Project: Elive
Version: 3.0.4
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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Elive has great potential, it looks very nice, its fast and requires very little resources, and for me it was very easy to install, but I only used it for a short time. Unfortunately as previously mentioned Elive is built on outdated, obsolete and unsupported kernel and software.
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Project: elementary OS
Version: 5.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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PROS:
- Looks pretty OOTB
- Simple/predictable interface and settings
- Apt
- Minor configurability - Standardization reduces potential compatability issues
CONS:
- Minor configurability - Can't do much in the way of tweaking if you don't like the look/feel Particularly, for me, I can not stand having title bars on maximized windows. Can't change that here.
- Quite difficult to add repositories that the developers don't trust. (Probably good for some people, but I would like full control rather than full safety.)
- Had an issue where logging in would just return to lock screen. Literally could not get into the system at all. Fortunately I had backups of my data, so I was able to just wipe the whole thing.
OVERALL:
- Great for a linux newbie, or anyone who just likes the feel. You can do pretty much anything you need on here if you can figure out add-apt-repository. I personally prefer an environment that is lighter on resources and offers more configuration, but I really think Elementary has a great niche. As it gets better it will be more of a direct competitor with Windows/OSX as the design is attractive, it is very user-friendly, and the devs are serious about making efficient little apps that integrate perfectly in function and feel with the OS.
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 19.05.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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No ongoing issues it just work well! I pay attention to updates and I also update kernels too. Happy about this. I am doing a rolling release making it happen. No issues. Thank you for making this System.
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: stable
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 1
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I would have expected more from an Arch release, especially from the popularity that this distro has gained over the years. Manjaro reminds me of my fist experience with Linux, openSuse, where you had to do all the heavy lifting and pray that it would run smoothly for at least 6 months.
Manjaro is a poor mans Ubuntu. After running fine for the first few months, it asked me to update my kernel. I took the conservative approach and went with the next version one step higher. After reboot the logon screen complained about, kernel module not loaded, plymouth error and then abruptly stopped when it reached the CUPS loader.
I rebooted my pc and was presented with a black screen with a flashing cursor. I tried a rescue disk and was able to setup everything the way it was before. I launched file manager so I could get any recent work saved on to a USB drive, and that's when I received a kernel panic.
Manjaro is great for noobs new to Arch but I wouldn't use it for anything but a browser.
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Project: PCLinuxOS
Version: 2019.02
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 2
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Everything works perfectly on my 2011 dell latitude laptop E5420 (cpu i5-2520M), also the printer-scanner hp. Great Control Center!
The laptop is Super Fast (with the standard kde desktop)!
The installation is way quicker with respect to ubuntu.
The system is very reactive.
Minimal maintenance efforts thanks to the rolling release packages.
Exceptionally stable
The 2019 version of PCLinuxOS (Release date: May 2019) is superb!
Thanks to the community
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Project: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Version: 2019.03.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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An Arch derivative which definetly respects your freedom. It strongly adheres to the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (FSDG).
There are no features missing compared to Arch.
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Project: Mageia
Version: 6
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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Tres bonne distribution . Tres facile à installer et en Français !
Elle ne plante pas comme ubuntu ou linuxmint
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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Solus is the only distro I tried in more than eight years as a GNU/Linux user, which was impossible to run in the live mode.
Since it is designed for the Linux beginners, it can hardly be recommended. Instead of giving advices at Solus forum about how to settle this problem, the developers should settle it themselves and avoid similar failures.
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Project: Maui Linux
Version: 17.06
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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I have tried most linux distros and I still come back to Maui. By far the best.
I graduated through the Kubantu and Netrunner.
I tried many other Linux distros.
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Project: Zorin OS
Version: 15-beta
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 0
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Installed on Alienware 15 R4. Out of the box, everything works. To enable the faster NVIDIA drivers, you'll need to install them via Software and Updates, but it worked. I had to play around a little with the Kernel because the NVIDIA driver wasn't working right with the kernel, but I eventually got it to boot like normal. I installed with secure boot, with Windows 10 alongside it. LibreOffice looks great, and on other Linux distros I went with WPS because of the Look & Feel of it. Scaling and Display settings are spot on.
