stormos Reviews

As a real veteran of computer technology of 48 years this project is worth a look at. Noone needs a pretty desktop or all of the BS apps in the .iso file. In Arch we just grab our apps from the AUR and Flatpak. I have been testing StormOS for sometime now. The dev team works long and hard on this project. I am proud of how far this project has come. I have read alot the reviews and some of it seems straight out of W.O.K.E. News which is for folks that nothing better to do than complain. If a person doesn't like it then don't use it. Just go on to the next one without all of the inexperienced BS. Try it on bare metal first before you decide. And if you have only 2-CORES and 4 Gb of RAM this will work just fine. Have fun with it and enjoy!

easy install, did not seem to want to work with xfs but btrfs is fine. Really beautiful to look at, I only wish i hadnt missed out on the KDE version to see how it looked, ahh couple weeks too late it seems, but a good distro so far, zero issues. So far on par with Garuda, and vanilla arch for my use, gaming mostly -thx guys!

Plasma desktop crashes while installing.

I don't know anything about operating systems, but I really like linux and arch. I was looking for an alternative to arcolinux, that had kde, that was also purer and didn't have the plasma shortcuts that bothered me so much when using arcolinux. Stormos was and is perfect for me. Maybe it lacks a little beauty. But this is relative. So congratulations to the developer. I would like to contribute to the project if the developers allow it. I'm littlejhonnes at gmail dot com

Oh boy, rant time, read on if you want an honest reaction from a vet who ONLY uses Arch or Arch-Based ....Another one? Folks imma level wit yall, and be real, im all for a new fork of Arch, im one of THOSE dreaded "BTW I use Arch" elitists, however unlike my peers im aware staring at a pitch black screen (TTY) is neither visually pleasing, nor does it allow for you to properly dip into the AUR (TTY is a root user, cant use Paru, Yay or Trizen while root) limiting potential & creative Arch setups, however I take issue when these forks do little to nothing to make it their own, StormOS, mdmxos & theres others drag & drop, theres nothing different here, than ArchLinuxGUI, Arcolinux's Carli, or hell even just from that dreaded TTY i mentioned typing "archinstall" or "python-archinstall," all of which offer a barebones Arch installer, with a desktop included...nothing except the directory & packages could use some cleanup, you want Arch with the branding (unoriginal logo btw boss, the Arch orb logo, just with Impact font microsoft painted/photoshopped on top, really? But I guess anything is better than this 1 distro who had a copyrighted stormtrooper helmet illegally as the logo, wonder what happened to them....hmm) but Arch gui installer with the branding=ArchGUI, Carli. Best out-of-the-box dedicated tiling wm distro=Archcraft, best gaming=Garuda, and my boy over at GDL-Golden Drake Linux, non systemd=Artix, all around most complete=ArcoLinuxL, purest overall Arch AND any Linux=Hyperbola/Parabola, or do it the Arch way=Arch Linux, any way you slice it, this is trash, sorry to say, cant say much bad, but I always discredit the lazy, unimaginative Arch-based isos, because theres no reason for them to exist, other than the creator, usually theres only 1 when its this copy & pasted, wanted to try to join the bandwagon & get his name recognized, but unfortunately it worked, but thankfully ppl are smart enough not to use it as a primary driver & only just to see, you can do better, cuz this wouldnt be Arch approved, its not the Arch way, its not done for Arch reasons (meaning, its not done with the best intentions), and its a lazy fork that cant even put little sunglasses on the A (different fork's logo) much less make its own logo & identity, if you plan on keeping this on a drive for longer than a few days, im sorry for your loss (of mind). Have fun, and get your own identity. -KM Edit: I wonder....Did "Ben-Linuxguy1" get a copyright claim from LucasArts/Disney when Storm had a stormtrooper as the logo, or did he realize Arch is copyLEFTED (Open-Source) but that still doesnt mean you can use a copyRIGHTED image, even for a fork?

This project has been a great pleasure to me as I am loving giving back to the Linux Community. I love doing this and hope that it never ends.

Live medium boots but the install won't, hangs at boot... (revised) I just tried the 2022.04.15 iso and while it installs and boots now, it won't play nicely with "install alongside" and "replace partition" options in a dual boot setup; ie it will not detect and display other operating systems (even using "grub customizer " after install) - It could be due to automounting those volumes during the install process and probably works fine for "erase whole disk" install option...

no discord or no answer on support ticket system or else i would have given it 5 star rating. this review might change if the dev of stormos gets back to me

Very nice system. The only issue I have is the dock. Really rather have a panel instead.

This is amazing distribution out of the box you get OBS,chromium,discord app. And wait there's more tools i use on regularly bases. Most important part it has Lutris gaming all you need. And if you don't have it you can get it WOW.

I'm getting a persistent multili.db,hackman.db,pacman.db error at the very end of the install.Says it can't reach the hackamn github repository.

Would be better to add support for wifi by default because it does not detect my laptop wifi only LAN is supported from live session here is my wifi lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) 23:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 30) 23:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 30) 23:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 30) 24:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Great that you guys got this done, I downloaded the iso but can't get passed the log in screen can you share the password. thanks

Looks truly promising and mouth watering. Must try immediately.

Looking good. :)