Feren OS is Weird - Feren OS First Look
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Today I take a look at Feren OS, an Ubuntu based distribution with KDE.
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Feren is British and we like to be different to everyone else.This distro works and runs well and the dev is young and does it on his own.
HaHa, you British have a way of doing that just like us USA Hillbillies. I know my mother-in-law was from Yorkshire and she was a hell of a cook!... LOL
LLAP
Bri'ish*
I used Feren OS as my jumping off point to get into Linux. I talked to one of the developers via Twitter and felt that they selected the various slices of Linux from other distros (KDE, Gnome, Mint etc) that they felt eased the transition from Windows. I like Feren. I've been exploring other Linux (mostly Ubuntu and Debian based distros) and can readily reflect back on the Feren experience to offer a baseline for comparison.
You should try fedora
A couple corrections. First what I call Gnome software is apparently the Mint Software store, but I'm almost 100% sure that it's an old version of Gnome software (If not they look identical). Second, apparently, that first "transfer files to Windows" screen is meant to get people to back up their files, not transfer them immediately (the wording there could be a little clearer for sure).
Pin this so everyone can see immediately and not come at you.
@@tanmaypatel4152 Rather, don't. I hate pinned comments.
About the transfer:
I think "transfer from Windows" was there before installation, because you won't have a Windows after the installation (as long as you deleted all files on the drive and you don't have any other drives)
indeed, it says its to store the files so they can be written back once the install is complete.
Going to have to check this distro out. looks interesting to say the least.
Again see pinned comments. Apparently no one reads those. Lol
@@TheLinuxCast I wrote the comment 2 hours before the pinned comment but thanks anyway :)
@@kmmmsyr9883 oh, sorry
The Idea is to install with a live USB, but a lot of the space on most USB's will remain unused, or indeed have a second one handy to download pics, docs, and save files on. Then once Feren is up and running, it has you import them to Feren. It's a nice touch.
Once we figure things out and get everything set up it's a great experience it's like a combination of Zorin and Kubuntu exactly what some of us have looking for
Yup, never said it was bad, just odd.
15:10 rare footage of Matt laughing - 2022 colourized
This is actually probably really close to the applications I would pick if I was setting up an arch system without thinking about whether they are kde or gnome or whatever.
That’s cool. It seems odd to me but like I said to others it’s not bad.
That transfer screen is supposed to be there before installation so it can automatically be applied during install
I gusless that makes sense.
Also, it's not really that way. It's more to have people back up their files. That does explain why it's in both places, but it cold be a bit easier to understand even now that I have re-read it.
KDE 5.24 have very high RAM usage.. about 350MB more than older versions... Thx for review!
Ooo niespodziewałem się pana tutaj. Miło pana widzieć
@@pog2824 dobry ;) Konkretnych ludzi się ogląda z przyjemnością, gość ma dobre filmy
@@SwiatLinuksa pan też jest tą „konkretną osobą” tak naprawdę to pan dla mnie jest najlepszym youtuberem linuxowym w polsce
@Terminalforlife (LL) near 300MB, look at older version - they take 450-600MB idle, 5.24 800+, i tested it on real hardware too, few distros
@@pog2824 ja? Dzięki za opinie ale tak nie uważam, moja wiedza jest dość ogólna o linuksie ;)) co widać po filmach hehe
My guess is that Feren is a simulation of what if Gnome 3 went different design way... it looks like budgie, it is also a parrot, it uses nemo, gnome-software etc..., delicate blur, centered clock. It is as if someone was angry at Gnome and tried to do better gnome with KDE...
A little weird, maybe...but God is it beautiful.
The split install systems are basically for OEMs, so they can install the base system and when the user boots for the first time, the user and other related setup can be done. Don't know why they need reboot though. Fedora does this seamlessly.
With the whole transfer Windows data.... seems like it could have been solved by actually reading the text on the screen. It was crystal clear... and I have never seen it before and was rolling my eyes at your take.
Already corrected in a pinned comment that could easily be read.
@@TheLinuxCast 😼
I believe FerenOS picks the best software from different distros ;)
From what I read on DistroWatch and seen on a couple of other videos, Feren was based on Linux Mint originally with Cinnamon. That is why you see LM's Store, File Manager, and other items from LM. I would assume they kept those programs to maintain consistency after they switched to Plasma as their desktop environment.
5:37 Sh*t, you scared me and made me go check whether something had happened to DT
I enjoyed ferren
I got one strong reason, why it is an awesome idea to split the installer options in such way.
Whenever you have an error, fuckup, bug, your computer sneezes during the installation process for whatever goddamn undiscovered issue.
THINK.
I had this problem many times with some distros (arch based)
I would die, if I would have to repeat inputing all this boring data again and again when something fucked up.
Splitting the installer is a smart move. very smart if you want to repair, correct, improve and troubleshoot.
You said "a strong and complicated password in memory of DT", is he dead!?
Lol no. But you weren't the only one to ask that.
@@TheLinuxCast OMG!!! It's the man himself! I love that you are on Odysee!
Well, the split part of the installer meant that, theoretically, someone else (an OEM or a friend) can install Feren OS and then the user can finish the setup on their own. I think it's neat actually. I dunno, maybe because I just haven't tested THAT many distro, I just don't feel it's weird. A quirk to be sure, but not as weird as you felt like it is. A shame that there wasn't a longer look on how it included a TON of themes and desktop layouts tho - I think it's the only KDE distro that has themes with desktop layout switcher OOTB?
I wasn’t questioning the split nature if it. Just the restart after the second half. That’s the odd part.
