StratOS Linux

Reader supplied reviews for StratOS Linux Average rating 6.0 from 3 review(s) What are your thoughts on StratOS Linux? 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: -- 2026.02.092025.12.07 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: 2026.02.09 Rating: 7 Date: 2026-02-11 Country: Thailand Votes: 1 I tried installing it via Boxes but the install failed is all it said. However on the live desktop all went well. It certainly is one of the most unique distros I've ever seen. I think more for developers than anything. The install althought it failled went well with no issues. The dev team certainly are some smart people. Trying out a distro in a vm is not a good way to judge it in my opinion. Unfortunately I don't have another sscrap pc I could test on. I tested on my Dell i7, 16gb ram and gave it 8gb of ram and 128gb of space. My coding abilities are only limited to visual basic so distros that are geared towards coding don't really interest me. I have distro hopped with the best of them in my day and still as you can see like to look at the latest although staying with my favorite distro. I liked the overall layout of the distro and used the Gnome version for testing although I'm not a Gnome fan. It was responsive and felt lightweight. I think it would appeal to a certian type of user. The devs spent a lof time and hard work on this and so deserve a lot of credit. I'm looking for an old pc to use for testing so I could give a better opinion with a real install. VM's are not a good way to judge a distro. Props again to the devs and looking forward to future imprvements. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025.12.07 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-01 Votes: 4 I installed it in my laptop, using 5 days now. It's a good OS. Installation was smooth, using GNOME version. They used Bedrock Linux to combination of Arch and Ubuntu. I happy with the combination as rock command is used to update and install software from arch/aur/flatpak/apt repository. They have option to install fedora, gentoo, kali, void etc using the brl fetch command rock --help Package managers detected: 󰱒 Pacman 󰣇 󰱒 Paru 󰣇 󰱒 Flatpak  󰱒 Apt  Usage: rock [function] [flag] Functions: install (i): Install a package - Pick the number associated with the desired package. remove (r): Uninstall package(s) - Pick the number associated with the desired package. Removes related unnecessary dependencies. info (if): Retrieve remote information about the package. Fetches information from the relevant repo. install-info (iif): Display local information about the package. Fetches information from the installed package. search (s): Search for package across configured package managers. update (u): Update all packages across package managers. Doesn't take secondary arguments. cleanup (c): Remove any unused packages. Does not accept secondary arguments. Flags: --help/-h: Display this help page. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025.12.07 Rating: 1 Date: 2026-01-25 Votes: 2 I am using virtualbox to try it out. Installer hangs with a password prompt where the user "statos" is pre-selected. It requires a password which is not to be found. Entering anything (or blank) results in me coming at the same screen. Entering "root" instead of user "stratos" prodces a black screen. The install screen show a nice pixelart, but seems cut off, or this is some art I do not understand. Documentation is very sparse, at least the installation could be documented somewhere, couldn't it? So yeah, I liked the art work but wasted one hour. Was this review helpful? Yes No