Artix Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Artix Linux Average rating 9.2 from 157 review(s) 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: -- 202308142022071320210726202002102018100420170808 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: 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20230814 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-11-24 Votes: 1 For financial and environmental reasons, I've always used quite old hardware, or "rescue" computers, as I like to call them. They naturally led me to lightweight distros, but because I also need to do real work on them, I found Arch to be perfect for my needs. But over time, I became one those users who was obsessed with minimalism, and I was constantly whittling down my package numbers and utilizing more and more suckless or suckless-like software, until I hit a minimalist wall. Then there was systemd, which seemed like the last piece of bloat on my system. To be clear, I'm not one of the systemd haters, and most of the complaints about it are beyond my technical knowledge, so I don't have an opinion. Nevertheless, the one undisputed fact about systemd is that it is bloated; it is, in reality, a suite of applications that include an init system, and some of the applications are totally unnecessary. So I installed Artix, a distro whose only reason to exist is to satisfy users who don't like systemd. I replaced vanilla Arch on a laptop and installed mostly the same packages with the same configurations, and in the end, my system was almost identical to the previous one, except with runit instead of systemd. The Artix-runit install does boot significantly faster and uses only 130MB of ram at start-up, as opposed to 170MB for my Arch system. In addition, although it may be my imagination, pages do seem to load faster. Overall, I have been quite satisfied with Artix, and if you're an obsessed minimalist like me, this is probably a good distro for you. However, there are a few reasons why one may not want to use it. First, the incredible software availability of Arch is one of its most attractive points. As some software is dependent on systemd, it is not included in the Artix repos, and some things in the AUR simply won't install. Also, I ran into hiccups during the installation and setting up processes, but, as an experienced Linux user, I was able to work through them; but for me, it was definitely not as smooth as an Arch install. Anyway, this is not a distro for new users, although there are pre-configured ISO's for newbs. Nevertheless, if someone is going to use a bloated desktop environment, it seems pointless to replace systemd. Apart from that, there are a few foibles and differences from mainline Arch that one will have to get used to with Artix. However, I'm happy I took the time to learn and will probably use Artix on all of my machines in the future. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 157 reader reviews of Artix Linux...