Project: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Version: 2019.03.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-15
Votes: 1
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I give it a 10/10 because once you finally get it set up working the system runs great, lightweight and fast. No compromises on freedom which is the best part.
However, like the other reviewers say, the ISO will not boot on my Thinkpads. I had to use the Arch Linux ISO to install the base system and then migrate to Parabola after.
I applaud the efforts of the hacker team for all their work and staying true to the four freedoms. Be warned this is not a beginner distro. Try this after you are comfortable with Arch.
Just remember this is a small community. The packages are being updated frequently thanks to Bill and the other hackers but conversation is slow and information is sparse.
Guess that means we have to get in and contribute.
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Project: Zorin OS
Version: 15.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-12-14
Votes: 0
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Thought I would take a look and see how it works for me.. it has a nice look overall, however, it is very windowy.. things I can do in my daily driver (MX) I can't do in 15.1 (xfce) so much like I feel it restricts me from changing the DE to suit me.. simple things like moving the taskbar (if possibe) wasn't organic. By that I mean right click on task bar does nothing (even widows does "something") It's polished I will give it that but, not for me
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Project: NomadBSD
Version: 1.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-13
Votes: 1
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I actually was enjoying using this BSD on a *persistant* flashdrive. It's too rare to be able to test a 'live' version of a distro of any kind and be able to use it for several hours straight only to reboot into it later and all your work is gone.
Because this is one of those rare persistant live versions, it gets a perfect 10 for that. Period.
Openbox...well, it's okay, but it makes it far too difficult for me to put a few apps I honestly truly enjoy using on it, like krusader, audacious, kate, and kipi-plugins, kim4 (those latter two for the right-click menu of the mouse combined with pacpl installed on the system so that I can do a huge number of things with images and music files so easily).
Other than that, it was fun to use, but unfortunately was a little slow opening apps, even on my AMD FX-8350.
Only one thing though really bummed me out and will keep me from using it anymore is the fact that no matter what I installed that was supposed to fix it, I couldn't see my two hard drives on my system, both with Slackware Linux (One is 14.2 x86, the other 14.2 x64). I wanted to bring over several files and folders to use on the NomadBSD, but I couldn't find my hard drives, so it was a deal breaker right there.
I really was looking forward to getting a BSD I could use as a main OS, since linux distro's are screwing up more and more by going with that garbage known as 'systemd'. That's just my opinion of things 'linux' presently. NomadBSD looked promising because it wasn't going to make me jump through fiery hoops just to get a DE and UI on it to make it usable for plain ol' dummies like me who have too hard a time trying to remember cli commands anymore and have too many things I like doing online that require a UI app of some sort, etc.
Hopefully this one problem will get fixed in the next version of this app.
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Project: Univention Corporate Server
Version: 4.4-3
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-12-13
Votes: 1
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Worst Linux Distro ever used. We gave them a try on some test servers, but we switched back to CentOS quick. We missed our freedom in configuration and the documentation is only surface scratching. If one has problems to implement a SAMBA AD DC he should learn the stuff instead of rely on some click click wannabe deployment from a vendor.
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Project: PCLinuxOS
Version: 2019.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-13
Votes: 6
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This is like meeting up with a old friend. WiFi works at the start. Even in Live Mode. In fact, I've never had a problem with WiFi on PCLinuxOS going back 10 years. (WifFi never woks for me with any BSD distro)
The only reason I stopped using PC was they dropped dropped Gnome 2. I returned when they offered Mate, and it's great to be back.
PCLinux is fast, simple, stable, and powerful. A lot like Linux Lite, my other favorite distro. You can't go wrong with those two, or Mint.
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Project: LXLE
Version: 18.04.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-12
Votes: 0
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Installed on a non up-to-date machine 1G RAM,CPU Intel atom 1,6gHz
Ist works fast ,it's complète,easy to install and moreover it's beautiful.....
If the sound was not muted at each reboot -very annoying- it will be perfect...
