Vendefoul Wolf

Reader supplied reviews for Vendefoul Wolf Average rating 8.3 from 12 review(s) What are your thoughts on Vendefoul Wolf? 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: -- 2026041520260124 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: 20260124 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-07-14 Country: Brazil Votes: 1 I've been using the XFCE version of Vendefoul Wolf Excalibur on an old ThinkPad T480. I installed it because I wanted to try a systemd free distro and I wanted a more "out of the box" Devuan experience, since I'm more familiar to the Debian-APT ecosystem. Has been very stable for me, with no issues at all. The installation was painless, simple and without issues. Of course still a very new and small Distro and still needs more polishing here and there, I see Vendefoul Wolf having a nice and bright future. I really appreciate their views about the Linux world and their strong position against Age Verification. I see myself recommending Vendefoul Wolf more in the future, after a little more polishing. So yeah, very solid small distro with a nice basis. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20260415 Rating: 6 Date: 2026-07-11 Country: United States Votes: 1 I've only been using this for about four hours. Here's a quick rundown. The panel starting malfunctioning, starting the wrong applications. I've never see that before. Abiword wouldn't give me any drop-down menus. Turned out two text editors wouldn't either. There's no sound. I need the headphones jack to work. Nope. I spent almost two hours fruitlessly dinking around with Alsa and PulseAudio.and anything else I could think of. Also found that Gdeb doesn't refresh. APT works fine so I got around that. The last reboot showed a non-functioning icon on the taskbar which I couldn't get rid of except by rebooting again. That's just what's happened in the last four hours. I really wanted to give this distro a ten but I can't. I'm sure some people have been working hard on it, but it's not ready. I'll likely try it again after a new release or two but for now it's going into the bit-bucket. Sorry peeps. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20260415 Rating: 5 Date: 2026-06-04 Country: Ireland Votes: 8 I get the concept and I like it but the execution needs work. I tried a few of the ISO's and here are the results. SonicDE:- Fails to install at the end executing config.sh when it tries to configure the grub partition. This happened on both AMD and Intel hardware from HP and Dell. Trinity:- Same as above. Budgie:- Installed successfully but there were issues after. I installed updates after install and the Samba package failed to install on the first go. On my AMD machine it installed a new Xlibre version and firmware which killed the x server after reboot. Additionally the package updater does not work unless you run sudo apt update. It will not load in the tray and when opened without the command will tell you the system is up to date. On the Intel Dell machine, xlibre went in fine but had the samba package issue. Additionally, there are no shortcuts for installing from the desktop and its hidden in the app launcher which will require you to enter the lobo user account password. The default file manager is pcmanfm which is weird and is the least functional of all the file managers. XFCE4: Installs and works as expected on both Intel and AMD but did not test the new xlibre updates on the AMD. LXQT:- It installs but libreoffice crashes when you attempt to open it. Its a conflict with the GTK and the QT that requires fixing. Cinnamon:- Installs fine but features are missing such as Touchegg and themes are constantly stuck in Orchis. I did not try KDE because would imagine its the same as sonic and trinity. Overall the concept and technologies I love but I feel the execution is poor and being a suite from the same dev, I would expect consistency across the board with installation and updates. I did not focus on the look and feel because its all changable anyway but I would have liked to have seen the default desktop wallpapers installed at least. You get 20 different variations of wolf. I then went and installed Devuan Excalibur with openrc, then installed budgie desktop followed by xlibre. It took about thirty minutes. To install a Vendefoul distro and get it right can take an hour plus. I had none of the errors or extra work in Devuan in comparison with Vendefoul. The feeling I did get with Vendefoul was similar to having an Artix setup with the AUR enabled, you just dont know when an update is going to come down from Vendefoul or Devuan that will bork the system. I found it easier to configure Devuan myself to a similar spec as Vendefoul. I do see a place for this distro but the dev would have to clean up the images and actively monitor for conflicts that may bork the system. I felt they are a destabilised version of Devuan at present. I did see that a previous reviewer did comment on the config.sh issue on a previous release to the ones I tried, so my guess is that the dev does not read the feedback here because the issue is still there which is a shame because sonicde would be great. I do appreciate the effort and acknowledge it but right now I would not call it ready for primetime and will be sticking with Devuan. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 12 reader reviews of Vendefoul Wolf...