Project: antiX
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-03
Votes: 0
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I just tested antix 19.2:
It's, to my knowledge, the fastest and less resource demanding full fleged "light" Linux OS.
It's Debian based, so fully compatible with it's large Repositories.
It's also non Systemd (if that matters)
It boots using about 130Mb of RAM.
If offers, out of the box, a great and well configured desktop (Icewm) that has about every thing users of a modern OS have come to expect:
- If has a fully configurable toolbar, desktop icons, great theming (IMO), and now for easy access, right on the toolbar, access not only to the File Manager and Internet browser (Firefox-ESR), but also to the Package Installer (antiX's "appstore") and an update notifier. So, everything even a basic Linux Newbie may need to get started, no need to ever use the terminal (I mean, ever!)
The full version comes with several internet browsers, a firewall, several file managers (SpaceFM is great, powerful and newbie friendly), LibreOffice, Connman (to manage both wired and wireless network connections- accessible from the Network Info icon near the clock), and loads of software. If you update your system you even get a handy little script to access your android device just like it was a regular thumb-drive.
Responding to a previous commenter: antiX default terminal does provide keyboard shortcuts (they have to be configured using the terminal's GUI: Preferences -Manage Configurations- Shortcuts-Allow editing; then go to the menu, hover over the option you want and press the intended keys- they are now bound to that option- ex: copy or paste )
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Project: Arch Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-03
Votes: 0
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Subject : Awesome
A friend of mine made me discover it and it has been the love at first sight !
Build your own was for me an excellent apprenticeship ! So i immediately wanted to test within a VM.
My first try did not succeed but i've been determined to finish it
The second try was the good one and i tried with KDE although my PC was a bit slow, it did not matter I almost installed a GNU/Linux from scratch and it was a great satisfaction for me !
The Arch wiki is really full so you can somehow find either a solution or an explanation
Thank you for reading
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Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 6
Date: 2020-06-03
Votes: 0
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Display driver problems (on my thinkpad that worked flawless with Mate 18.04.) and terrible battery life. I was expecting something better from a company-backed distro. Still - fast boot times and up-to-date repos are very nice but that will be the same on any other 20.04. flavor. So I don't really recommend using the stock Ubuntu 20.04.
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Project: Debian
Version: 10
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-03
Votes: 5
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Every time I get new hardware I try a few distributions, so see where they are at, and then after a while I decide to install Debian because I don't want to have to think about it, I just want it to work. No doubt that is partly familiarity -- I don't have to learn a new package manager, for example -- but it also means I've never been chased away by some unresovable issue.
I've got a box that has been upgraded from 6 to 7 to 8 to 9 to 10 (yes, it's a few years old), and with Debian 10.4 and MATE running on it, it remains responsive and useful and is my everyday productivity desktop machine, often running Windows in VirtualBox on one screen and MATE desktop on the other. Solid.
I could install a Debian derivative -- I mean, half the distros out there are derived from Debian, directly or indirectly -- but Debian stable is not as far behind the state of the art as it used to be, and I don't bother with cutting-edge hardware, so why not just use the original?
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Project: CloudReady
Version: 80.4.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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Hands down THE best ChromiumOS-based distro. Unlike the others I tested, this one was able to correctly detect all of my hardware. It also lets you enable proprietary media codecs so you don't have playback issues anywhere!
I really feel this distro is way too good to be so little known out there. Hopefully more people will learn about it !
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20200528
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 1
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I am very happy with KDE NEON. I am also a novice Linux user.
I recommend!
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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Superb distro. But some things make me miss Fedora. Sagemath package for example was available in Fedora's official repo, while now I have to wait for Sagemath's source code to compile.