5Ghz WiFi works great, and haven't had any issues with it. Installed apps smoothly and am enjoying the new desktop experience. I personally was a fan of the Zorin 12.4 desktop, but this one is much more enjoyable.
System Specs:
CPU: i9-8950HK @ 4.0 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA 1080 w/ Max-Q Design
Storage: 2x 512 GB NVMe SSD, 1x 1TB SSD
RAM: 32GB
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 19.05.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 3
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I think its a great concept.
I installed Arcolinux and then took their OpenBox script and changed it around to create an IceWM install instead. They have different levels of the same/similar OS so someone can learn a step at a time. I didn't notice messed up fonts or anything, but I'm a function is priority #1 guy, and this does work..
Beyond the basic version it takes time to learn, but that should be expected if you really do want to learn and not just use what was provided.
Its based on Arch, so that has good points, but when you need things outside from AUR, its takes more time and effort than just installing a repo package, because you need to run the scripts to compile and install, which are provided, so you learn from them.
1. Easy distro for anyone to install and learn to tweak
2. Basic distro building scripts for different flavors just install them
3. Take a script you installed and change it around to create a flavor you want
4. Create a whole distro from it
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 18.2
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 1
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This is quite a good distro. I am not giving it a 10 because it does tno support UEFI boot at all. I tried installing on PBR (Partition Boot Record) and ESP and neither managed to be boot up, one even with Legacy boot turned on instead of UEFI. I finally got MX Linux to boot by switching to Legacy boot. But once booted, everything works well. All my hardware is detected and working, and I was able to install Chrome and access my files with no problem. Because this is Debian based and I have been using various Ubuntu builds, package updating is familiar for me.
I will use this distro for a while.
--- mswoon
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Project: OpenBSD
Version: 6.5
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Pros: Works good and is secure.
Cons: Firefox tabs keep crashing in OpenBSD snapshots. It did not do that in the stable release. Not all printers and wireless cards are supported.
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Great indipendent distro, fast and stable.
Budgie is best compromise among all DE
Fresh air in Linux world
Thank you Solus :-)
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Project: Condres OS
Version: 19.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Using the KDE Plasma DE on my AMD Ryzen 7 equipped computer, Condres has run flawlessly and updated frequently during the several months I have been using it. Responsiveness from Condres team to my queries in forum have been answered promptly. This distribution should place in Distrowatch's Top 100
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Project: Fedora
Version: 30
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Pros:
- UEFI booting is supported by default
- Everything seems to work.
Cons:
- I wanted to install into a hard disk that already had another OS installed. I wanted to erase the disk and just install Fedora. The "Automatic" option does not tell me whether it is going to do that or not. After fiddling around a few times, I managed to delete both partitions of the existing OS then proceed with installation.
- I don't like that you have to click Applications at the top left then click on the icon for Firefox, for example. Other distros allow me to click just once.
- I found that it could not play some video files. The first attempts using the Videos default application resulted in a request for an additional GStreamer package - two were already installed and this third one is not. It is from a third party repository so the key has to be added. On the second try, the third GStreamer package was installed successfully but the video file still cannot be played. I then tried installing mplayer - there is no mplayer package but kmplayer is available. Let's get kmplayer then. It installed correctly but still cannot play the video files.
I am switching to another distro to try.
--- mswoon
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Project: Peppermint OS
Version: 10
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Peppermint used to be a fun little distro. So I tried the new one in a VM.
If you want Ubuntu-based, just run Ubuntu. My biggest "thing" is that Peppermint is now very Cloud-centric, just an empty shell of an "OS" remains.
Instead of LibreOffice or something FOSS, Peppermint OS 10 violates its victims with Microsoft Office (online web-app editions). You may as well just surrender and run Windows 10.
The foundation on Ubuntu is solid, but everything "above ground" has been compromised and replaced with things that are not "Linux" in code or philosophy. To me this is like insisting on running your new Porsche on diesel for no good or logical reason - while staring at the label on the cap that reads "Premium petrol only."
Gets a very solid "NO" in my book.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 30
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 4
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Fedora 30 is an excellent Linux distribution. Uefi compatible opening closing animations, all applications are up to date and continue to receive updates. Basic components like kernel video card v.s are always up to date.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 30
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 2
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Fedora 30 is amazing. I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, MX Linux, Arch Linux, Manjaro, Deepin before installing Fedora and it has been my daily driver since then, the reasons being:
1) Installation is fast and simple.