@@TheLinuxCast The only reason it restarts is because the computer name change. If I knew how to change the hostname (aka the computer name) on the fly, the restart wouldn't be there anymore.
Transfer tool lets you save your data before installing and then restore it when you’re done.
As I said with ten other people, see pinned comment.
Dude, read the text man!
"If you backed up your files using the Transfer Tool before..."
Already corrected in a pinned comment. Dude.
When I first seen Feren OS, it was 3 years ago i think and he had Cinnamon, KDE, Gnome and one other don't remember. Now this is a (was) 14 year old one person/Dev that is so Uber Smart it's scary! That was 3 years ago I think and he does it all to this day.
I ran his Cinnamon version until he decided to stop everything except for KDE. I think it has always been Ubuntu based, sometimes off of Mint, Solus for the Gnome I think. :-\ I will give ya some, it's odd not totally weird but I agree on Vavladie, hell I can't even spell it... LOL
He has always picked and chose software from everywhere.
Really Matt? Thunar over Nemo? REALLY? :-P
Thanks Matt!
LLAP
BTW He's is in Britain
In memory of DT? Feren is actually pretty rad aside from the ubuntu part
12:02 in the uname -a command it literally says ubuntu 20.04 lmao
Reading is hard
@@TheLinuxCast lol
So beauty distro, especially for mac theme
i discovered feren last year and i thought it's a pretty solid distro, especially friendly for windows users wanting to take the leap into linux.
Yup, never said it was bad, just a little odd.
Looks like obfuscate of machine code into a bootloader to log activity
Farron OS is a combination distro of kde and gnome if you're wondering.
SDDM causes backlight flashes during boot, so choosing LightDM might have an attempt to fix that.
That’s possible. Display Managers can be finicky.
You seem to be a little bothered that they made choices you weren’t expecting. Isn’t that a point of a distro? If all the sisters are the same then why have so many?
Never said it was bad. Idk why people don’t know the difference between weird and bad. Not the same word.
It is linux mint software store my favourite not gnome software. Thats why i like feren os than other ubuntu kde based distros because they all comes with discover
Linux mint and feren os dont have update tab in their store like gnome software or discover but they have separate update manager
Thats why i like linux mint, feren os, Manjaro because they done some things to make linux easy and great
It looks precisely like the older verision of Gnome software, because that's where it came from.
Time zone comes after
Originally I think, Feron was based on Mint, so thats probably why the seemingly strange mix of software.
Yeah I didn’t know that until after.
Installed today. Bluetooth is total crap
Feren OS makes me feel that they look software from other distors ( Mint update manager) and just smashed them together. I understand the Feren team doesn't want to have A new user to Linux be over overwhelmed with a bunch of software and setting in your face. One thing I will say is Feren OS is clean. For a new user I would pick Manjaro Deepin or Pop! OS ( Can't wait to see how Rust on POP! OS is gong to run) Just A all Around better choice to me but hey each to there own so many distros to choose from.
4:15 also MIA is the option to encrypt the partition 🙁
Oh I didn’t even notice. Should have tho
American English and British English are where they are in the list because they’re both English with an “E”.
Usually the British and American are parts are after the word English when it’s being alphabetized this way.
Two part installer reminds me of windows installer.
I run Feren as my daily driver with a Ryzen 5 machine, and it works great. A lot of the choices were for higher end systems, so if you are trying to turn your $100 Wal-Mart Celeron Laptop into a bleeding edge gaming machine, this is not the distro for you. It's resource intensive, but it rewards those with 8 GB Ram or more with a very nice experience. So far the only thing "Broken" was the Feren Store when I tried to use it to install steam. It hung up twice, and I installed it from the ever trusty and crusty Synaptic Package Manager and never looked back.
Feren feels like it's familiar enough to be easy to learn, as it took parts from several sources and feels like a marriage of KDE and XFCE to me. VLC works great for watching media, Libre Office is a solid choice for docs, and I disliked Vivaldi and it's side bar fairly intensely. Fortuneately as the video stated, changing browsers was painless. And yes, I laughed at the Video's mention that "Nobody" uses Falkon as I'm writing this on that browser. Falkon works, even if it's GUI needs a lot of polish before it looks as good as netscape navigator did before it became Firefox.
If you didn't actually follow through with the "transfer files from Microsoft Windows" it's not legit to make any comment as to what would happen if it was chosen. Too many people run through distro's in VM's when real installs on hardware should be done instead.
Okay, so I did actually go through with it, and it does exactly as I say in the pinned comment. It's a backup tool. I did make that correction already.
The reason that it has transfer from windows in the beginning
is to give people an option who are planning to use ferenos in a live environment.
Yeah, that's not what it says either. It's for backup of Windows files. The tool would then have to be rerun when the install was done, which explains why it's in both places. But the language is unclear to be sure.
me again, ferenos is based on linux mint
Not according to their website
FerenOS used to be based on Linux Mint, but later rebased itself directly on Ubuntu
@@ScribeAwoken wow I have been using ferenos for a while and never even noticed, but it is weird that they always have major updates after linux mint releases their major updates.
So much hype over obscure unstable linux distros, it is amazing how much BS there is out there when reviewing most linux distros (not yours in this case) Feren is indeed very pretty and seems A1, only one problem; the updates don't work! and I do mean what I say; they do not work! The classic release is already obsolete and I have been trying to update to the regular Feren and ended up in a very chaotic and unstable results and could not update at all and the system crashed. Feren is in my opinion unreliable. let's face it, only Linux mint is stable in the long run.
Matt i gave this vid a dislike not because of the vid, but i did not like the os at all. You done a great review of Feren os,keep it going.
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Get some exercise dude
Where’s Will Smith when you need him?
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