Custom tools

What makes them special?

Feren OS features a couple of home-grown utilities. The

Transfer Tool can be used to back up data from crucial directories such as Home, Pictures, Documents, Downloads, etc. You can similarly restore data using the tool with a single click. The other native tool is the Web Browser Manager, which can install additional web browsers with a single click.

Emmabuntüs’s welcome screen is quite capable. It identifies a number of useful tools across different genres, such as Maintenance, Printing, etc. While it offers Dejadup as the default backup utility, you can also install Systemback, which performs much the same functionality with a click from the welcome screen.

Sparkylinux ships with APTUS, a custom graphical software management tool to help you install software and perform system upgrades. The project has also created various other graphical tools and utilities, many as frontends for controlling commandline apps. These aren’t part of the default installation, but you can get them from the software repositories. Popular ones of these include Sparky-backup-sys, which can be used to create a live image of your current Sparky installation, including all additional installed packages. Q4OS’S welcome screen provides the option to install multimedia codecs. The Desktop Profiler tool can be used to choose the desktop environment and default application set you want. There are only three options for now. You can choose between the full featured desktop, basic desktop or the ultimately minimal desktop. The welcome screen can similarly be used to enable desktop effects and change the kickoff menu style, which we recommend you put to use if you decide to try this distro.