Artix Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Artix Linux Average rating 9.2 from 229 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 Artix Linux? 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: -- 202604022025040720240823202308142022071320210726202002102018100420170808 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: 20260402 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-11 Country: United States Votes: 3 Impressively extensive for how "niche" it is. I feel right at home using KDE + dinit, as a former KDE Arch user. The only difference is managing services, obviously. Other than that, it works pretty much identically to Arch. I was expecting to run into more issues due to the lack of systemd, but honestly not really. Even all of the AUR packages I used back on Arch work right out of the box. Perhaps most surprisingly, PipeWire worked right out of the box with no issues at all. Highly recommended for any Arch users looking to get away from systemd. You'll feel right at home. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20260402 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-09 Country: Finland Votes: 0 Installed Plasma-kde dinit The pre-configured versions(plasma, xfce, mate, ect) have a full gui for install the same as every other distro I have used in the past, only the base version needs to be built up. Perhaps not as beginner friendly as other arch based distros as some things needed some steps to get working(steam being the only one). As someone who has used linux for a long time without getting much into terminal useage in many years it has been refreshing to relearn things that I thought lost as I was spoiled with by guis in other distros. As I said not beginner friendly and some terminal familiarity(even long unused) is something you will need. I switched to Artix to leave behind systemd and have been impressed by the boot times with dinit as well as the documentation on it. It has been a motivation to do basic things myself like creating .desktop files, fstab configuration, ect. A couple things need to be installed after like nvidia drivers as the open ones are not so good. Dolphin did need a tweak to the environment file to generate folder icon previews(copied process from artix forum). Setting up steam was the only hurdle but there is an Artix forum post that walks you through the process and once completed no further issues with steam or games via proton. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20260402 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-07 Country: Türkiye Votes: 5 I've been using this distro for a while now, and I can honestly say it's excellent. The team's repository maintenance is truly impressive, and everything is set up so that a regular Arch user feels right at home. Arch without systemd – that's all I need. By the way, KDE Plasma 6 runs flawlessly. On my less powerful netbook, I use LXQt – also without any issues, a real pleasure to use. The only thing is, I prefer a more vanilla Plasma look, but that's easy enough to fix. I think the distro could benefit from its own branding, and the DE presets are a good starting point for that, though I'd personally tweak them to feel a bit more modern. This distro has finally put an end to my distrohopping – I'm completely satisfied. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 229 reader reviews of Artix Linux...