AgarimOS

Reader supplied reviews for AgarimOS Average rating 9.0 from 2 review(s) What are your thoughts on AgarimOS? 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: -- 20251106 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: 20251021 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-10-25 Votes: 0 The maker of AgarimOS has made a very pleasant looking configuration of Void Linux with their chosen themes and customizations. I'd claim this Distro is a very well put together one for people who want to have their Johnsons dipped in the Void, but would prefer a more streamlined Desktop experience. Installation is the same as with Void though, which -even with its very helpful nature and straighforwardness- is definitely not as good for the masses as Calamares for example. Nevertheless, if the installer does not scare you away, AgarimOS can provide a very pleasant Desktop Void out of the box. I chose to try the MATE version in an ASUS Transformer Book T101 that has an Intel Atom x5-Z8350, 4GB RAM (and a broken Touchscreen which I have disabled completely by disconnecting... so no Touchscreen/Tablet Mode impressions this time) I have had a few other distros installed in it previously, like standard Void with XFCE and Mint XFCE, and I can say straight away that Mint does have the better Out of the Box experience, but I still prefer both Void and AgarimOS for other reasons Boot times: Comparable with standard Void, which means definitely acceptable even in a low powered 2-in-1 like this and personally I feel that Void and AgarimOS booted noticeably faster than Mint. From my other experiences I think Antix might be the boot time king, but AgarimOS is definitely close. Graphical Login: Same as with Void, the login takes the screen rotation as if one would hold it vertically. I recall Mint having this the right way. Could be fixed with some additional configuration of the LightDM Greeter config file, but it is still annoying albeit not deal breaking for me personally. Though I suppose this issue is not that widespread... I can't say how popular these 2-in-1 Laptops are. Hardware: Bluetooth, Custom fn-Key Functions (Volume, Screen Brightness etc.) and Wifi worked OOB. Sound on the other hand had the same issue as with standard Void. Dummy Audio was offered alongside the HDMI audio. I managed to get the speakers to work by doing the same as with standard Void; blacklist snd_hdmi_lpe_audio and install alsa-ucm-conf and sof-firmware. The 3.5mm jack still does not work though, I remember getting it to work with standard Void... so still need to fiddle a bit. General Usage: As expected. Feels as snappy as it can with a low power pc like this. In my opinion a good balance between "eye candy" and user experience in general. So, in a nutshell. AgarimOS feels like a great choise for a low power PC like this. Though it needs to be emphasized that with a bit more "obscure" hardware like Atom the OOB experience might not be as good as with Mint for example, but if one is comfortable with some additional configuration AgarimOS does bring the Voids fast and powerfull package manager and overall faster an a tad snappier feel to the table. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20251021 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-10-22 Votes: 5 Agarimos and Agafos is amazing and preconfigurate distribution based on VoidLinux for the people like me who have not enaught experience to install VoidLinux in a Macbook Air mi2013 and everethink working well. I try already many times to install VoidLinux with the Base ISO runit and after install KDE, KDE work but there is some intervention have to be donne for all the system working well, especialy the stanby wen you close the screen have diificulty to wake up i try many configuration to solve, but i can't. Ana way i recommend you Agarimos OS, me i install Agaf OS because i would like to stay Vanilla close to VoidLinux after removing some packages already installed by the team (but is my concept) don't do this because Agarimos and Agafos are very very nice and working like any others distro , Debian, ArchLinux, Manjaro and don't forget you are inside VoidLinux the best rolling Release actually, fast, simple, you can't brake it, it's very strong. A big Thanks to Jose Santos and other best people who are working on this Nice distro, you find video on you tube from jose who explain the distro and the concept. Thanks again, Mika sorry for my english Was this review helpful? Yes No