Note :sound matter for this machine (asus EeePc r105d) is very common for plenty of distros (mint,lite,peppermint,void,bodhi,trisquel,kanotix.......etc) and I am not expecting clearing this matter within few months.
For sure I keep it.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-12
Votes: 3
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Sensacional sistema, a ideologia do trabalho é incrível. Sinto falta de algumas coisas para me permitir personalizar o terminal como temas externos por exemplo e possibilidade simples de aplicar um modo dark nele, mas isso se resolveu bem com seu próprio Tweak.
O navegador Epiphany em algumas páginas apresenta um crash e a navegação nela é interrompida.
Mas em conjunto, me surpreendeu, meu computador meio antigo e fraco agrade pela total compatibilidade com os hardwares, mal posso esperar para instala ló em meu futuro notebook.
Muito bom não vir cheio de aplicativos ou joguinhos que eu não usaria, vejo isso como liberdade de escolha.
Designer impressionantemente lindo e no meu ponto de vista os apps curados são uma excelência.
Uma sugestão aqui que deixo é que para futuramente usuários poderem criar uma conta para o sistema, logar na loja de apps, poder avalia -lós e ter como recuperar lós logando em uma nova instalação ou formatação, isso também seria fantástico.
Meus parabéns que continuem assim, pois ao meu ver Elementary consegue entregar muito do que eu sempre senti falta no Linux.
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Project: Peppermint OS
Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-12
Votes: 2
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I have a hp stream 13 paperweight which at the time was running windows 10.
I tried all ubuntu based distros and could not get any of them to work on it until I found peppermint.
This thing installs great and truely works out of the box.
The interface is highly customizable and I was able to set beautiful transitions.
The only issue I envountered was with the external sd card not mounting which turned out to be one package not working properly and stopped the os from reading the partition table. I reinstalled the package and it started working imediately.
It actually only uses 512MB ram at idle and under pressure with three chrome tabs playing youtube videos playing only uses 1GB ram.
The stream only has 2 GB of ram and 32GB sMMC drive. After os and apps, it took 10 GB. My sd card has 67GB of disk.
This os turned my brick into a fully functioning laptop and is really quick too.
It comes with the standard firfox etc... but these are easily replaced as it uses the ubuntu repositories and is based off lubuntu.
Great piece of software.
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Project: Pearl Linux OS
Version: 7.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-12-12
Votes: 0
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I've tried several versions of Pearl: Pearl MATE, Pearl Desktop, Pearl XFCE. Great visuals, great promise, somewhat of a letdown.
It seems each version has their own unique issues, each one being less-than-perfect in its own way. One niggling glitch is that on installation it defaults to the developer's name as the profile name, then once installed it gives an error because it can't find the developer's folder for downloads.
I think that was on the MATE version. On MATE, my laptop's touchscreen didn't work but the touchpad driver allowed tap-to-click. On Pearl Desktop, the touchscreen worked but the tap-to-click wasn't even an option in the touchpad settings.
On one, after updating, the bottom half of my display went black. Reverting to the older version (in boot options) worked great (for a whie), but the newer kernel options didn't.
I finally gave up and went to Peach OSI and then to Modicia (neither of those are perfect, but slightly better than Pearl). Pearl is great for playing around, maybe as a 2nd boot option, but not to be relied upon for a stable platform.
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Project: Kubuntu
Version: 19.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-12
Votes: 8
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I found kubuntu to be a good system. In terms of speed, in my opinion, the same as in opensuse leap or kde neon. Stable - although here it is best to open suse and finally kde neon (maybe young age or maybe that you have to play a lot of programs and they are not well folded). It has everything out of the box as well as opensuse leap. On my laptop opensuse and kubuntu the most responsive and nice to use.
Are there any failures? To be honest there are some minor technical aspects in all of them but it doesn't interfere with everyday use.
