AlmaLinux OS

Reader supplied reviews for AlmaLinux OS Average rating 8.0 from 71 review(s) What are your thoughts on AlmaLinux OS? 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: -- 10.19.78.10 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: 9.7 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-30 Country: Portugal Votes: 11 I found it awesome. It's easy to configure, easy to install and to get it ready to use. I dare say that it is an alternative for beginners that want to try new flavors of Linux, not really to the ones that are doing that so necessary transition from Windows, but OK! I enjoy its performance, nothing is laggy, and the problems I had (laggy keyboard and power mode switching) were solved with the automatic updates, so I didn't need to search, run commands and nothing like that. With GNOME interface, it integrated very well with the drivers, such as display, Bluetooth, WiFi, sound, I didn't need to do anything to make them work. No problem with codecs and videos at youtube. So it's by itself a good distribution for a daily basis usage. Tested here with an OctaCore Core i7 (8th gen), 16GB RAM and SSD machine, Dell Latitude 7300, that I'm still using only for daily tasks most of the times (browser, email, online shopping, social network, government portals... etc...). But working with developer tools (IntelliJ, Eclipse, VS Code and JVM) on it is also awesome (even though I didn't spend too much time with that yet). I'm using it since 2 years and I'm not intended to switch to another distro for the next years. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 10.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-01 Votes: 12 I use AlmaLinux 10.0 KDE on my Dell Latitude 7490 notebook and I'm very satisfied. I haven't noticed any performance issue, haven't notices any software crash, the system is really fast, stabel and very custumisable. Kindly recommend to install flatpak, according to get the most popular software available. I tried Rocky Linux 10 also, which is also stabel, but the Alma Linux 10 have newer packages and system components installed. This is really personal recommendation, but I prefer KDE Plasma comparing to Gnome. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 10.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-10-12 Votes: 0 This new release of Alma broke my system! I wanted to switch from CentOS to another supported distro since CentOS 8’s support is ending this year and the tool looked like it worked and transferred everything over from Alma, but it didn’t. I needed to reboot like any other Red Hat-derived server OS does for the changes to take effect and like anyone else, I wanted to make sure the system was updated to the latest version with bug fixes, patches, the usual stuff and the nightmare began. Errors updating applications, errors updating system files- kernel, etc., freezes of the system that forced me to shut down the computer by power button to be responsive again and general instability with this release. Maybe an enterprise type distro shouldn’t focus on rushing out another version just because it seems and actually work on fixing bugs, etc. I can’t daily say that the developers refuse to fix bugs, but how is a release from an enterprise distro so buggy and unstable? I do not recommend this distro, it’s better to find another enterprise distro- Red Hat based or not. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 71 reader reviews of AlmaLinux OS...