Project: UBports
Version: 16.04
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-25
Votes: 0
|
I would not give this 10 out of 10 as it is still not quite the polished article. However that does not stop Ubuntu Touch being exceedingly good. For a mobile device operating system that is in effect funded by a charitable foundation and developed by a volunteer community, it has its issues, but these are really outweighed by it's quirky difference to the mainstream and the number of devices it has been ported to.
It is a great challenge to port as a lot of device hardware is proprietary, so each device has to be ported to individually. Then couple that with the way some manufacturers put blocks in place for "security" reasons and of course the older hardware issues, usually declining battery life. There are now over 70 devices in the port, so if you have an old phone lying around, which I did, there is a good chance you could revive it and make it useful again.
Android an iOS are kind of the polished items, but are let down by bloatware (why?) and the constant sneaky use of your data (why?). Ubuntu Touch does not have this and you can essentially make it your own, be as open or private as you wish. There are going to be issues as there is with all software, but persevering and working through, there has generally been a solution.
Overall, this is really good to revive older hardware that has been orphaned by the manufacturers and give it an interesting new lease of life.
|
Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: stable
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-25
Votes: 1
|
The best linux distro, with the power and speed of arch and simplicity down it's way.
|
Project: Feren OS
Version: 2021.10
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-25
Votes: 0
|
I'll say this about Feren: it looks pretty damn slick and it does provide a Windows migration option out of the box. Unfortunately, that's all I can say about it.
I decided to test it out on a whim and ran into issues pretty quickly. Installation didn't go through on the first try, giving me an error and it took another one to complete. The boot menu was noticeably slower after the reboot, and so was the system itself in comparison to a few other mid-range distros I normally use; on my laptop it took several clicks on Install button in their app manager for a package to install because they just wouldn't register. The bluetooth wasn't working properly. I also had trouble running Spotify on Vivaldi due to some issues with widevine, though it ultimately worked after a few launches.
Feren goes for a hybrid OSX/Windows interface with an OSX aesthetic but Windows' bottom app panel and titlebar buttons placed to the right. If you're familiar with both interfaces, this might give your OCD a run for its money; I tried placing the buttons to the left, which took a dozen attempts as the Titlebar buttons in Window Decoration settings was glitching out something awful. Cursors would change back and forth sometimes. To be fair, all this might be Plasma's rather than Feren's fault and I've seen this in other distros. But overall I gave up on it after an hour as I didn't find any redeeming qualities in comparison to some other faster and more stable distros. It's the little frustrations that add up and I'm glad this was not my first Linux experience, otherwise I could have been driven away from it.
|
Project: PCLinuxOS
Version: 2022.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 2
|
Great Distro, Thanks Tex and crew. Couldn't ask for a better Linux distro. Best Magazine hands down. If I could had given a 100 as a score i would have.
|
Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 2
|
I've run any possible distro during the years, I'm an accomplished linux sysadmin and I can say with no doubt that Arch is the best distro available nowadays. Period.
No stability issues in years, always the best wiki and the greatest package manager available.
Definitely worth to spend some time in learning the basic installation or simply follow one of the many tutorial available on the net.
|
Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: 21.2.2
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 3
|
If I want anyone to take anything away from my summary of Manjaro it's this: Manjaro Plasma has played the most important part in my switching to Linux from Windows.
Prior to it I've tried several distros ranging from popular and noob-oriented to graphic-installer-free-fuck-you-figure-it-out-yourself. They were either confusing and overwhelming, bland and boring, visually repelling, or simply not captivating enough to spark something in me (I'll give some credit to Mint as it came pretty close to that, though). Not only was Manjaro friendly and comforting in how it introduced the system to me, it was the first distro that made me feel at home with Linux and the first to make me think "okay, I can actually consider letting go of Windows with this". None less importantly, it ignited a curiosity in me to explore Linux on a deeper level--I was off to a more advanced distro in a short amount of time, one step closer to my goal of comfortably inhabiting an expert-level sysd-free system which I will be knowledgeable enough to customize to my whim.