I use to browse the site, bank, operate my own site. I only install keepass, filezilla, kolourpaint, hplip printer, inxi.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-11
Votes: 6
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I was a full time mint user several years ago and always loved it, because it worked out of the box, was extremely user friendly and came with all the programs I needed without being bloated. Only left it for full debian with xfce and later openbox, when I felt ready to experiment a bit/ learn more about linux.
Now I made some friends and family members try linux for the first time and of course mint was my choice of distro for them. I was not disappointed, everything I experienced with the older versions still holds true for 19.2 - firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice (three programs, that, honestly, almost everybody uses anyway) are there, you get an archive program, mediaplayer, pdf reader, media playback works fine, printers and other hardware were immediately recognized in all cases, there is a very intuitive software center, and so on - everything that is needed and not a single bit too much. Cinnamon also looks great and is familiar enough for longtime windows users.
tldr - great distro, recommended for everyone, especially those new to the linux world.
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Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-11
Votes: 1
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I am a distro-hopper for 2 years. This is maybe my 5th arch installation, it was my hobby that hopping another distro. However I decided to stick with Arch Linux. Because I though it is the strongest. I like my packages being up to date.
I like reading wiki documents. I like doing things manually. I like text editors other than IDE's. I like keep things simple.
AUR is so good. I think all live iso packages should be included in base, such as wifi tools, netctl, dialog, wpa_supplicant for not make a shock the user who is succeed all steps of installation process ( I know in archwiki there is a warning about it.)
Thank you so much to community of Arch.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-11
Votes: 0
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It is excellent, beautiful and quite stable OS.
None of Ubuntu, Mint, MX, OpenSUSE or even Manjaro doesn't support ethernet Intel E1000 that is embedded in the motherboard of my desktop. Elementary - does do it out of the box!
Also youtube videos and streams just working in my Yandex-browser (chrome-like). I've never saw that in distros listed above.
There are some issues that cannot be solved without tweaks including desktop folder. But it is not a price for very good stability and a very great taste of designers that are creating Elemetay's appearence. It has a really enjoing interface. Keep going please!
It is a sort of work that should be payed. Even it is a free software. Developers made a real thing.
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 19.11.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-11
Votes: 9
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This is the first distro that I have ever given a 10/10 review. I started using ArcoLinux XFCE, which was very easy on resources especially on a 19 year old Dell XPS M1530 with an NVIDIA card to boot! And everything worked.
When I purchased my new Dell XPS 15, the first thing I did was to wipe it clean and install ArcoLinuxB-Plasma. To my surprise the distro used only 200MB more memory than the XFCE version.The 8 cores are flat lined until you start to compile or perform audio/video editing and then they snap to life.
It comes loaded with all the basic software and more, maybe to much, but as a developer, it had "All the right stuff" out of the box.
I've always been an Arch fan due to it's highly configurable options, (roll your own), and stability, but ArcoLinux is the best of breed.
I'm very happy with the distro and I think you will be too. :~)
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.2
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-12-11
Votes: 3
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I have been a huge Mint fanboy from version 13 till now at 19.2. Mint team has always targeted regular desktop users where many distros go more for advanced users and developers. Mint has been one of the very few distros that "just work" on about any hardware I have ever owned. As many others, on my Linux journey I have learned some about computers. I have to rate Mint a bit lower now due to their dependence on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu as a base is fairly solid, however the Ubuntu installer is where things get a bit out of whack. The installer will not let you custom partition and have full disk encryption with llvm at the same time. You must use the auto install to get llvm and full disk encryption. In turn this prevents the user from over-provisioning a SSD. If you want to over-provision you have to live without llvm encryption and vise-versa. Debian allows you to FDE using llvm and set the partition sizes as you like allowing you to over-provision. It is still debatable if over-provision is worth it now days but it is a nice option.
The next issue, Ubuntu uses a swap file that is too small for hibernation. Hibernation is needed to keep you from loosing work if your laptop battery dies. (you really don't need it on desktops). Again you can set up a larger swap partition or file in Debian and other distros and throw it into your encrypted volume group. You can do this upon install with Mint but because of the Ubuntu installer you have to give up llvm and FDE in order to customize partitions. I hope this all made some sense. When Mint decides to boot Ubuntu or use a different installer I cannot recommend it for mare advanced setups. And no, LMDE is not an answer as they are still using Stretch packages (old stable).
