer stuff. The icons appeared in the menu after a reboot (I installed a couple of programs from Flathub just to check it out). I did not try to install Snap on the system (because I don’t like Snap), and I am glad the developers decided on Flatpak. There is no A.I. in the system which I assume is important to many people escaping the A.I. horrors of Microsoft Windows 11. 4. Desktop I installed a couple of desktop environments just to have a look, and use Cinnamon at the moment. Also installed AwesomeWM, my window manager of choice. I have not set it up properly with AwesomeWM, so not everything is in place as of now. Just copied over my existing config from my Debian machine, but it is enough to say that Vendefoul Wolf is AWESOME! 5. Playing around I made changes to grub (show boot menu 1 second instead of 5), and less use of swap in my setup (changed swappiness to 20). Also made some other personal changes relevant only to me. 6. Speed and RAM Vendefoul Wolf works great on older hardware. I run it on an old Lenovo ideapad 110 with 2 GB RAM and 2 cores. Also have it on an SSD on a Dell with 12 cores and 16 GB RAM, and it is really fast. Also fine in VMs (tested in GNOME Boxes) and it is fast running from a memory stick. With my present (not fully set up) AwesomeWM config, it runs at around 260 MB right after boot. 7. No politics I translated the Spanish CoC at Discord (at the best of my ability), and it says no politics if I got things right. That means that whatever your politics may be, you are welcome and you should talk politics elsewhere. This is how it should be! Other things Another thing I find worth mentioning is that I really like the design, like the wolf appearing during boot, to the wallpapers. It is a nice distro to showcase to newcomers to GNU/Linux due to its attention to theming. The wolf appears in many fun videos over on the Youtube channel – including as a DJ to a flock of sheep. That is a nice touch. Conclusion Vendefoul Wolf GNU/Linux is a very nice system and the developers have made some smart choices. I give it a 10 out of 10 for the reasons mentioned above. Some reasons are personal, but hopefully also relevant to others. Version: 181125 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-12-04 Votes: 7 I discovered this distro on the web via Distrowatch and YouTube. I tried it and was impressed for the following reasons: -speed of execution, -makes it easy to install Devuan, -well-defined graphics. The community and developers are very knowledgeable. Installed on an Acer laptop that was unusable with Windows, it works really well. The Vendefoul Linux project is very lively and technically interesting: they develop graphical applications that benefit users it uses Xlibre It uses Trinity, but there are also several other desktop environments available For example, I use the XFCE desktop version. They will soon release the KDE Plasma version with Xlibre , and I look forward to trying it out. See all 7 reader reviews of Vendefoul Wolf...