2) It just works out of the box. No need to tweak or fix anything.
3) It is stable, battery optimization is great and resource consumption is fair.
4) It has great hardware support. It was the only distro in which my bt speaker worked without any hassle.
5) Fedora has vast and up to date repositories not as up to date as Arch Linux but still it is good. The applications I needed were mostly up to date.
The only complain I have about fedora is that its package manager is slow in terms of package name auto completion.
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Project: Peppermint OS
Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 2
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Very happy user of V9 on older PC where windows 10 was dying since their last upgrades.
The distro is very fast and has what it takes for a full desktop functionality.
Thanks for new improvements.
I would have liked a possibility to perform a manual upgrade instead of a new install...
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 19.05.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 2
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A lot of problems with the Plasma edition, icons are missing, fonts are too light. Attempting to fix using customization just compounds the issues. Looks to me like this project needs a few more years of development.
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Project: Elive
Version: 3.0.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Fast, run well also on old laptop, and extremely nice.
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Project: Linux Lite
Version: 4.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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Lite makes Linux super-friendly for new Linux users. Thankfully it is light but not so light that the user has a lot of work to do after installation.
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Project: Lubuntu
Version: 19.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 0
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I have been using Lubuntu for over a month and have to give it a 10. You can download many different desktops LXDE, Cinnamon, Mate, Unity, KDE Plasma. Many different icon themes. Under Preferences/Alternatives Configuator you can change the login screen--look for sddm-ubuntu-theme. for the log in theme. Download additional SDDM themes using Muon. Dell Optiplex 980 4GB ram.
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Project: Peppermint OS
Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 3
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This version is by far the fastest Peppermint I have used. Boot time was 8 seconds. Only problem I encountered was after installing the Nvidia driver, I hit the restart button, and it didn't work. No big deal, I just did a manual reboot.
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: stable
Rating: 2
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 1
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Very bad quality control in release and every update.
After update , eventually will get broken and wont boot. If successfully boot , there is some glitch in update system, for example some broken packages, compatibility packages with other apps, and more.
This distro like shoot and pray, not recommended for beginner level that first in linux
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Project: Q4OS
Version: 2.7
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 0
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Once installed, this OS is great. The default layout looks like MSWindows XP (though that's easily changed). In fact, everything about it is geared to look and work like XP (including the look of the icons). This would be great for someone switching from MSWindows (XP or 7) to Linux. As an OS in it's own right, it works magnificently. It's a general purpose desktop OS, using the Trinity desktop environment - a simplified version of KDE. The only caveat is the installation process. Where most other distros ask you whether you want to install the new distro alongside the old, or erase the disc and use the entire disc for the new installation, or other, Q4OS's installer makes/lets you do all the partition work manually, and then only installs the bare OS. Then, once you reboot and reach the desktop, you have to install your choice of basic programs or full desktop, using the ‘Desktop Profiler’. It took a full 3/4 of an hour for that part alone (for the full desktop). Most other distros take about 15-20 minutes to install on my machine. Q4OS took one hour in total. This would/will dissuade anyone, coming from MSWindows, from ever installing Q4OS, unfortunately. Since Q4OS is based on Debian (stable) why not use the 'buntu installer which simply asks you to choose between options and does it all for you.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 18.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 42
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I have tested many distro such as ubuntu 16, 18, 19, mint, openSUSE, Elementary and debian. I think this distro is the best. because:
1) Many useful software for instillation
2) super stability
3) Lightweight environment
4) Very good looking
I have found no cons so far. I definitely recommend this distro for beginners and experts.
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Project: SUSE Linux Enterprise
Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 3
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A very good platform, SUSE is unique in the Linux world and has been adhering to its own characteristics for more than 25 years. Of course, in addition to the illustrious history, SUSE has made tremendous efforts and has not become a follower like most distributions. It starts with users (including a wide variety of people, of course), pursuing a burden on the learning and use of users, while providing a stable and reliable environment for the business. It is like that.
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Project: deepin
Version: 15.10.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 14
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I like the deepin release mode- rolling which is differest from the other distributions' fixed mode.
