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.
Version: 7.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-07-29 Votes: 2
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.
Version: 7.1 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-06-17 Votes: 3
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.
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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Project: Liya Version: 2.0 Rating: 5 Date: 2024-08-21 Votes: 0
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.
Project: Liya Version: 7.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-07-29 Votes: 2
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.
Project: Liya Version: 7.1 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-06-17 Votes: 3
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.
Project: Liya Version: n4si Rating: 5 Date: 2023-05-22 Votes: 14
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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