ArcoLinux

Reader supplied reviews for ArcoLinux Average rating 9.3 from 112 review(s) What are your thoughts on ArcoLinux? 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: -- 19.06.118.12.7 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 19.06.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2019-06-12 Votes: 4 Gives you something that looks and feels like Arch, but without the installation hassles of the 'real thing'! Love the OpenBox version: performs nicely, everything easily installable from the repos, nice Conky by default. There are only two criticisms I'd make, and which stop me giving this 10/10. First, its default text editor is an unregistered copy of Sublime. It's a very good text editor, but it requires registration, is closed source and registration requires parting with something like US$80. Or you could just continue to use an unregistered copy in violation of its license, I guess! Point being, it's a good *option* to include, but to make it the **default** text editor (when truly open source alternatives like notepadqq exist for the taking) seems an odd choice. My second criticism would be that it uses a heavily-modified .bashrc out of the box to alias a bunch of commands which, in my personal opinion, shouldn't be. In particular, I'd call out the aliasing of "ps" to "ps auxf", which means a ps -ef | grep X won't work. "ls" is also aliased (unnecessarily in my view) to "ls --color=auto". I know why they've chosen to create the aliases they have, and there is a certain method to it... but, in my opinion, you shouldn't aliases basic commands in a way that they cease to behave in a default fashion. By all means add *new* commands which represent a basic_command+preferences, but don't make it impossible to run the basic command in the first place! Anyway, two minor niggles aside, it's an excellent distro and my main desktop of choice right now, and I'm very happy with it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 19.06.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-06-11 Votes: 9 An excellent Distro (!) I downloaded the version of ArcoLinux Deepin 19.06.1 and installed fast and error-free by the installer Calamares. After installation all the updates occurred efficiently. A stable, fast and beautiful distro, by the way. Everyone should experience this wonder of DISTRO from the Arch Linux world. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 19.05.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-06-07 Votes: 8 Well, as an Arch Linux enthusiast who has never installed and stayed on an Arch based distro more than a day, there seems to be a first time with ArcoLinux (after 10 years)! Elegant look and feel, one of the best out of the box experiences of mine, very good selection of pre-installed software (could be less numerous though; resulting in a lighter iso and post-installation), exemplary out of the box level of customization through various number of themes, icons, Conky themes, etc and most importantly; not ruining the lovely experience of using Arch Linux by keeping everything Arco related separate (like repos and mirrorlist). I'm a KDE enthusiast, have been waiting to try Deepin out for a long time and with ArcoLinux Deepin flavor; I'm impressed so far. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 112 reader reviews of ArcoLinux...