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Project: Linux Lite
Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 1
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Highly recommended for people interested in Linux and others who want to get away from Windows. And this is also the goal of the developers. The installation is very fast and easy. In contrast to other Linux offspring, the Linux-Lite developers also maintain their own program packages. As a result, the most important programs for users are up to date and not, as is logically usual in other Ubuntu descendants, lag far behind the latest edition. Linux-Lite can also be further extended as desired using a package manager based on Ubuntu. I have nothing to criticize, quite the contrary. So ten points.
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Project: Solus
Version: 4.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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I finally found the distro that I will keep forever.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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I had to pick a distro for my non tech savvy dad who who kept getting viruses on Windows, openSUSE was a no brainer.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 4
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Ill try MX Linux on a usb key with persistence, and it's work really well compare to Kali or other distribution i try with persistence, maybe i install MX on my hard drive when i get bored of manjaro.
Good work MX linux team!
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Project: LXLE
Version: 18.04.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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acceptable design and quite fast.
I can not find torrent file to download and downloading from site is a painful task.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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I was an Arch user. Whenever I had to update, I had to take a look at the news announcements, if I did not want my system to break--even wait a bit to see if other Archers had encountered any problems with the update before even daring to type "pacman -Syu". Tumbleweed saved me lots of headaches; now I could update a system months behind without a second thought.
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Project: deepin
Version: 20-beta
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 2
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Pros: This distro has been rock stable so far. Everything works as expected (Thinkpad/Intel).
Runs fast and smoothly.
The control center is well organized - easy to change look and settings.
Unified look of applications (qt/gtk).
Cons: only one. The unmount (umount) option seems to be missing in the file manager, for
external hard drives. You can always use the shell or the gnome-disk-utility so it is not a real problem,
but, it would be good to be able to both mount and unmount with a mouse click. You can easily mount
but not unmount (as far as I can see). The older Deepin file manager has both options.
I am sure this will be fixed in the final version of Deepin 20.
A very good job anyway. 10/10.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 0
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Finally found a KDE distro that is worth being a daily driver. I've being using Kubuntu before, but my laptop's touchpad was all jumpy and the the cursor acted choppy. Installing some xorg synaptics packages broke Plasma completely. None of this was experienced under openSUSE; everything works out of the box.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 3
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+ Brtfs
+ Best KDE experience out there
+ Yast
+ Good battery life
+ Good resource management
+ No laptop overheating (Thinkpad T440p)
- The repos are a bit lacking (enabling Packman helps a bit
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: stable
Rating: 5
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 3
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they seem to have dropped the ball on this'a one: no WebDAD updates allowed.
. while being fairly feature rich, the Kernal is still flawed:
Printer and External WiFi Drivers will load but do not bother to function.
Pros:
. it now crashes when updating just like Windows ( updates can not be turned off nor by-passed )
. Firefox is finally put in its place as an After Thought.
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Cons:
. it says it has a Firewall yet, while testing - it doesn't seem to block anything.
. while Mpv and Nomad Video are built-in, VLC still hogs its way to the default latter.
Conclusion: I'm not really sure what part about this release is considered Stable.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-02
Votes: 10
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Switching from Windows to Linux and trying about 20 different Linux Distros for a couple of month now, for me the outstanding one is MX Linux it is fast easy to install and yes it picks up WIFI without a problem .Good enough for me to make it my favorite distro.
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Project: FreeNAS
Version: 11.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Easy to install
easy to run
and rocksolid ZFS on the ground
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Too slow with systemd on it. Very slow boot up and very slow shutdown.
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Project: LXLE
Version: 18.04.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Nice and light distro. I just do not understand why it's so heavily PPA bloated, and some software (Seamonkey as default browser) is not really maintained.
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Project: Ubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 1
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Pros- Very smooth and lightweight compared to previous Ubuntu versions. I also installed it on my old laptop (on which I would never install Ubuntu as that would slow it down) and there is no sluggishness at all.
Runs smooth on my desktop (16 GB RAM) and laptop (4 GB RAM) with no noticeable difference at all on them when using it as a daily driver.
Cons- Snap-only availability.