All in all, it's as close to being a helpful Linux crash course for beginners while not explicitly being a study guide as I can think of, and it was exactly what I needed to properly kick off my acquaintance with the OS.
|
Project: Void
Version: 20210218
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 2
|
i really like it, runit is just amazing and xbps is fast and simple. i have not had any issues with something i want not being an available package, but will admit that there are people who will probably be missing things.
|
Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 1
|
Have gone through Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Arch Linux, and who remembers what other distros, but so far, openSUSE is no doubt my favourite to use.
You get the option of a rolling distro (tumbleweed) or a more stable version, depending on your preferences, and zypper is quite good (you also have opi though, and I love using both package managers). If you're new and still a bit afraid of the terminal, you have Yast which gives you a GUI to take care of things. It truly seems like the best of all worlds so far.
|
Project: KDE neon
Version: 20220113
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 0
|
Been very happy with this distro so far. To start off, I liked is that the ISO comes with limited software, so the ISO is small and you can then go ahead and install whatever you want. KDE Neon found both my WiFi and my USB printer out-of-the-box, I was surprised at the latter. The KDE environment is very responsive and has all the options you expect in a modern desktop. KDE Neon is advertised as having the latest version of KDE, and compared with the version of KDE on Debian Bullseye, the KDE Neon version has some nice updates. The main menu is improved by including favorites as easy to read/select icons rather than a list, and is very snappy. Right click works all over the desktop, for example you can right-click on an application in the main menu to bring up a context menu for setting that application as a favorite or pinning it. Similarly, (left) clicking on an item in the Dolphin file manager automatically launches the associated program. Overall just a very nice and usable environment. I installed the User Edition (25th anniversary) and so far have not found any problematic bugs.
|
Project: antiX
Version: 21
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 2
|
AntiX is the only distro I have found that loads onto my old and (even when new) low-end netbook computer with only 1 GB RAM. It was sluggish in its default setting, but replacing Firefox with Falkon and going with fluxbox/JWM as the environment made it pretty snappy. The default is IceWM/Rox, but besides being slow that setup was not always fitting onto my netbook screen (odd screen size, of course). AntiX fouind and set up my WiFi no problem. It provides a control center that is pretty clunky compared with KDE, but usable, I was able to reset menu programs with it which can be tricky with lightweight window managers, usually requiring finding/editing the configuration file. And as a Debian-based distro you do have access to the full repository of Debian. I also like that it sets up separate user and root passwords, a lot of Debian-based distros do not do that. I would highly recommend trying AntiX for older computers, and might even consider it for a higher end computer if I wanted maximum speed.
|
Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 1
|
I use Arch to support all my office work including my internet administration. Arch is a robust distro that I've been using for almost 10 years
|
Project: Solus
Version: 4.3
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 0
|
I have really tried to like Solus. Its has a number of Pro's:
Nice themes. Fast.
But the Con's are making me mad.
Own installer so you cannot use deb or rpm packages.
The printer driver support is poor.
And programs like Skype and Sound/mic/speakers just gives a lot of issues.
If someone is leaving Windows 7 (and has older printers etc) this is NOT a good OS to move to.
I even donated to the project but now that the office has 2 PC's with it and there are constant issues, I think I may need to move to Linux Mint.
|
Project: Feren OS
Version: 2021.10
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 0
|
The live medium changed my host name to "feren". That's an absolute no-go.
Hope that this was the only change made.
Besides that the distro is a crude mixture, doing everything different. Unfortunately this doesn't mean better.
|
Project: Linuxfx
Version: 11.1.1103
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 0
|
Sounds to me too much like the real Windows. I am so glad to be away from the Windows bullcrap I don't want anything that even looks like Windows.
David
|
Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 1
|
I started using the distribution on Leap 42.2 until today both at work in the administration of Linux Windows servers, Qemu KVM Virtualization that works very well and I use it at home in a notebook shared with my wife for digital content work in social networks and for entertainment
the stability of just things working is amazing I'm using it with KDE Plasma interface, but I used it with Gnome and it runs fine too
|
Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 2
|
Rock solid rolling distro.
btrfs helps when you have an issue. Just reboot in to the last working snapshot of your system.