Thanks.
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Project: Slackware Linux
Version: 14.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-10
Votes: 6
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I have been a Linux user since 2000. I never dared to install Slackware because I read that it does not verify package dependencies. But 2 years ago I made my first installation and it really is one of the best distros I've used.
Slackware does not have problems with the internet connection, you just have to configure it with the appropriate option when installing it. For example, Internet connections are managed by Networkmanager.
PROS: solid as a rock. Very fast and with a very low consumption ram. Excellent documentation Updates with new versions of packages, not patched packages.
CONS: It's not really a con but it's not a distribution for novice users.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 2
Date: 2019-12-10
Votes: 8
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Looks good, feels bad. It's very quirky. Missing a lot of the basics you find in just about every distro or corporate OS.The repository is limited but you can find what you need outside of that via Flatpak or Snap. That being said, I wouldn't recommend for beginners as there is too much setup to make it ready. Install elementary OS Tweaks to get the ball rolling (not GNOME tweaks). No issues with missing hardware.
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Project: Artix Linux
Version: 2018.10.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-10
Votes: 7
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Installed the MATE/LXDE 2019-06 ISO. Everything works out of the box, even encrypted root, and the system is FAST! The default application set covers most average users' needs, as it contains a balanced set of internet, audio, video, graphics and office applications. Should one need something more specialized, s/he can use a non-community edition which installs a basic LXQt desktop and build up from there.
Artix has got 4 repositories which correspond to the Arch ones as follows: [system]->[core], [world]->[extra], [galaxy]->[community] and [lib32]->[multilib], plus the testing and staging versions (aptly named [gremlins] and [goblins]). The [system] repo contains everything from [core] and [world] most from [extra]; [galaxy] contains everything that in [community] depends on systemd, plus some more packages. The Arch repos (minus [core]) are by default enabled and available, to supply missing packages and of course the AUR is also at our disposal.
OpenRC is fast and reliable, in fact all 3 init systems Artix supports are more secure than systemd, which has got numenous confirmed CVEs and suffers from scope creep.
The forum is very friendly and almost all issues raised there are marked as [SOLVED]. The same applies to their Telegram group.
The MATE/LXDE community ISO is based on the GTK toolkit, but the developers have done an excellent job integrating QT-based applications into the pleasant, easy-on-the-eyes, default dark look of the desktop, using a home-brewed theme that achieves a flawless uniform appearance. Having tested the Plasma/LXQt version too, QT-based this one, I can tell the same uniform look also applies there.
Updates roll out fast, only a few hours after Arch. Kudos!
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20191205
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-12-10
Votes: 2
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Comparison to opensuse leap
Benefits:
1. few unnecessary programs uploaded.
2.Possibility to install everything.
3. Fairly stable but minor errors occur every day.
Disadvantages:
1. The old foundation of ubuntu
2.Old software (e.g. libreofice 6.0 a in Leap 6.2)
3. "Incomplete system" while Opensuse leap has everything that is most important, including the possibility of reversing (snapshots).
4. Less convenient to use than opensuse.
5. Not as stable and slower than opensuse leap, which is very stable.
Summary: Opensuse leap is a different league, Neon doesn't get there.
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Project: Void
Version: 20191109
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-10
Votes: 14
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Really good distribution, it uses runit (which is extremely simple) instead of systemd, fast to boot and fast to work with, I've been using it with dwm and also bspwm on my emachine, no problems so far, it only uses 120MB of ram (including the torrent daemon, mpd, polybar and some other stuff), really snappy, the package manager (xbps) also has some interesting features, it's quite fast and the repositories have most of the software I need
and let me say, the TUI installer is fantastic, it makes the installation more convenient and still gives you enough information, a good balance between GUI installers and just installing arch from the terminal
overall, a solid distribution for those that want a stable, systemd-free and snappy distribution
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Project: Emmabuntüs
Version: DE3-1.00
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-09
Votes: 1
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I tried a lot of distros and EmmaDE is (by far) the most easy, to install, use and maintain.