Otherwise this 20.04 version is a great upgrade in terms of speed and stability.
Recommended if you'd like to revisit Ubuntu after using other distros - this one is very different and efficient performance wise compared to previous releases.
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Project: Porteus Kiosk
Version: 5.0.0
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Browser is 8 versions behind and it won't let me install addons/extensions. Sort of defeats the entire purpose of what I was doing. Would be nice if there was some sort of admin support added for that. But it's solid besides that.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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I installed openSUSE for the first time yesterday. One of the things I liked about it is Yast and the default btrfs of course. Kmail and kaccounts also work out of the box, as opposed to Fedora for example. On the other side, something I miss from Ubuntu is the overreaching PPAs, OBS unfortunately does not yet compete with that.
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Project: Lubuntu
Version: 20.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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I have used fresh install for few weeks and haven't encountered any serious problems. HP's printer didn't work out of box. Search function sometimes does not seem to return results (can be user err). Couldn't get work couple of video players which worked in Mint...for some reason? Had a tiny graphical inconvenience with LibreOffice Calc. Lubuntu does not seem always shutdown properly (it gives sometimes a black menu in boot-up). And i liked more the previous Desktop Environment, this new one is a little bit too luxurious for me. And i like more LeafPad over FeatherPad because of simplier name (faster to type in Terminal).
What i specially like is that PCManFM-Qt is fast at loading thumbnails...it was such a frustration with Mint Mate's file manager. Overally considerable fast and stable distro. I was also happy with the perfomance of Lubuntu's live-media on HP's low-end laptop, though there was briefly some U/EFI-related error i think but it didn't affect on functionality.
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Project: Linux Lite
Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 3
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So far no issues, polished, graphically pleasing, the Lite Tweaker tool is awesome.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 2
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one of the fantastic GNU/linux i have used .. A better alternatives for windows users
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Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Running the same installation for 2 years with minor issues only.
+ Repos are filled with updated packages
+ YaST helps a lot in some mundane activities (when you don't want to fully immerse in console kung-fu)
+ Always fresh KDE Plasma
+ Very generous for system resources
- Broken installation of proprietary nvidia drivers
I'm using Linux for more than 10 years now, and tried more popular choices. This is the only desktop distro, I'm not disappointed in.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Yast is a unique great tool. Great support. Enough 3rd party repos. Til now, I've got no complaints.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 2
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Found Leap to be extremely stable and reliable distro with a very good KDE desktop experience, Rock stable and well supported, I have been using Opensuse for over 10 years on my laptop and a couple of servers I maintain for research. I have tried many others, but I need my OS to work all the time, and I have had trouble with some of the more popular distros in terms of stability, particularly ones with rolling releases. Opensuse provides a nice combination of having pretty recent software, and being very stable. Have never and will never use another version of Linux!
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2004
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 0
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Switching from windows to Linux I found Red core is a good option to start and learn.Easy WIFI setup and login.
It is running great.Regards Frank
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Project: Ubuntu
Version: 18.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-06-01
Votes: 4
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PART TWO OF TWO
I've heard that with the 20.04 release, it's just gotten worse. It only supports Snaps, which fit in about as well as a 4-door sedan in an El Paso truck stop off of I-10 (not very well), not to mention all of the issues THAT brings. Such as not being able to modify the files making up the application's configuration, or anything related to it for that matter. Also, Snap packages CANNOT USE HARDWARE ACCELERATION. There's a game I play, called Minetest. The regular version is fully capable of utilizing my GPU, and it runs buttery smooth. The Snap version, however, is unable to access it, and I get an Earth-shattering 1 FPS. Unplayable.
Also, Snap packages update automatically, without user consent. There is no control over this, and it is permanently turned on and cannot be disabled. What OS is this behaviour associated with?
Windows 10. And I'm not going to start going into THAT disaster.