It is so convenient that you only need to click the upgrade button when a new update is released. I have never encountered any issue when upgrading to a new release.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 0
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Not being able to use some videos and having problems using Lilypond and and very slow transfer to USB flash sticks. I'm quitting this distro.
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Project: FreeBSD
Version: 11.2
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 0
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FreeBSD is a very good system for servers. That's for sure.
But for normal computer users (not highly-skilled ones),
it is absolutely not fit for desktop usage nor Developer Workstation.
I have been using Linux for 23 years and would say that
the learning curve is about the same as using Slackware in 1996.
By the way, package management is much better on FreeBSD than on Slackware.
So, FreeBSD is a good system for servers and highly-skilled users.
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: stable
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 7
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Streets ahead of other distros technically, and it's great to be able to find clear answers ie to be able to learn something, however steadily. Updates done via TTY are excellent; I've rarely had an issue (KDE stable), and, when I did, it was easy to temporarily downgrade a package, and things were fixed very fast. It's great that a thread is posted when there are updates released; it details everything, and is there for feedback/solutions. Everything is available to install, either through the repo or in the AUR. So glad I moved to Manjaro; everything works, and you can just get on and enjoy getting things done. Tomorrow it's 2 years since I came over to Linux; Manjaro is the best distro I've used, without a doubt.
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Project: Gentoo Linux
Version: unstable
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 1
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I've been running Gentoo since 2003 on my main computer. I now run it on almost all of my computers (except my servers...the necessary compilation software offers unnecessary extra attack vectors).
There are times I hate having to compile everything for my computer and have tried other distros... from Arch to Ubuntu. I just keep coming back. I love that I can compile all of my software for the particular hardware I am using, and make everything fit the way I want to run my computer.
From time to time, I find that there are not ebuilds (packages) available for the software I want, but that happens on all distros at some point. I look on the internet and in Gentoo's bug system and have almost always found an answer.
Unstable does break from time to time. Be aware of that. I run a combination of stable and unstable systems. I find the stable is sometimes a bit slow to upgrade packages, so I'm tempted to move to unstable, but there is always that possibility of breakage, so I refrain from moving all of my systems to unstable.
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Project: Nitrux
Version: 1.1.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 0
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Nitrux a different distribution. It works perfectly in my new Pavilion with Ryzen 5, the wifi the Bluetooth work out of the box.
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Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 1
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The best GNU/Linux distro ever! You have available the whole software in their repos, if still you cannot find what you are looking for ... You also have got the AUR.
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Project: Chakra GNU/Linux
Version: 2019.01-rc3
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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Chakra is the only distro I know of that actually pulls off KDE well. I end up with weird glitches/bugs in Kubuntu and KDE Neon, and the KDE spin of Manjaro.
Pacman is a decent package manager, although I prefer apt.
Beautiful OTB design.
If KDE and Pacman are your thing, then I would highly recommend this distro.
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Project: Bluestar Linux
Version: 5.0.13
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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A little heavy on the resources and disk space, and as hard as I tried, I could not configure it as a VM. A few missing apps that I could not get to run, and others that were 1 or 2 versions behind.
Nice eye candy but too few resources to really give it a try.
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Project: Debian
Version: 9
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 9
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a bit much todos for configuring and personal installing, but
+ ugly stable
+ highly performant
+ lovely compatible sw
+ DEB/apt imho best package management I used since > 14 years
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Project: deepin
Version: 15.10.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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I love the graphical user interface similar to OS X
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Project: NomadBSD
Version: 1.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 2
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Perfect for everyday use.
The openbox menu accessed by right clicking anywhere on the desktop is such a simple and direct way to access applications and settings. HP printer setup is so easy using the HP Device manager, but I find you have to use the Printer configuration utility (CUPS web interface shortcut) to print a test page, think its actually a HPLIP problem that I noticed on other systems. The dock gives the desktop a somewhat MACish or XStreamOS feel. OctoPKH works good for adding or updating applications.
love it. best desktop I have come across
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Project: Android-x86
Version: 8.1-r1
Rating: 2
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 3
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First, it took a lot of doing to get it to install with Grub.
Second, it sprawled out to something like 100 GB on a notebook. Geezus! I didn't find it light or speedy at all.