I've been running tumbleweed for more the 4 years now and to this day I never had any issue. I use it for my work and I use it to play games (including Windows games via steam).
Before sticking to SUSE I've been hopping between various distros, including leap.But Tumbleweed is my last stop.
Love it, Sticking to it
|
Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 1
|
On of the most stable reliable and performant rolling releases I ever used thanks to OpenQA.
Also works exceptionally well with proprietary nvidia drivers.
With OBS (Open Build Service) there is hardly any package missing for this marvelous distribution.
However -1 for the codecs and nvidia driver installation as they come fro 3rd party repositories and seems not to be integrated in the initial installation. Thanks to opensuse-community[dot]org it is still pretty easy to install both using One-Click installers.
Been using Tumbleweed now for over 4 years and didn't had a single unsolvable issue.
Great community, great disto, quality software and well tested.
|
Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 9
|
As newbie to linux I fell in love with OpenSUSE.
I tried several other distros first (honestly I did not try openSUSE before, because the name didn't sound as cool as other big names in the game). Being new, everytime I destroyed a distro by my cluelessness, I had to reinstall it (and distro-hopped) because I was (and am) not capable to fix my mess.
When I did something dumb in openSUSE I googled and found someone talking about "snapper" and how cool is that? I just had to type snapper rollback and this little gecko-dude undid my changes, fixed my distro and it worked again. No need to reinstall!
Eventhough a lot of people say openSUSE is not beginner-friendly I would disagree completely. The missing codecs were very easy to install as well as the storied nvidia-drivers were no problem to get running. I could set up everything for gaming without any problems. nvidia, wine, lutris and steam and started gaming. And if you destroy something, just reroll the automatic backup.
I honestly don't understand why openSUSE is allegedly not for beginners. I did not even have to enter the terminal, if i don't want to. Everything can be done with YaST: Adding repos for nvidia, downloading and installing it. No need to fiddle in the terminal.
The installation is really easy as well. You can pick your desktop environment and the programs you want to have installed alongside. No need for photo- and videostuff? uncheck the box, no need for office-stuff? uncheck the box.
I also really like the documentation online. It is not on arch-level, but there is a lot of stuff to find. And if it's not there, the community is very helpful. I already asked something in the discord and in the forum and the people were very helpful.
It's really cool that you have the choice between a rolling-release (tumbleweed) and the stable-release (leap). My distro-hopping came to an end. I really like that little green dude.
|
Project: Fedora
Version: 35
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
I have been using a dual boot system with Debian and Ubuntu for 2+yrs. Both are deb-linux and both are very solid.
I wanted to try rpm-linux, so I tried this one. I had tried RedHat in 1999 when Linux was a novel idea, and only a few programs were available. At that time, RedHat was thee leader, and if you were going to use Linux, it must be RedHat.
Fedora 35 was truly a disappointment. It took about 3x the amount of time to install as all other distros that I have tried (Manjaro, Debian, Ubuntu, Endeavour, MX), and once it was done it wanted to spend another 2 hours updating. Once it had completed installing and updating, I tried to install VirtualBox but was unsuccessful in doing it. Searching online for workarounds revealed that this was a big problem with Fedora.
Using Fedora reminded me of installing Windows upgrades...they take forever, but they don't work and they like to crash.
|
Project: Artix Linux
Version: 20220121
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
The community editions of this little thing are everything the average user will every need. Tons of software and a work-ready environment out of the box. This is the one distro to rule them all.
|
Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 21.5
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
I have been using a dual boot system with Debian and Ubuntu. Both are deb-linux and both are very solid. I wanted to try arch-linux, so I tried this one. I had problems with the installer, and it destroyed my GRUB file. I could not fix GRUB with rescatux, so I just re-installed a clean version as a stand alone. The system worked smoothly, and was responsive, but it offered nothing more than I already had with either Debian or Ubuntu, plus I would not be able to assess its stability without re-learning arch-linux commands. As a result I decided to continue growing my knowledge with the deb-linux systems.
|
Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
I have a dual boot system with Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20.04 (built using Debian). While both distros are solid, Debian wins hands down. It is lighter, faster, and has less overhead than Ubuntu. Users can grow into either distro according to their level of expertise. They are both easy for beginners, and offer full power for experienced power users.
