antiX

Reader supplied reviews for antiX Average rating 8.4 from 146 review(s) 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 antiX? 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: -- 2623.2222119.517.516.31513.212118.5 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: 26 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-06-27 Country: United States Votes: 24 Without hesitation, I place antiX firmly within my top three favorite linux distributions forming a trio alongside Ubuntu and Arch. While that specific combination might sound a bit crazy to some linux fans due to how radically different they are, this absolute gem of an operating system earns its spot. Its versatility is unmatched. It performs exceptionally well across an unbelievable range of hardware, fresh life into ancient machines like an old Athlon II 245 processor or a legacy compaq presario laptop. Yet, when installed on modern AMD and Intel systems, it delivers blazing speeds and incredibly low resource usage. Admittedly, configuring audio and wifi drivers can be a bit tricky on modern hardware. This is especially true if your setup relies on proprietary nvidia graphics cards paired with monitor-integrated speakers. However, this isn't a dealbreaker. Anyone can easily address these minor post-install hurdles with a little bit of research and basic troubleshooting knowledge within 30 minutes of a fresh installation. On the flip side, if you are reviving older legacy PCs, you will usually experience zero issues right out of the box. Beyond its raw performance, I absolutely love the nostalgic aesthetic of the default ice window manager. It gives the system a classic, retro feel without sacrificing usability. Furthermore, the sheer volume of built-in system tools included by default is fantastic, giving you complete control over your environment. It remains one of the most efficient, capable distros available today. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-06-18 Country: United States Votes: 16 I have put this review off for a number of years, because I have kept admiring the sheer SPEED of antiX, but kept returning to other (very good, but slower) OSes for ease of use. But this time, after using half of the top 50 DistroWatch distros I decided to stick it out. I am now over the top of the learning curve, and I can say the view is fantastic! I suppose the speed of something like Puppy Linux is comparable, since both distros run mostly or wholly in RAM, but antiX is vastly more friendly (although it may not seem like it at first). Resources are fairly slim on my 2018 hardware. So I appreciate the fact that RAM usage out of the box with a fully set up antiX is about 513MB out of my 8GB available. Screens update nearly instantly on antiX, which was not the case even with MX or Cachy. Tools on MX and antiX are TOP KNOTCH, with the ability to very quickly back up an ISO image of my running system, and copy it to a bootable USB at will in case of borked systems after upgrades, especially on Arch distros. Yes, I kind of miss my use of XFCE, because I have been used to it for about a decade, but iceWM is adequate and responsible for much of the usable speed of antiX. And the fact that I am sporting an Anti Fascist distro appeals to me. If you are interested in this facet, I recommend Rick Steve's "Fascism in Europe" show, available on YouTube. So antiX is now my speedy daily driver. FASTEST, smallest and most reliable over any other distro I have found, and now with 6.6.119 kernel. YES, there will be a learning curve if you are coming from any distro that uses KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc. Window Managers are pretty basic, but they get the job done. I would say it is approximately the learning curve of Enlightenment or Moksha desktop environments. But antiX seems less apt to mess up once you have it set. A solid 10/10 OS, and my kudos to the Greek developers! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-05-05 Country: Italy Votes: 19 If freedom means something Antix is the answer. If you want a system working from live/rescue to modern pc's passing through old computers restoring them to work with dignity this is the proper answer. Without whistles and bells of desktops like Gnome,KDE etc. it gives you the freedom to use quite everything you have. (by the way without the limits of other freedom o.s, because you, unfortunately, need some not free software for making your hardware running: this is the real world). Not all is perfect (menuses in languages other than English are not completed, some, few, languages are missing, for instance Interlingua), but it is quite perfect, with Debian inside. You have all the tools you need to handle for the better your computer for work or fun. This version is an update to Trixie, so if you know previous versions you will be accostumed to it, because this is just another step forward. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 146 reader reviews of antiX...