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Reader supplied reviews for Liya
Average rating
6.5 from 8 review(s)
Version: 2.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-09-14
Votes: 1
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We must understand that we needed a Linux for users who, coming from Windows, wouldn't be concerned with understanding, fixing, or innovating in depth like the experts do. Here, we simply want a stable, intuitive, ready-to-use Linux system, perhaps with minimal customizations that some might want, and not much more, just like Liya, at least for average users, not for developers (not without including them at all). This objective is faithfully met here for the most part. Congratulations to its author, and keep it up --and moving it forward...
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Version: 2.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-29
Votes: 3
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Excellent Distribution based on Arch.
My laptop is 8 years old, it is an Intel Core i5 7200U with 8GB RAM and it works faster and consumes less RAM than with CachyOS.
It is a fairly clean installation, only with the necessary programs, nothing blotware.
As a graphic manager to install/uninstall programs brings Manjaro, which is much better than Octopi.
I had my performance doubts by carrying Cinnamon as a desktop environment, but it has surprised me, it works very fast.
I plan to use it for a while to see how it works in the long term.
My congratulations to the creator of Liya.
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Version: 2.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-28
Votes: 1
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I've been a windows 10 user since 2015, my PC has no TPM 2.0 for 11.
Was a good time to try out linux, Chose liya because a local youtuber made a video on it.
Installation was nice and clean, no extra options, just simple.
The default collection of apps was also suited for windows switchers,
Onlyoffice (which looks like MS Office), Brave (privacy focused) and Proton VPN (which is sad because it needs an account). Its quite snappy, performs well better than windows 10.
Cons:
Default wallpaper is a bit too bland.
Overall, its a good go to use Liya.
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Version: 2.4
Rating: 3
Date: 2025-07-25
Votes: 0
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I reviewed this version less than a week or so ago. I'm not going to go over it again in any detail, instead I'll stick just with the points as they stood out to me. This distro feels like a pre-release, not a full release. There's issues, maybe minor but I don't know, but they are evident during and immediately after installation. There's prompts during installation to confirm or reject unfamiliar components. Without the dev's knowledge, who's to know what to say yes or no to? I chose to confirm all choices given, the install completed but with errors. Maybe I could have tried again, giving the opposite responses. At the end of it all I decided to drop it all together. I'll look again in the future, hopefully the dev will have polished it some more.
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Version: 2.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-08-21
Votes: 3
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As already mentioned in Jeff Siegel's review on August 19, 2024, the distro is easy to install via Calamares and once installed it is fluid and fast. It comes with good pre-installed applications (such as Brave and OnlyOffice), as well as the official Pamac package manager from Manjaro. But it stops there. When trying to update the distro (which should be somewhat trivial), either through Pamac or the command line, in addition to requiring the confirmation of several keys (an annoying process), in the end it presents an update error. I preferred not to continue testing. With other better options based on Arch Linux, the Liya distro should not even have been released as a final version for now.
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Version: 7.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-29
Votes: 2
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This is purely my personal opinion after switching between various distros for my old hardware. Liya Linux is just right; it doesn't have too many features, fitting in the sense that it meets my needs. For example, one app for one function: for videos, I only use Celuloid, and for image viewing, I use Pix. Essentially, it hits the mark. I'm very comfortable using this version of Liya Linux.
The theme used is also comfortable, and the chosen icons are standard but pleasing to the eye. The overall appearance looks great without compromising the comfort of use.
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Version: 7.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-06-17
Votes: 3
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The resume from my test (in a VM) is: Lack of quality control. Here are some points I want to mention.
Dependencies from Calamares Installer should be removed. Root partition too small and the system is also bloated.
Pamac-AUR isn't well configured, and it shouldn't include a custom kernel with a custom grub config.
Chaotic-AUR repo shouldn't be included in pamac.conf. Is just too dangerous for the target users.
These are the flaws that I noticed in less than hour test. I am sure I am missing other flaws.
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Version: n4si
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-05-22
Votes: 14
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So this got a quick whirl in a VM and checks out Ok-ish in my opinion.
Good:
Arch
Cinnamon
Questionable:
"Global" isn't too reassuring, site gives zero clue as to who or how many are involved
Undeclared:
previously AnitaOS - for which information is scarce to rare
So great with the good points, but the project should now prove some longevity - Anita yesterday, Liya today and ___ tomorrow?
Some more info about the team behind the distro would do wonders for trustworthiness about Liya. Are they in Sweden, USA and UK,... or China, Russia and Bangladesh? Team of two, or twenty?
