Artix Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Artix Linux Average rating 8.1 from 73 review(s) What are your thoughts on Artix Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 2018.10.042017.08.08 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2018.10.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-07-17 Votes: 73 Last week I got my new fitlet2 mini pc with an OEM Linux Mint preinstalled. As I didn't want to use a systemd based distro, I was looking for an alternative. I knew OpenRC already from GhostBSD so I was searching for an OpenRC based Linux. I knew very well how to handle an Arch based system from my old Manjaro installation, thus I decided to try Artix. After a couple of days with OpenRC and Artix I got very curious about the runit init system. Thus I made a second installation on an external media using the runit flavour of Artix. I am very impressed how fast runit actually is. OpenRC needed on my machine 15 seconds until the display manager was fully loaded and 10 seconds for the shutdown from a desktop. With runit it's only 8 seconds for the boot and 4 seconds for the shutdown. Wow! Also the handling of runit is even easier than OpenRC or systemd. E.g. I replaced the NetworkManager with Connman. I just installed the connman-runit package (containing the init script) with Octopi, deleted the /run/runit/service/NetworkManager link and created the replacement with 'sudo ln -s /etc/runit/sv/connmand /run/runit/service' and Connman was immediately running, completely without using any special init config tool. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: Rating: 10 Date: 2019-07-06 Votes: 58 Have used Artix plasma .iso for some time and i have to say i am very impressed with the way laptop behaves, temperatures are pretty low and fans are quiet. Pretty awesome out of the box experience, however there is pulseaudio installed by default with this iso, unlike to standard official openrc/runit lxqt .iso, there are two community editions as well and KDE/LXqT is one of them. Anyways recommending to get amazing computing experience, also there is Dark Reader addon installed by default in Firefox Browser that literally makes all reading better (and i had no idea about existence of such addon before) Nice stuff!!! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2018.10.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-06-09 Votes: 89 Well, I was looking for a systemd-free OS. I tried OpenBSD but find it to complicated for my need in use as a desktop... my fault, I know. So I tried Artix Linux (Mate "Edition" :-) ) because it seemed a useable alternative for my computer. And it installed quite fast, everything works out of the box, it's easy to update and install new programms. 10 out of 10 points for Artix Linux! They did a very good job! angus71 Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 73 reader reviews of Artix Linux...