When comparing PureOS vs Siduction, the Slant community recommends Siduction for most people. In the question“What is the best laptop OS?” Siduction is ranked 23rd while PureOS is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Siduction is:
Apt/Aptitude, debconf or the alternatives system.
Specs
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Pros
Pro PureBrowser and TOR
PureBrowser is a modified version of Firefox that comes with security focused plugins. There is also a copy of TOR installed in the OS by default.
Pro You can download and install it, without the need to purchase their laptop
PureOS is available from their site for free for anyone to use, no need to purchase any of their laptops in order to check out the OS which is a tweaked build of the Trisquel distro.
Pro Default install on a free, open source laptop
PureOS is the default OS installed on the Purism Librem laptops.
Pro Debian based
Apt/Aptitude, debconf or the alternatives system.
Pro Updates are slow, but stable. It is based on Debian after all.
It uses Unstable per default so it is still some kind of stable since all dangerous packages are tested in experimental first.
Pro Secure Boot support
It supports secure boot which is great for LiveCDs and dual boot systems.
Cons
Con No mobile installation
You cant install pure os on a android phone.
Con Slower updates
Updates are slower than an unmodified Debian.
Con Hardware recognition is bad compared to Ubuntu.
Siduction won't install any non-free drivers by default.