It simply works (almost perfectly since DE3) out of the box.
XFCE black environment is good to preserve your eyes ;-)
I would have give a 10 for a EmmaDE version:
* semi-rolling release (Debian testing)
* systemd free (hopefully with sudden DE-Dev. enlightenment)
* less softwares (especially redundant ones!) or at least possibility to choose during install.
I definitely recommend it for newbies to Linux and use on old computer or "overseas".
I think some of below ratings are unfair.
Some sounds like judging a Ferrari not good enough for off-roading...
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Project: CentOS
Version: 7.7.1908
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-09
Votes: 2
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Moved from Open Suse when I needed to stand up some VM's Currently using qemu/KVM I have set up two servers, each running 4 VM's. Most are also Centos but have a couple of Windows boxes and a Debian. Excellent environment for Linux development, I don't need powerful test/development boxes so didn't expect really fast performance, but I have been very happy with what I getting from three year old hardware, very impressive. Also rock solid, zero issues. The ability to quickly spin up VM's is wonderful.
Would have to agree that this probably isn't the best desktop/laptop distro. But having a stable free distro that I can use on a pile of slightly older hardware and get enterprise results and stability makes this the perfect test environment for me. A few of the tools we have used in Centos environments are Splunk, Apache, Hadoop, large Postgres databases and large AI models written in Python and R.
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Project: ROSA
Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-09
Votes: 5
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An excellent very stable system with lots of useful applications ready out of the box.
Installation was easy and intuitive. I loved the automatic partitioning. All hardware was identified correctly. Everything just works. Looks very nice too.
After installing it as the second OS on my laptop (dual boot), I found that I hardly ever boot into Windows. Highly recommended!
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Project: Debian
Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-09
Votes: 29
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Debian is the among the best operating systems I have used. Debian version 10 is no exception.
PROS: perfectly stable (even the "testing" version is perfectly stable); fast; flexible; easy to customize; has excellent documents and manuals; has very good hardware support (both for old hardware and newer). The "apt-tools/aptitude-tools"
are powerful, for users willing to learn how to run them.
Easy to update, upgrade: "apt-get update" > "apt-get dist-upgrade", apt-get install (package), apt-get remove/purge (package). I would recommend using SYNAPTIC package manager > apt-get update > apt-get install synaptic
CONS: no cons so far, except it can be a bit boring to run systems that you have to play with carelessly to find a "problem" to solve. If you run it normally it can be "boringly good", no problems to play with.
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Project: Kubuntu
Version: 14.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-08
Votes: 2
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Purchased Samsung 32" Curved Screen at Costco for $149 with a VGA to HDMI converter from Wal-Mart for $16.95 and Bingo....Plug N Play looks better than a $2000 Mac. PC is a Dell Mid Tower Optiplex 755. Have had absolutely no problems with this and was amazed that it took off pulling the added graphics card and using on board VGA. I set it up with Glx-Dock / Cairo-Dock which looks like a Mac but better because Kubuntu lets you customize the top added panel where I have added 42 applications along with a digital clock, hard drive space meter, dictionary, USB manager, 10 desktops, window list, six utilities and down arrow with three additional as well as a color picker. The Glx-Doc/Cairo-Dock has 22 panel items, is pop up and is superb! I was going to upgrade to the new Kubuntu 19.10 but frankly it's hard to improve on perfection.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-08
Votes: 15
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No other OS I've installed and worked with is as fluid, well designed and completely user oriented as Linux Mint, and that includes everything from Windows 3.0 to 10 on my own hardware, to Macs as my graphics machines at work.
Started with Mint back in '06. Bounced around a bit over the years trying different distros, some OK, others not so much. Measuring these against one another I always ended up looking to Mint to do what I needed in a way that was free of concern, made good sense, and always worked with me instead of against me.
