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Artix Linux


Last Update: 2023-08-18 02:24 UTC


Artix Linux is a fork (or continuation as an autonomous project) of the Arch-OpenRC and Manjaro-OpenRC projects. Artix Linux offers a lightweight, rolling-release operating system featuring the OpenRC init software. (Alternative spins feature the runit and s6 init software.) Several editions of Artix Linux are available, featuring either a plain command line or one of several desktop environments.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 85 (139), 6 months: 75 (149), 3 months: 79 (141), 4 weeks: 79 (140), 1 week: 70 (151)

Average visitor rating: 9.23/10 from 158 review(s).


Artix Linux Summary
Distribution Artix Linux
Home Page https://artixlinux.org/
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Feature 20230814 20220713 20210726 20200210 20181004 20170808
Release Date 2023-08-14 2022-07-17 2021-07-28 2020-02-10 2018-10-04 2017-08-08
End Of Life            
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 700-1700 700-1700 600-1400 600-1200 400-900 300-700
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop Cinnamon, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, Xfce Cinnamon, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, Xfce Cinnamon, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, Xfce Cinnamon, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma LXQt i3, LXQt
Package Management Pacman Pacman Pacman Pacman Pacman Pacman
Release Model Rolling Rolling Rolling Rolling Rolling Rolling
Office Suite -- -- -- -- -- --
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software Dinit, OpenRC, runit, S6 Dinit, OpenRC, runit, S6 OpenRC, runit, S6, Suite66 OpenRC, runit, S6 OpenRC, runit OpenRC
Journaled File Systems ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4
Multilingual            
Asian Language Support            
Full Package List 20230814 20220713 20210726 20200210 20181004 20170808
Package 20230814 20220713 20210726 20200210 20181004 20170808
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- -- -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.10) 1.2.9 1.2.7.1 1.2.5.1 1.2.1.2 1.1.6 1.1.4.1
amdgpu (23.0.0) 23.0.0 22.0.0 19.1.0 19.1.0 -- --
bash (5.2.21) 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.0 4.4 4.4
bind (9.18.20) -- -- -- -- -- --
chromium (119.0.6045.199) -- -- -- -- -- --
cups (2.4.7) 2.4.6 2.4.2 2.3.3 -- -- --
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.3 4.4.3 4.4.2 4.4.2 4.4.1 4.3.5
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.47.0 1.46.5 1.46.2 1.45.5 1.44.4 1.43.4
firefox (120.0.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
freetype (2.13.2) 2.13.1 2.12.1 2.10.4 2.10.1 2.9.1 --
gcc (13.2.0) 13.2.1 -- -- -- -- --
gimp (2.10.36) -- -- -- -- -- --
glibc (2.38) 2.38 2.35 2.33 2.30 2.28 2.25
gnome-shell (45.2) -- -- -- -- -- --
gnucash (5.4-1) -- -- -- -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- -- -- -- --
grub (2.06) 2.12 2.06 2.04 2.02 2.02 2.02
gtk (4.12.4) 4.10.5 4.6.6 3.24.24 3.24.13 3.24.1 3.22.18
httpd (2.4.58) -- -- -- -- -- --
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
k3b (23.08.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
kmod (31) 30 30 28 26 25 24
krita (5.2.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
libreoffice (7.6.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
linux (6.6.4) 6.4.10 5.18.10 5.13.4 5.5.2 4.18.10 4.9.41
Package 20230814 20220713 20210726 20200210 20181004 20170808
lxpanel (0.10.1) 0.10.1 0.10.1 0.10.0 0.10.0 -- --
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) 1.27.0 1.26.0 1.24.1 1.22.2 -- --
mesa (23.3.0) 23.1.5 22.1.3 21.1.5 19.3.3 18.2.1 17.1.5
mysql (8.2.0) -- -- -- -- -- --
nautilus (45.2.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
NVIDIA (545.29.06) 530.41.03 -- -- -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1
openjdk (21.0.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
openssh (9.5p1) 9.4p1 9.0p1 8.6p1 8.1p1 7.8p1 7.5p1
openssl (3.2.0) 3.1.2 1.1.1q 1.1.1k 1.1.1d 1.1.1 1.1.0f
perl (5.38.2) 5.38.0 5.36.0 5.32.1 5.30.1 5.28.0 5.26.0
php (8.3.0) -- -- -- -- -- --
plasma-desktop (5.27.10) 5.27.7.1 5.25.3 5.22.4 5.17.5 -- --
postfix (3.8.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
postgresql (16.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
Python (3.12.0) 3.11.3 3.10.5 3.9.4 3.8.1 3.7.0 3.6.2
qt (6.6.1) 5.15.10 5.15.5 5.15.2 5.14.1 5.11.2 2.0.0
samba (4.19.3) 4.18.5 4.16.2 4.14.6 4.10.10 -- --
systemd (255) -- -- -- -- -- --
thunderbird (115.5.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
vim (9.0) -- -- -- -- -- 8.0
vlc (3.0.20) -- -- -- -- -- --
wayland (1.22.0) 1.22.0 1.21.0 1.19.0 1.17.0 1.16.0 1.13.0
xfdesktop (4.18.1) 4.18.1 4.16.0 4.16.0 -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.9) 21.1.8 21.1.4 1.20.12 1.20.7 1.20.1 1.19.3

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Version: 20230814
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-05
Votes: 0


I've been distro hopping from Puppy, Elementary, Zorin, Devuan, Void & now to Artix ... (Not counting Qubes & BSD family which I didn't manage to setup completely with all drivers). With earlier distros I was learning the ropes but the distro was never rock solid reliable esp with startup / suspend / hibernate issues etc. Of course I also messed up settings or panels at times trying out different menu options :-) Then as I progressed I learnt about the dangers of Systemd and tried to move but Devuan and Void were more complicated, more CLI and less GUI / cool looking. As an end user, I have definitely needed to rush back to CLI which doesn't excite me too much (even though I'm able to copy paste from online forums)... With Artix, I got best of both worlds with no Systemd & splendid looks, fully featured and power packed

Initially, I had trouble with the download servers and hence had initially chosen the graphical install ISO. However tired of (re)installing OS & all software apps multiple times, I now downloaded the community ISO and did a completely fresh install removing the other distro partitions as well... this is now my only OS at this point and I'm not complaining. Of course there are some hitches (like my Acer trackpad isn't working but it doesn't randomly work most of the time anyways, Librewolf installation was stuck and had to resort to CLI etc... but even then more than happy to finally have a really eye catching, powerful and rock-solid distro which I intend to stick to for quite some time.


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Version: 20230814
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-11-29
Votes: 0


I tried this system a while ago and I liked it for the most part. It looks nice, it´s one of the fastest systems I´ve tried and it has no systemd. It doesn´t come with that much software installed, you have to find and install it yourself. On the minus side it comes with a browser that is not that good and not customizable and it was a bit tricky to install Firefox from the AUR since Yay does not come with the system. Overall I would say a good choice if you´re not afraid of using the command line from time to time.


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Version: 20220713
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-26
Votes: 1


A quality distro with friendly devs and solid support, has very good default repos and some maintainer repos too. On their forums you can also pretty much solve any issues that can arise, which are rare since their package vetting is also very good (for example when upstream arch shipped the grub update who broke on some uefi systems etc). The default images have a sensible base on which you can get a nice system up and running rather quickly, the desktop environments and gtk/qt are also themed with their custom theme which is elegant. It's not the best distro, but it's in the top 10 for me, and i daily drive it on some pc's for about 2 years now happily.


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