antiX

Reader supplied reviews for antiX Average rating 8.3 from 121 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 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: -- 23.2222119.517.516.31513.212118.5 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: 23.2 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-09 Votes: 0 It faciliates the process of using the window managers at hand (Fluxbox,JWM,IceWM,herbstluft) by giving A LOT of specific tools to tweak things you would normally have to do via command line(which i don't have a problem with,but i appreciate the ease). That's kind of a problem this distro has tho,it is somewhat crowded with specific tooling for specific purposes,going way beyond just the general settings that most linux distros have,it really registers to me in the same camp as distros like Legacy OS or Endless partially bcz of that. It should be also noted that while not explicitly marketed as a SystemD protest distro,this is made by people from the MX Linux team,and in their website there are multiple hyperlinks explaining why SystemD is bad. I don't mind SystemD but i think their rejection of it is an interesting mentality you can feel the repercussions of when you use the distro. The development team also has a strong communist leaning inside of it,the name editions of their distros are named after historically important people or organizations in Leftism and they even used to ship with The Communist Manifesto and Jacobin Magazine as browser bookmarks. You may do with that information whatever you wish to. I like how lightweight the distro is,it only ends up taking 280 mbs out of the 4 gigs of ram on the laptop i run it on,which im not sure if is some crazy optimization or just the window managers. The debian base makes it so updates are infrequent,which for my current setup i also like. Overall,i really like this distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-04-24 Votes: 14 I just started using Antix after having run Lubuntu for a period of time but also having tried others. Antix thus far has demonstrated superior performance compared to Lubuntu and some others when it comes to running mulitple programs simultaneously. It does not page excessively or become unresponsive leaving me sitting unable to work. I am using an older Dell dual core 64 bit machine with 4G ram and a physical hdd. Antix is not thrashing it too pieces or overloading the hdd with too much work. I am impressed. This is how I experienced Linux years ago; runs like a tractor and is as reliable as one. This machine still has life left and with Antix I will probably get it and I can acually get some work done on it. It has proven itself to be a great distro in my situation. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.2 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-03-31 Votes: 14 antiX: A lightweight OS with highly configurable lower-end desktop environments (DEs) avoiding 'systemd' init by design. When compared to the previous versions, the packages have been updated, more GUI tools to perform maintenance and configuration. Overall, an evolution of the OS, no revolution. Pros: P1) lightweight OS, hence suitable for older HW P2) many custom scripts/GUIs to handle make some maintenance tasks easily doable without resorting to console P3) built-in advert blocker (edits of /etc/hosts) P4) several editions: full (recommended for newcomers), base, core and net. P5) runit + SysVinit and several (un)official init variants as a test-bed P6) custom kernel(s) P7) many live-USB-system capabilities, e.g. can be installed on a USB stick and updated as an up-to-date live medium P8) friendly community/forum interaction Cons|Beware: C1) some may desire a more full-fledged DE with all the bells and whistles (some of them can be installed in antiX but not officially supported, i.e. in case of problems you usually get support on the forum but its scope may be limited since not all users may be familiar with that particular DE) C2) X11, no official release with wayland (some users experimented with wayland) C3) if you require packages dependent on 'systemd', you are out of luck if 'systemd' is a hard-dependency (though snaps can be made to work with some user intervention, best used as permanently unsquashed), then MX Linux may be a better alternative for you. Notice that P1) does not mean that browsing web is made more lightweight - the underlying OS consumes less resources but modern browsers and web-pages have become resource hungry irrespective of the underlying system. Disclaimer: I've been a user of antiX for quite some time on mostly lower-end HW (starting my Linux experience with Manjaro, trying out *buntu, namely Lubuntu, and Debian), originally using stable and testing, currently using stable only. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 121 reader reviews of antiX...