Over the years the Mint development team as proven its worth in the distro they offer and the improvements they make release to release. Mint 19.2 has been a marvel of efficiency, and the beta of Mint 19.3, which I'm running in a virtual machine, once again brings new improvements that further illustrate why Mint has been an unbeatable fixture at the top of every list for 'best of the best' when in comes to a near perfect 'just works out of the box' desktop OS for going on 14 years now.
If you haven't already, give Mint a try. If you're like multiple millions of Mint users world wide you'll end up singing its praises as well.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-12-08
Votes: 0
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ENGLISH:
Seriously? ... the interface of this OS is pretty good, unfortunately the positive stops there ... the software is old and not up to date, for example: Firefox version 70, and the NVIDIA driver in 390 lol, the system is slow whereas if I use other OS with the same PC, I find systems that consume only 400 MB of RAM, I spent 1 hour, looking on forums, how to make functional Steam, with "Linux Mint" ... for gaming go your way, if it's for basic use: read mails, internet, watch videos, it will be OK.
FRANCAIS:
Sérieusement?...l' interface de cet OS est assez belle, malheureusement le positif s' arrête là...les logiciels sont vieux et pas à jour, par exemple: Firefox en version 70, et le driver NVIDIA en 390 lol, le système est lent alors que si j' utilise d'autres OS avec le même PC, je trouve des systèmes qui consomment seulement 400 Mo de RAM, j' ai passé 1 heure, à chercher sur les forums, comment rendre fonctionnel Steam, avec "Linux Mint"...pour le gaming passez votre chemin, si c' est pour un usage basique: lire des mails, internet, regarder des vidéos, ce sera à peine correct.
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Project: Slackware Linux
Version: 14.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-08
Votes: 8
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I like Slackware because it is stable and allows me to install new versions of some packages because I have all the development tools to do it.
Another aspect that I like is the combination of an extremely stable base system and a very varied amount of packages that can be installed from slackbuilds.
The only thing I recommend is to read the installation instructions. I have followed them and everything has worked with high performance. At the beginning I could not connect to the internet by cable and the wifi did not work. And the solution was to mark an option when installing the operating system. You just had to read.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 0
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Nice if you don't do much with your PC. The window manager theme is barely compatible with apps from outside the AppCentre, so they look pretty bad. They're not as easily accessible as in other Ubuntu-based distros.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 17
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Solid distro. Great if you're a fan of XFCE or want a newbie friendly distro. One great feature is that the distro has great hardware support without the need to install any drivers. This makes it good for anyone getting into linux as you don't have to tinker around in the graphical settings let alone the terminal to get hardware such as broadcom adapters to work.
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Project: Artix Linux
Version: 2018.10.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 8
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I'm a long time Archlinux user who is fed up with the mission creep of systemd. I am addicted to the AUR. After trying many other distros I heard Luke Smith mention this on one of his videos and wanted to give it a spin. Excellent Arch-Like distro. It uses the excellent runit init system which is blazing fast and easy to use. Runit is what systemd should have been, a fast modern init system. Pacman works just as fast and well as it does on Arch. I use the AUR tool "Yay" and have had no problems with it either. I have had one small instance where I needed to change a build script, but it was easy to figure out with a little Google-Fu. If you want Arch, and would like to avoid the systemd mission creep, Artix is for you. My hat is off to the developers. I should mention you may choose your init system as they offer OpenRC, Runit, and S6. I prefer runit but they all have strong points.
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Project: Ubuntu MATE
Version: 18.10
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 0
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The more I use it the more I realize it's a collection of half assed unreliable (but nice looking) software:
The Gnome Panels: They crash constantly, don't place themselves above other windows properly, don't resize themselves properly on monitor and resolution changes, don't respond to half the clicks on the outermost pixel, the app menus don't react properly even when the cursor moves over them, etc...