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Latest Reviews
Project: Liya
Version: 2.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-09-14
Votes: 1
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We must understand that we needed a Linux for users who, coming from Windows, wouldn't be concerned with understanding, fixing, or innovating in depth like the experts do. Here, we simply want a stable, intuitive, ready-to-use Linux system, perhaps with minimal customizations that some might want, and not much more, just like Liya, at least for average users, not for developers (not without including them at all). This objective is faithfully met here for the most part. Congratulations to its author, and keep it up --and moving it forward...
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Project: Liya
Version: 2.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-29
Votes: 3
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Excellent Distribution based on Arch.
My laptop is 8 years old, it is an Intel Core i5 7200U with 8GB RAM and it works faster and consumes less RAM than with CachyOS.
It is a fairly clean installation, only with the necessary programs, nothing blotware.
As a graphic manager to install/uninstall programs brings Manjaro, which is much better than Octopi.
I had my performance doubts by carrying Cinnamon as a desktop environment, but it has surprised me, it works very fast.
I plan to use it for a while to see how it works in the long term.
My congratulations to the creator of Liya.
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Project: Liya
Version: 2.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-07-28
Votes: 1
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I've been a windows 10 user since 2015, my PC has no TPM 2.0 for 11.
Was a good time to try out linux, Chose liya because a local youtuber made a video on it.
Installation was nice and clean, no extra options, just simple.
The default collection of apps was also suited for windows switchers,
Onlyoffice (which looks like MS Office), Brave (privacy focused) and Proton VPN (which is sad because it needs an account). Its quite snappy, performs well better than windows 10.
Cons:
Default wallpaper is a bit too bland.
Overall, its a good go to use Liya.
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Project: Liya
Version: 2.4
Rating: 3
Date: 2025-07-25
Votes: 0
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I reviewed this version less than a week or so ago. I'm not going to go over it again in any detail, instead I'll stick just with the points as they stood out to me. This distro feels like a pre-release, not a full release. There's issues, maybe minor but I don't know, but they are evident during and immediately after installation. There's prompts during installation to confirm or reject unfamiliar components. Without the dev's knowledge, who's to know what to say yes or no to? I chose to confirm all choices given, the install completed but with errors. Maybe I could have tried again, giving the opposite responses. At the end of it all I decided to drop it all together. I'll look again in the future, hopefully the dev will have polished it some more.
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Project: Liya
Version: 2.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-08-21
Votes: 3
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As already mentioned in Jeff Siegel's review on August 19, 2024, the distro is easy to install via Calamares and once installed it is fluid and fast. It comes with good pre-installed applications (such as Brave and OnlyOffice), as well as the official Pamac package manager from Manjaro. But it stops there. When trying to update the distro (which should be somewhat trivial), either through Pamac or the command line, in addition to requiring the confirmation of several keys (an annoying process), in the end it presents an update error. I preferred not to continue testing. With other better options based on Arch Linux, the Liya distro should not even have been released as a final version for now.
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Project: Liya
Version: 7.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-29
Votes: 2
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This is purely my personal opinion after switching between various distros for my old hardware. Liya Linux is just right; it doesn't have too many features, fitting in the sense that it meets my needs. For example, one app for one function: for videos, I only use Celuloid, and for image viewing, I use Pix. Essentially, it hits the mark. I'm very comfortable using this version of Liya Linux.
The theme used is also comfortable, and the chosen icons are standard but pleasing to the eye. The overall appearance looks great without compromising the comfort of use.
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Project: Liya
Version: 7.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-06-17
Votes: 3
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The resume from my test (in a VM) is: Lack of quality control. Here are some points I want to mention.
Dependencies from Calamares Installer should be removed. Root partition too small and the system is also bloated.
Pamac-AUR isn't well configured, and it shouldn't include a custom kernel with a custom grub config.
Chaotic-AUR repo shouldn't be included in pamac.conf. Is just too dangerous for the target users.
These are the flaws that I noticed in less than hour test. I am sure I am missing other flaws.
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Project: Liya
Version: n4si
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-05-22
Votes: 14
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So this got a quick whirl in a VM and checks out Ok-ish in my opinion.
Good:
Arch
Cinnamon
Questionable:
"Global" isn't too reassuring, site gives zero clue as to who or how many are involved
Undeclared:
previously AnitaOS - for which information is scarce to rare
So great with the good points, but the project should now prove some longevity - Anita yesterday, Liya today and ___ tomorrow?
Some more info about the team behind the distro would do wonders for trustworthiness about Liya. Are they in Sweden, USA and UK,... or China, Russia and Bangladesh? Team of two, or twenty?
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