I have tried distros that are based on other Linux types (Arch, RPM) like the Manjaro, Endeavour, Fedora distros. I have found anything built with a Debian (deb) base is solid, and the skills that you learn are transferrable. You can't go wrong choosing either Debian or Ubuntu. Pick Ubuntu if you want a Windows-like experience.
|
Project: Debian
Version: 11
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 5
|
I have a dual boot system with Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20.04 (built using Debian). While both distros are solid, Debian wins hands down. It is lighter, faster, and has less overhead than Ubuntu. Users can grow into either distro according to their level of expertise. They are both easy for beginners, and offer full power for experienced power users.
I have tried distros that are based on other Linux types (Arch, RPM) like the Manjaro, Endeavour, Fedora distros. I have found anything built with a Debian (deb) base is solid, and the skills that you learn are transferrable. You can't go wrong choosing either Debian or Ubuntu, but I pick Debian for a swift, customizable experience.
|
Project: EasyOS
Version: 3.2.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
It runs pretty good,except for the network HP printer, If I need printing, just fell back to 262 where it works fine. I run a std firefox from mozilla, uses a smaller space than Barry's. Dunfell which I have called Dunfail is running pretty well. I have played with 3.2.1 and added sleep to closing menu and some other things.
|
Project: Pop!_OS
Version: 20.04
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 2
|
I use the Pop_OS 20.04 i prefer the Gnome enviroment with main bar at left side, I've a laptop Intel quad-core 1,95 GHz, MMS 32 GB and RAM 2 GB. The system run very well and the memory manager is better than Ubuntu or Linux Mint. I also prefer the debian packges for to install aplications.
|
Project: Linux Mint
Version: 20.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 13
|
Upgraded all of my Mint 20.* Cinnamon x64 PCs to Mint 20.3 without any problems.
All printers, scanners, and WIFI-6 devices work ok.
I use HP and Epson printers and scanners.
Cinnamon is a refined desktop which has become my preferred daily desktop.
Thanks for a great OS.
|
Project: elementary OS
Version: 6.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 1
|
Awful Mac OS clone without any of the ease of use positives that Mac honestly has. The UI for elementary looks poor and is pretty buggy. System resource usage is heavy and I found at times applications like Firefox and LibreOffice would freeze and also crash because elementary would use so much ram. Basically bloated and developers have an awful closed sense mentality and thought-process of making it nearly impossible to change things to make the distro more preferable to individual users’ look and feel.
|
Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
had to correct issues right after fresh install. You would be better to go with EndeavourOS
|
Project: Linuxfx
Version: 11.1.1103
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 1
|
Buggy and slow as already mentioned by another reviewer sums it up pretty well. Plus when you add this much extra code into a Linux distro to make it behave like Windows it's just a disaster waiting to happen in the long term. No one will ever try to use this in a business environment so it's home uses being persuaded but why? All the popular 'full' distros contain everything you need for internet and office without have to install a leviathan like LinuxFX.
|
Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 21.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 13
|
Great distro - switched to EOS from Manjaro as Manjaro would not easily allow linux-hardened to be installed. The EOS installer with a btrfs scheme uses subvolumes compatible with snapshots from snapper. Never had any problems or needed to boot from a snapshot. The EOS repo provides some useful packages that ordinarily would have to be built from AUR. The forum is also pretty good.
|
Project: Lubuntu
Version: 21.10
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 0
|
Lubuntu is really good again. When they first dumped LXDE for LXQT, the ram and cpu usage were only slightly less than a full blown kde desktop or xfce desktop,(maybe 35 to 45 mb less). So I thought what's the point of Lubuntu now.
However, after trying 21.10, it seems like memory usage is way down around 160 to 190 mb less than kde or xfce. I was installing LXDE onto Xubuntu for a while, but seems like no point of doing that anymore, since I'd really only be saving 20-25 mb doing that...makes more sense now to just to use Lubuntu. Lubuntu also nicely has a search function in the menu.