Canonical is slowly walling off their ecosystem, and the ship is sinking fast. I'm jumping ship 06/2020 in favour of Debian. Why? Because it doesn't have any of Canonical's nonsense, and I recommend that you do too before it's too late.
Goodbye Canonical, I won't miss you.
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Project: Slackware Linux
Version: 14.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 9
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Slackware, it just works for me since 2000 :)
It is one of the oldest *nix-like systems I have tried, and used in the past decades, though I am not the most technical guy, I could go along and adjust myself to "make my hands dirty" with editing and adjusting scripts and cfg files. Slackware has come a long way, being today way more complex and also easier to use than back in the days of 2K. Great work of Pat and his Team. Looking forward support their work with buying their new release, when the time will come! :)
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Project: Q4OS
Version: 3.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 1
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Running trinity on single processor 1G of RAM very old laptop with broken screen conneted by VGA to 40 inch TV 1080p. It will do the basic web surfing and watch X264 720p movies with VLC.
Snaped the program SCRCPY and can connect and old android phone with also a broken screen.
Install KODI and Netflix and Newpipe on the phone and watch movies or youtube at 1080p on my TV via a junked phone and laptop. Wasted time turned out to be fun. I use this contraption daily and I smile.
Enjoy
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 1
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This distro is broke! Not able to update third-party drivers, or system.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20200528
Rating: 5
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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Unstable system. Broken very times and only resolved by button power. Packets are too old, cause your core to be of Ubuntu 18.4. Not recommend.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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I use the Gnome spin, best Distro ever, ain't going back to Ubuntu.
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Project: EndeavourOS
Version: 2020.05.08
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 2
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Doug and Bob have given Dragon the name of this OS.
It really as good as Manjaro. I use the XFCE desktop. For me the first thing i added was Pamac, because i am not so used to the command line. EndeavourOS seems just a little bit quicker then Manjaro. The Deepin 2.0 desktop also works very well.
Every thing seems to work out of the box using a wired connection. WiFi gives me still some work to do with a AUR package for the correct driver. Same trouble as with Manjaro: HPLIP is not detecting my P1102W printer device because of a faulty description in the hplip data file.
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Project: EasyOS
Version: 2.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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Few rough edges. Could be difficult for incomers not familiar with less familiar protocols. Slow booting.
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Project: Linux Mint
Version: 19.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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Well Mint was superb until 19.3. I don't remember if there was any web-speed delay (Ie: you clink a link and sometimes and there's a ~10-20 second delay until the page loads and that's not good when it happens over and over...other OSs don't seem to have this issue) on previous Mint versions but it can get pretty bad on 19.3 so I had to take a break.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 1
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I switched to Linux 6 months ago, the obvious distribution that got recommended to me was Ubuntu obviously. While I did like it, it actually made me want to switch back to Windows 10. To me then: Linux == a buggy, orange ugly, resource hungry OS. Then I found I was just using a particular distribution running a particular desktop environment. After trying the KDE variant of Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro and openSUSE, I fell in love with the latter and decided to stick with it. YaST, zypper, btrfs, OBS ... are brilliant. The only issue I recall having is getting vanilla TeX Live along with latexindent package and its Perl modules to work, but I swiftly got it done thanks to the community's support.
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Project: openSUSE
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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I found Leap to be extremely stable and reliable distro with a very good KDE desktop experience, but I'm more of a rolling release guy so I moved to Tumbleweed, which I surprisingly found to have only a few issues, most related to nVidia. I enjoy the parody videos they make too.
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Project: Ufficio Zero
Version: 2.0-alpha
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 1
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I "gnome-wrote" the distro onto a 16gig stick and loaded it into memory (the computer's - not mine).
It went without hitches or glitches and I finished up with a pleasant picture of sunset engulfing a picturesque Italian village by the seaside. Instinctively I was looking for rod and reel - but decided to postpone the adventure.