The Plank Dock: Appears and disappears rapidly whenever auto-hide is enabled and you move the cursor toward the screen edge. Whether you end up with a visible dock is down to luck. Useless.
These are the two most important pieces of software on a desktop system and MATE fails to deliver on both. Apps regularly lock you out of the desktop in fullscreen because the very things that should be available to you at all times, i.e. the panels and the dock, aren't.
Also, the error reporter gets in your face constantly. Ironically enough it often crashes itself, or throws an error when you try to interact with it, for instance when you try to select Never Send Crash Reports. Not allowed, apparently.
Ending with a good thing: the F12 pulldown terminal.
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Project: Salix
Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 2
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I used Slackware many years ago. Salix OS was rated as the Best of Breed in the Linux magazine titled Linux Made Simple. Since using Slackware I thought I give it a try under a Virtualbox. I was was impressed. The install took me back a few years ago with a command line install. However, after the install the upgrade was fast and the desktop was light and nimble. Hurrah, no bloat. LibreOffice and other apps I use were part of the package which was great. The graphical package manger is like Synaptic or you can use slapt-get from the command line. Great job on the distro.
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Project: Mageia
Version: cauldron
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 65
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I have a small notebook Samsung NP-N230. As I had no great use of it any more because it was too slow I decided to switch Windows 7 originally installed and to try Mageia cauldron (8.0) on it. I chose lxqt desktop considering Plasma is too heavy for that kind of computer. Everything had gone well during installation.
I fell now a better speed also it's not a Ferrari ;) And I've been very impressed that cauldron developing version is fully operational four month after the freeze of Mageia7. I didn't know that Mageia can be used as a rolling release!!!
It has been a very good experience and that's why I rated it 10.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 1
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It's a good OS. The only problem is that the "AppCenter" is limited. It doesn't have a lot of programms, and the programms inside aren't the last version ( as LibreOffice for example ). You need to install gdebi and/or gnome download center.
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-07
Votes: 2
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I installed this onto our HP Pavilion 23, no problems. It only has a dual core processor, but Solus is running really great. It has integrated graphics and the distro works out of the box with it. No need to even install drivers. I'm running with 4gb of ram - and it's running great. It has no glitches on start-up or anything, everything in hunky dory. There is no best distro, but Solus is worth a try, even to see how it works on your hardware.
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Project: Slackware Linux
Version: 14.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-06
Votes: 5
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Slackware is a truly elegant and solid distro. It is very important to read the documentation well first: there are a few difficult passages, but they are overcome with a little patience. It is important to verify the automatic configuration of the network manager during installation, then you log in with the root login and once you enter the desktop environment with startx command (I chose KDE because it is the best equipped with software) you create a home login with the command via the terminal adduser. Another step is the choice of a mirror of the repositories to be selected with nano editor, from there with the slackpkg commands you can update the various programs already installed, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. As office KDE releases Calligra, which I find a bit behind some writer functions, so I decided to try installing Libreoffice through the repository enabling program Sbopkg: I found Libreoffice 6.2.8 and I was very pleasantly satisfied, so I also installed Smplayer. Slackware may seem a difficult distro for inexperienced Linux users, but on the other hand it also allows you to study and learn a lot about Unix and with a little bit of application I was very satisfied.
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Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-06
Votes: 0
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Been using Arch for over a year as an everyday OS and a half year in my job where I exchanged Ubuntu 18.04 to Arch. And what can I say about it? I haven't looked back even once.
As a Software Engineer, any compilation issues or setting up development environment, can easily be managed by Arch package manager Pacman or AUR repositories, which I cannot say the same about Ubuntu package manager.
Also, Arch taught me a LOT about Linux and it helped me to discover such a cool community of Linux users.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20191205
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-06
Votes: 17
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I have adopted KDE Neon as my go-to distro for two main reasons.
1) It is a lean distro with few unnecessary addons
2) I'm a glutton for tweaking and messing with the look and feel of my distro, I love playing with all the bells and whistles, LOL.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 6
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Mint is and always has been stable, easy to use and none frightening to ex-windows users.