Third, it was slow at most things.
Fourth, yeah, a lot of the apps that I use on my phone that I wanted to use on a five year old Panasonic notebook didn't work.
No, it's a nice concept, but it sucks.
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Project: OpenIndiana
Version: 2019.04
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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I see that on lenovo (Intel i3 8Ram) live version works but very,very slow.., firefox works very slow.
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Project: deepin
Version: 15.10.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 10
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Deepin Linux is one of the best if not the best system that I have used, its stunning pretty and has run flawlessly since, I installed it. The App store is the best I have seen. Since it is based on Debian , it has access to running any .deb package. I have found everything I could ever want in the store. Its been flawless. Great work guys !
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Project: Raspbian
Version: 2019-04-08
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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I have two RPI's - a B+ and an RPI3.
The B+ I jave had much longer then the RPI3, and have been using it almost exclusivly as a VPN to connect to the internet, but also have a printer/scanner plugged into it, and is a printer/scanner server for all other machines or for the home network.
Lately due to being very low in money at the end of one cycle, I started using the RPI3 as a desktop machine, or a cheap replacement for the desktop.
I only needed to use the RPI3 for four or five days, but have been using it as a desktop machine ever since - its been three weeks now!
The biggest problem at the beginning was that it would be unstable, and would need to be shut off, but I replaced the PSU with an 'official' PSU and have no problems with stability since.
I run tor, privoxy, squid, firefox, vlc, smplayer, gimp, xane, libreoffice and others with no problem.
As well as above, both the RPI's are very quiet read silent in operation, they take next to no power to run.
You will need your own HDMI lead and possibly an adaptor if your monitor does not naturally have an hdmi slot, a usb keyboard and mouse is required as well.
But they are great.
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Project: Q4OS
Version: 3.6-testing
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 1
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I'm using KDE Plasma edition. Oddly it runs much more faster than other kde based distros, such as KDE Neon and or Kubuntu.
Probably the best Debian based distro right now.
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Project: Void
Version: 20181111
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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I tried to install this on the internal eMMC of an HP Stream 11-ah117wm laptop, using the Xfce-based live image from a USB disk. The installer is very basic; I don't mind the interface, but it couldn't connect to my Wi-Fi after I entered the password (and I had to enter the SSID manually), and it doesn't provide for encrypted filesystems.
Unfortunately, the install failed at the GRUB stage with “unknown filesystem” with not much explanation of why, and dumped me back into a root shell. I was using what I thought was a pretty basic ESP+XFS partitioning scheme. I tried to put together my own chroot and fix it from there, but I got stuck and pretty much gave up.
I was looking into XBPS via digging into the source and the ports tree, and have mixed feelings about it; I didn't get to try it in practice. It looks mostly good, but my use case involves it being easy to add custom packages. xbps-rindex looks good for that, and the template format has some interesting features.
There's not that much documentation in general. Some of the documentation is out of date and still refers to voidlinux.eu, which can be a disproportionately annoying stumbling block occasionally.
It feels like the kind of distro I'll want to try again later if it gets some more polish.
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Project: antiX
Version: 17.4.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 23
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Getting drained by windows, I was looking alternative OS for my old laptop (Intel N3540; 4gb RAM). I wanted to see it run fast again. After searching & reading some articles, I decided to try antiX and it successfully amazed me. AntiX is extremely light yet still powerful OS based on Debian. Whoever created this distro is a real genius. The installation was very easy and so far I didn't find any difficulties with hardware. WiFi & sound card run smoothly without any additional driver. Not yet test it for external VGA (monitor).
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 19.05.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 8
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My favorite Arch based distro I've tried so far. Works great with XFCE and runs cooler than other DEs I usually use
I installed it alongside another distro and had no problems
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 18.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-05-17
Votes: 0
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I don't see what this has over AntiX linux, I like the more spartan interface of AntiX, and I think it just plain looks better. I noticed when I went to boot this from the live CD (USB really), the mouse wouldn't work. It would move to the right of the screen and nothing would get it to come back and act normal. Earlier versions didn't do that, and when I saw this, it was a show-stopper for me. Might be an easy fix, but I have precious little time for something that should just work OOTB.
I ended up installing Manjaro (MATE) on all my systems and love it.
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