AerynOS

Reader supplied reviews for AerynOS Average rating 7.4 from 18 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on AerynOS? 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: -- 2026.05.22025.12 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: 2026.05.2 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-05-17 Country: The Netherlands Votes: 2 I happened to stumble across AerynOS, liked what I read and decided to give it a go. I installed it on an old Dell Optiplex 7010. Now, pre-installation steps are a bit archaic as you need to create partitions manually before starting the installer. But the steps are explained quite well on the home page of the project. First tip: destroy the previous setup of the disk by having GPartED create a new partition table. Second tip: set up the partition where the OS is to be installed as XFS. Make it *at least * 40GB. although I recommend you make it no less 100GB. The installer is text-based. Read every step carefully and make sure you follow its instructions. If you make any mistake during the setup procedure you will have to abort the entire procedure and start over. While the install ISO boots into a Gnome desktop, during install you can choose from a number of different DEs. I chose the cosmic desktop environment. The entire installation takes serveral minutes. I like the cosmic desktop quite a lot. It’s very modern, yet still modest on the resources. The first thing you probably want to do is install some software. Go to the cosmic store, start typing the first few letters of the software package you look for… and you will get no results. That is because you will need activate the Flatpak sources first (click the cog wheel). There is a minor glitch when you install Flatpak packages, in that after you have installed a package, the proper icon for that package doesn’t show up. A reboot will fix that. What I really like about AerynOS is how it handles sleep mode. My Optiplex 7010 is so old that BIOS doesn’t have S3 sleep mode. The best is supports is S2 deep. Now in Windows 11 I could put the box in full sleep mode and wake it up successfully. OpenSuse however, wasn’t able to put the box in sleep mode at all, but rather in some sort of doze mode where the power light stayed on and the fan of the power supply kept turning. Solus OS did put the box in sleep mode, but after a prolonged period of sleep (for example, all night), the box could still be woken up but the desktop was frozen. AerynOS on the other hand handles sleep and wake-up perfectly. Hasn’t let me down a single time thus far. Another plus: while the creators still consider AerynOS to be alpha, I find it quite stable and usable. Daily driver? Hmm, maybe not just yet. The only downside is the lack of software. It is quite understandable that the devs focus their attention more on developing the os rather than making more native software packages available. Still, 9 out 10. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.02 Rating: 5 Date: 2026-02-17 Country: Russia Votes: 5 I remember that the project was once called SerpentOS, and it really sounded modern and strict but concise, I honestly don't understand why they rebranded, especially with such a frivolous name. To be honest, I expected more after a year, but everything is still in place. There is no nvidia support out of the box, and you will not be able to assemble the driver yourself without crutches, keep this in mind. You have only 2 options: use the noveau driver or open source modules that will cost you half the performance of the proprietary Nvidia drivers. The developers explain this situation by saying that they all use Intel and AMD, and apparently there will be no support for nvidia and dkms modules in the repo either in the summer or this year. The responsiveness and smoothness of KDE is terrible, sometimes it's smooth, but after a second it twitches and feels heavy. I can't say that about other DEs for now. In general, my verdict is as follows. If you own an Nvidia card and like KDE, you don't need this, as you'll have to do too much work yourself due to the laziness of the developers in that issue. I like the project and would really like to stay here, but due to the terrible user experience and lack of Nvidia support, I am disappointed that I cannot do so. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025.12 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-30 Votes: 10 What I expected from Linux is the answer AerynOS from 1997. I am very happy to using it. I am a Linux lover. I always tested all distros out there. İt is my hobby . It is my first choice to use it. Why because it is very well made. I can write lot of things but no need for this. They well it done. So only who are like computers not for only gaming. For how operating system it would be done. İt is in alpha stage and i did not experience anything wrong. I use it since march 2025. And it is what it is. İf you like computer logic. What it is be. This is your distro. I realy love it. Thanks for all people who want to make this this distro a live. It is the only distro makes difference for me . Very thank all of them who makes this distro a live. Sorry my engilish. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 18 reader reviews of AerynOS...