I only wish a 32 bit version was available but that's a Canonical decision, not the Lubuntu team.
I guess you can always use 18.04 for a bit longer.
|
Project: Grml
Version: 2020.06
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 0
|
If you need a rescue CD for use with Debian based systems, this is the one to get.
|
Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 1
|
Excellent look OOB. Lots of customization available. Highly recommend!!
|
Project: Linux Mint
Version: 20.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 4
|
Great OS but for some reason my Graphic Drivers are not loaded sometimes (Nvidia). This happens only with Linux Mint. I had to force load the nvidia modules with systemd:
load-nvidia.service:
[Unit]
Description=Load Nvidia driver
Before=display-manager.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/sbin/modprobe nvidia; sleep 1'
[Install]
WantedBy=display-manager.service
With this i had no issues at all. Very stable experience.
|
Project: deepin
Version: 20.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 8
|
Nearly ideal system for normal users. Have found it to be completely reliable on several computers, very good selection of everyday apps that seem to have better design than most other systems.
Highly recommend the default install to the whole disk and use the App Store for installing applications. This sets up partitions so that the operating system base is backed up before every update and configures the boot menu to allow booting the backup if there is any problem, like the new system fails to support something on your particular computer.
Booting into the backup system you will still have your home folder and installed apps just as they had been. This is very slick, making the system almost unbreakable.
I would rate the default install as 8 or 9 out of 10 for developers and debian pros who want to use the Apt command line because the default root partition is too small (the Deepin Store installs debian packages to appdirs in /opt which is on the "data" partition with /home and /var). Experts will be happier with an expert install to manual partitioning or the default install using two drives by selecting an ssd drive as "system drive" and a second drive as "data drive".
Overall the best linux system I've ever used. Deepin use the super reliable Qt and Kwin graphical toolkits in place of Gtk3/Gtk4 to build a desktop that is very much like Gnome with the dashtopanel extension -- and better detailing and usability than either KDE or Gnome have achieved.
|
Project: Linux Kodachi
Version: 8.14
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 1
|
What a WONDERFUL Distro!!!! A secure OS that is suitable for everyday use! Support for VPN's including some free ones! Comes bundled with Libre Office and tons of other FREE and Open Source applications! Kill switches for VPN's, TOR, DNS, and your Security Score etc. Nuke option on encrypted HD setup so you can delete the encryption keys and wipe EVERYTHING! The ability to turn off the anonymous services so you can access your bank accounts or other sites that require you to show your REAL IP ADDRESS ! You can turn off all the radio signals and restrict it to the wired connection! You can spoof your time zone, select a random host name, fonts, icons, keyboard strokes! All of this that can be run without even installing Kodachi on your physical hardware ! It can be run from ram which makes it amazingly fast even on ancient hardware!
Cons = The audio requires me to go to the settings tab every time I reboot and set it to my HDMI output.
You can not change the user name if you want all of the security scripts to work !
|
Project: BunsenLabs Linux
Version: lithium-3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 1
|
Very good ,i moved from mx-linux to this ,just to test it out.
It performs very well and looks great too.
It's hard to continue distro-hopping when you have an OS like this installed as it just works so well.
There's really no need to use anything else.
Well done to the guys responsible ,a great looking and stable OS.
|
Project: Xubuntu
Version: 21.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 0
|
Very happy to use this kind of Ubuntu. It is fast, stable and easy to use.
|
Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 0
|
I use Ubuntu as server for my home needs. It provides fast, reliable ssh, samba, torrents services for my home PCs with Linux and Windows systems. Everything works OK. Installation was easy and straight-forward.
I like Ubuntu. Among other distros I'd recommend also to try Mint and Fedora.
|
Project: Ubuntu
Version: 18.04
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 0
|
I need to use it for robotic projects. ROS1 is only packaged for ubuntu and debian. This is the good of ubuntu. Nearly every piece of free software is packaged for it.
But the overall quality of official supported packages is quite low in my experience. The ubuntu desktop (maintained by canonical) freezes some time.I thought that enterprise grade means that I can rely at least on packages maintainend by canonical.