Putting the cursor on the menu button showed up "Linux Mint 19.3. Tricia" - so I guess, some input from that distro can be expected. If you actually press the above-mentioned button, a whole lot of useful programs come up - from important tools that people handling software installed in Computers might need - to all sorts of office programs and more.
If you feel adventurous, you can try "synaptic package manager" but you won't get in unless you type the password : "ufficiozero" in without quotation-marks.
I was also happy the distro found and installed my printer and scanner without me having to tell it so.
Summing up: if you want a well equipped Desktop distro, this is the one to go for. "Windows-refugees" welcome. What you would expect in a good distro - it's all there :)
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Project: ArcoLinux
Version: 20.5.7
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 4
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Arcolinux is a beautiful,stable and always up-to-date distro.
There are no limits to Arch, you do what you want, you install what you want and what you want is what Arcolinux gives you access to.
Straight in the installation process, Arcolinuix let you choose what softwares you think you will use and this is a kind of freedom that is given to you by Arcolinux.
All the tools and tricks can easily be obtained on their website. It is your choice to use them or not.
Finally, big thanks to the Arcolinux team to let a soon-not-noob-anymore like me to use Arch.
Have fun!
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Project: CRUX
Version: 3.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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Crux is not for the faint of heart.
You have complete control over your machine, but you have to be willing to learn the trade.
There's a small but competent community to help, but you're expected to do your homework upfront.
Once you've managed to get your system up and running there's no turning back - at least for me. Love it.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20200528
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 5
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Ich wollte eine stabile Distro. Hatte vorher Lubuntu, ca. 7 Jahre lang. An Programmen mussten Keepassxc und vor allem Vmware Player laufen (für Windows, Photoshop, Bryce und dergleichen). Alles läuft super. Ich bin vollends zufrieden. Manjaro hatte ich davor getestet, Vmware lief aber nicht wirklich gut. Deshalb KDEneon!
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 4.1
Rating: 7
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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I've been experimenting with this distro for a few days now and, by and large, found it quite impressive. The Falkon browser is a nice touch. There's even a Windows 7 theme to make users transferring from Microsoft feel more comfortable. That said, I don't think this is a distro suitable for newbies to Linux. The learning curve is much steeper than with Ubuntu or Mint etc.
But now for my major gripe. Another reviewer pointed out that his laptop(s) had become really hot running OpenMandriva. I'm running this distro on an old Windows 7 desktop PC and the noise from the cooling fan is horrendous! As an experiment, I switched back to Mint and immediately the noise level dropped. This is a bit of show-stopper for me because it means watching videos or DVDs is almost impossible! Shame because OpenMandriva is a really nice distro.
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Project: Manjaro Linux
Version: 20.0.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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J'utilisais Ubuntu depuis un certain temps, tout en essayant d'autres distros à l'occasion.Je suis tombé sur manjaro (merci Distrowatch!) et pour moi c'est le meilleur bistro Linux que j'ai essayé depuis longtemps.
Autant XFCE que Gnome, mes 2 DE préférés, ils vont très bien, mais j'ai un faible pour gnome.
Comme n'importe quel Linux, il faut travailler un peu, c'est stable et rapide, et que dire d'AUR, je ne pourrai plus jamais m'en passer.
Tout ça sur ma machine qui a 9 ans...
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Project: Feren OS
Version: 2019.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-05-31
Votes: 0
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Personally I love Feren OS. Very easy to install and manage especially if your a beginner in the Linux world. I really enjoy the new updated version with KDE Plasma integrated in it cause I'm a huge fan of customization. all around its one of my favorites because I am not an "advanced Linux user" if you will and Feren OS is super user friendly and highly customization.
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Project: MX Linux
Version: 19.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2020-05-30
Votes: 2
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Yes it is a little clonky, but so am I. Suits both of us just fine. Like running a 57 Chev with 3 2s and 4 on the floor. Not as fast as a Toyota turbo, but it sure feels good and sounds good.
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