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Review: DebLight OS 1

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 28, 2024

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DebLight starts out with a good idea, in my opinion. It takes one of the world's more popular and easy to use Linux distributions and adjusts it to try to make its parent run better on older equipment. Basically, it's Linux Mint for computers from the Windows 7 era. It's a modest goal, but a clear and (in my opinion) useful one.

DebLight is in its early stages, this was just the first stable version. As such, it's normal that this release had some rough points. There are buttons that don't do anything, an application menu that doesn't grab keyboard input when it is opened, and there are some areas where translations are inconstantly applied. There are definitely some problems scattered through the distribution, though they tend to be minor. They are mostly language-related issues. It is not uncommon to see a mixture of French and English on the screen. For instance, the update manager's main window was displayed in English when I was using it, but the preferences window for the same application displayed in French. Meanwhile the file manager displayed in English, but some folder names in my home directory were in French. As long as you can fumble your way through menus in either French or English (or sometimes both) you should have a fairly good experience, but if you don't read French then you could be in for a challenging time.

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