
Avid distrohoppers can easily see that it uses Calamares installer. An experimental “builder” ISO for expertsĪs you expect from any easy-to-use Linux distro, SpiralLinux provides a graphical installer.


Ships with a wide range of drivers to support a variety of hardware.Some key highlighting features are as follows: SpiralLinux aims to address those pain points by providing several pre-installed software, performance tweaks and proprietary drivers and codecs support. Not to forget that you’ll have to further tweak your vanilla Debian system to make it work with your hardware. Getting the right ISO itself is the first struggle. If you try installing Debian, you’ll notice a number of download options but they do not include proprietary drivers and codecs which are necessary for modern hardware (including mine).

The first question that will come to your mind is why another Debian-based distro? The core idea behind SpiralLinux is to get you a well-tuned Debian that can be used out of the box. Through this article, I’m going to walk you through the features of SpiralLinux and share my experience, so you can have a better idea of what to expect from SpiralLinux.