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Project: KNOPPIX
Version: 8.6.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 0
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Really good distro and was surprised it runs well on my older hardware (Intel Core 2 E6600) with only 2GB RAM. Haven't been able to get the Knoppix Flash to make a bootable thumb drive. Keeps giving me the "failed to load ldlinux.c32" error. Tried several different things, but so far no luck. This is the reason for the "8" instead of a higher rating.
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Project: Puppy Linux
Version: 8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 3
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It is wonderful. The fastest operating system, with excellent applications.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 54
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J'utilise MX depuis plusieurs années pour sa simplicité, sa solidité, sa stabilité, sa clarté, je l'ai installé sur un petit ssd 120g et il tourne à merveille ! Mon proc est un Ryzen 5 2600, CM Gaming et 16go de ram et une Radeon RX 580 Armor facilite largement sa rapidité d'execution. Au démarrage il ne consome QUE 500mo de ram tres bien aussi pour les petites machines. C'est un excellent OS, je recommande. Merci.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 17.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 80
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I installed this on a Dell Inspiron 1318 (from 2006), EVERYTHING WORKED OUT OF THE BOX. Sound, wifi (even though it is a broadcom chip, no issues there). Solid.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 17.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 6
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Linux Mint runs on all our deskop and notebook computers as a parallel installation to preinstalled windows. It runs stable and very easy to use. The windows os are only used when windows specific research is to do. All every day work is done under Mint. Installation is much easier and faster than a windows installation. After installation there is much less to do than in case of wndows to get a full adapted and safe OS. Version switching is easy - no need to change your behavior (no stress as in case of any windows changes). In praxis this means high productivity. Installation of new software from the repositories is easy and much faster done compared to windows. The update management is perfect - you see there are updates - you see what updates there are - you decide when and what you update. And updates are much faster done compared to windows. In general I can say: Linus Mint is what windows could have been if it had been consequently developed - a ripe, stable and nearly perfect os.
General conclusion: Linux Mint is recommended.
My background: I started with Commodore pet, then CP/M, DOS, WIndows (main os until Win 2000), switched to Ubuntu (from 6.06 on until 10,04), since then several versions of Mint. I'm checking new OS/Distros in virtual machines, sometimes I use one of our computers to make a test installation.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 1
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User friendly & versatile. In my years of multiple & varied Linux O.S. experiences, Elementary is one of my top nine favorites. {^_^}
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Project: Linux Lite
Version: 4.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 5
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Pretty awesome. Linux Lite is my distribution of choice for two of my machines (my third machine is an HP Pavilion with a wonky implementation of UEFI so I use Xubuntu (which is cool for this machine)). Anyway, the stability of LL is impressive. There have been exactly zero problems with LL from my novice users.
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 2
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Hi,i have a HP laptop and no problems connecting to wifi.
Its a very old laptop=Compaq 6910p,i am writing this comment using this laptop connected to wifi.
Every thing works fine.Cheers
Sorry for bad english :)
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 1
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Slow and jenky.
I click the Applications on the top left corner and it can take a few seconds and even a few clicks to get it to open... on a fresh install!
A right click in Firefox, for example, can cause the menu to show up miles away from where you clicked.
Still doesn't meet the basics of an OS. Meaning, shouldn't have to install 3rd party software to do things you should be able to do (e.g. minimize button, folders/shortcuts on desktop, double click to open).
Speaking of double click... by default it is a single click to open folders but there are areas where a double click is required. Where's the standard?
It's user friendly but not.
It's good but also terrible.
It's a yin and yang OS and not for me.
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Project: ROSA
Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-05
Votes: 6
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Excellent software that picks up all needed drivers etc and runs how Linux is suppossed to run. No glitches, just "Does what it says on the tin."
No ringing home like some other Linux OS's.
I have tried dozens (30+) of Linux flavours over the years and have been disappointed with them all for one reason or another.
Try it, you will like it!
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