Mageia

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Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.3 from 110 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: -- cauldron987.165.14.1321 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: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-01-29 Votes: 71 The Mageia onlne community is very helpful to any questions on the forums or mailinglists. My experience with Mageia 9 until now can be summed up in "it just works". Material detection is excellent and easy with the CCM. I highly recommend it ! I look forward to many more versions of Mageia. Please stay far away from Snap & Snapd. I let several recommended DNF and urpme -cleanup procedures run in the terminal, recovering disk space while enjoying an up-to-date Mageia again. Awkward however that the version upgrade dropped some 80 kernel packages, i.e. vmlinuz'es, on the machine. It looks like the script installs every single kernel package since the initial realease. There must be a better way, to be implemented when version 9 comes. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-01-27 Votes: 50 Mageia is my saviour! Long story short, a bug in mesa renders any arch-based (and bleeding edge) distro unusable with VMWare, so I needed a replacement for Arch. OpenSuse Tumbleweed is now affected by this bug too and I don't like Fedora. Debian testing is too much trouble for me for a daily driver in a VM. So I tried Mageia 9. The KDE edition feels slow, not responsive, and eats 1.3G of ram, but that's KDE (not specific to Mageia). I then tried the Cinnamon edition and that's perfectly for me. Light (750M), fast, and pretty up-to-date. I could find all packages I need (with the exception of jdupes which was super easy to compile from source). The default install was about 5.5G which is fine and already includes most of what I need (with not much bloat). The Network Center app doesn't seem to care the least about IPv6 but I could configure it through resolv.conf and sysctl (thanks to #mageia irc channel). It's been running for a week now. No issue, no crash, no drama, it just works. And it's very well polished. I'll probably stick to Mageia when the mesa issue is fixed. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-01-13 Votes: 130 Used Mandrake Linux back when and it was the first Linux distro that worked smoothly for me. Since that time I've used every major(and some minor) distro available. But have always returned to Debian. Thought I'd try something new, so installed Mageia on a spare SSD. I was expecting niggles and bugs compared to Debian 12. But, for me, it was easier, smoother and much less hard work than Debian has become. The Control Centre is better than YAST on OpenSuse. Software availability is excellent. The whole experience has been a revelation and I now use Mageia as my default OS replacing Debian (which is quite a statement from a Debian user of years standing). I can't recommend Mageia enough. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 110 reader reviews of Mageia...