Mageia

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Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.4 from 227 review(s) What are your thoughts on Mageia? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- cauldron9-beta187.165.14.1321 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: cauldron Rating: 10 Date: 2023-03-18 Votes: 201 Mageia Cauldron just works, as developers need it, for their own work which is to develop :-) Cauldron is not for the casual user anyhow, prefer the stable version for you/family and friends but if you're a bit adventurous, you may contribute (forums are welcoming your contributions to getting better versions :p as a usual user, an advanced user or a developer that can add some missing functionalities, everybody is welcome ;-) as I've been long time ago o_O) Cauldron may become Mageia 9 thanks to your help and feedback (bad can be corrected, better can be enhanced and provide further services) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9-beta1 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-03-09 Votes: 173 Mageia has improved so much, I give it a 10. One big improvement in 2019 was using dnf for the package manager. It works great, along with urpmi. Most of us know dnf from Fedora. Another huge improvement IMO is the addition of Gnome 43. I only use Gnome 40+ desktops. IMO Gnome 43 is light years ahead of everything else. I also like that Mageia 9 is a rolling release. Mageia 9, seems to be very stable, but is customizable. Lots of rpms available for Mageia, and lots of software on the repository. I use laptops, and my laptops run best on kernel 5.15. I was able to install a 5.15.98 LTS kernel from rpm finder. It loaded right up, and runs great. I removed the other kernels with dnf. If anything negative? I'm used to running the latest Firefox version. Mageia has it stuck on Firefox version 102.8 ESR Haven't used the 102.8 enough to know if I like it better than the latest version 110. For a terminal, I always install the XFCE4-Terminal. It is IMO the best terminal emulator, out there. I wish you would add it on all the desktop types, including Gnome. I look forward to many more versions of Mageia. Please stay far away from Snap & Snapd. Terry K Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9-alpha1 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-02-22 Votes: 170 ll works out of the box, the only thing you need to do is install Nvidia drivers from official site. Plenty of software, not only for desktop but a server as well. It ships with Mageia Control Center - something similar to Yast from OpenSUSE. I am using software RAID on my system, which not all distros can handle during installation. Although the release cycle is not as fast as others, if something works why would you try to fix it? One minor thing, wallpapers could be more interesting. Overall good job Mageia team! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 227 reader reviews of Mageia...