Help and support

For when you need some hand-holding.

morpheusarch is one of the two distros in this Roundup that doesn’t have any sort of help information of its own. You do get a brief illustrated guide on Lindiag’s Github page, but there are no forum boards or mailing lists on which to seek help, so this distro is only designed for people who want to use the bundled recovery tools on an Arch base.

ALT Linux Rescue isn’t any better in that it only gets a single page on the ALT Linux website, which lists the distro’s capabilities and some of the marquee utilities. There are Russian forums and mailing lists for the main ALT Linux distribution, but the Rescue edition doesn’t have any official support avenues.

In sharp contrast, AIO System Rescue Toolkit has as a detailed FAQ with a list of all the utilities and a couple of videos to help you find your way around the distro. There are no forum boards, but the developer has created a page on the website where users can post questions.

Systemrescuecd’s website hosts a quick-start guide as well as detailed instructions on basic and advanced use. There are also

instructions for experienced campaigners, such as the guide on how to make a custom version and backing up data from an unbootable Windows computer.

With a tutorial section wiki and a detailed FAQ designed to familiarise users with the distro, UBCD surpasses its competition by a long way in this regard. The tutorial section, however, is just a pointer to a long list of user-contributed tutorials curated from the forum boards, so it could still be a little more friendly. The wiki has a list of all the tools in the distro, along with useful notes on their capabilities.