I can't say mouch about ubuntu's quality in the server field. But I have bad experiences on workstations.
Maybe I should try pure debian.
|
Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
Overall it is a very good distro. It can sometimes be buggy but later releases always fix them. Their discord support server is also very helpful as well and bugs that aren't fixed with the release you get can always be resolved with their help.
|
Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
Ubuntu takes a while to boot up.
With the Ubuntu open graphics driver was much too big on my tv screen I had to install the proprietary driver...
The wifi printers to my surprise are detected immediately but I don't have enough time to check if they were working...
Bluetooth headsets won't work most of the time because it's a known bug on their forum and unresolved until the latest version of Ubuntu....I won't be testing gaming
|
Project: Ubuntu
Version: 21.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
Love Ubuntu been loving it since 2004 or there abouts, Warty Warthog 4.10 , it just works and I can get on with coding, less breakage than fedora my distro before Ubuntu.
|
Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 2
|
I give it a 5 instead of a 3 because I use a couple arch based distros all the time and they are terrific. Pacman is superb. I have been using linux since the mid 90's and I decided to give it another go today. I use slackware current and a few others but mostly slackware. I always laugh when I do a slack install with the graphical selections to setup your system since it's been like that for decades. Yet it works and you are up and cooking in less than a half hour from scratch.
This OS is deliberately a PITA to install, and it shows. I guess it's some sort of initiation ritual based on the community attitude. Command line partitioning and fstab making is cool, great, but it's not necessary for 25 years. Making public knowledge unnecessarily obfuscating does not make it tribal expertise. It makes it difficult to use. I have better things to do. Sorry, not this time.
|
Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 6
|
I'm by no means an advanced Linux user, though maybe some of my colleagues would disagree seeing as I've been using it daily at work as a developer and DevOps engineer for the past 10 years.
This is the only OS that is inaccessible based on your own knowledge of Linux. Where all other distros have understood the basic concept and importance of providing some kind of GUI to get you started, Arch has never bothered with this. For that I definitely applaud Arch for staying true to what it is and defiant in the face of change.
That said, the supposed benefits of the OS are out of reach to all but the most dedicated and motivated. For those of us who have full-time jobs, families, hobbies, friends and so on. It remains an OS that once every year or so, we try to get a feel for based on great feedback but then ultimately end up going back to another more user-friendly OS.
I hate to compare Arch to Manjaro but Manjaro does exactly what I wish Arch did (which is why it exists). User-friendly install, basics for detecting hardware (so you miss nothing) and a simple DE (which you can immediately remove/replace) so you can at least navigate the OS outside of the shell.
|
Project: Ubuntu MATE
Version: 21.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 3
|
Overall, Ubuntu MATE is my favourite linux distro.
PROS:
simple
clean
flexible DE
many apps in repository
regularly updated
good community
CONS:
some errors may occur
repository is, sometimes, unavailable
|
Project: Linuxfx
Version: 11.1.1103
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
(Windows 11 version via live usb) Have to give it a 10 as it looks fantastic. The settings are a little confusing until you get used to where everything is. It's such a good clone of Windows 11 that I wonder whether Microsoft might interveen at some stage. No disrespect to the dev's. A lot of hard work has gone into this version and they deserve recognition. I imagine they could also make a brilliant Mac OS version. I wish them well.
|
Project: Solus
Version: 4.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
Solus is an up-to-date and stable distribution. Kudos to the Solus team for making a great distro that just works. It has most of the software programs I use/need as a daily driver; however...
This is a big however, I can't mount bitlocker encrypted USBs. This does limit me working at home and so, right now, I use Solus as a secondary distro. If they ever include the ability to decrypt bitlocker, then I'll make this my primary, daily distro.
|
Project: Finnix
Version: 123
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
I'm using Finnix since version 108, definitely my favorite tool in my tool box.
All the tools you need from a cli distro for data recovery, period.
|
Project: deepin
Version: 20.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
|
No easy way to install it side-by-side with MS Windows!
Seriously now?!
With Ubuntu I just choose this option with a click!
No partitioning no nothing...
|
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
