Reader supplied reviews for BigLinux
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9.1 from 132 review(s)
Version: 2026-04-04
Rating: 10
Date: 2026-04-17
Country: South Africa
Votes: 38
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I have installed Xenix, Unix, and well over 60 different versions of Linux spanning over 36 years, yes, even Mint, Zorin, Nixos and every version of Linux BBQ available. Unfortunately, not one of these comes close to the absolute beauty and polished Brazilian Linux called "BIG-LINUX". Second close because of the terminal & Gui tools is MX linux!
This software reigns Supreme, it's Head & Shoulders well above the rest of the pack. From Dual boot screen to its Login Screen, its a visual delight to behold. There is enough under the hood to meet everyone's needs, from network management, programming, gaming to even sending a 'Whats-App' message, it has everything your hearts desire. If you don't find BigLinux impressive, you are deluded, got your head in the clouds and living out arcade aspirations of getting a job done via over the mountain route instead of using the express tunnel! There's an easy way & a difficult tedious way, like Nixos and Gentoo!
I prefer the easy way! What is it of Snapshots in BigLinux you don't understand??? Its there for a reason, so theres nothing impressive about multiple booting used by Nixos. So end your suffering and move over to where the fun begins!
Big-Linux wins hands down. TEN STARS **********
Remember to use the correct version, 1st is for the older machine, 2nd is what I use on my HP i3 2017 , 8 RAM. the 3rd is your modern PC & Laptop. If you use the wrong one, you gonna encounter problems! So choose correctly! Enjoy this Linux, I AM. And I'm 71.
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Version: 2025-12-30
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-04-06
Country: United States
Votes: 14
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I'm fairly new to Linux, I started at the end of November 2025. BigLinux is an easy to use and easy to install distro. Everything (for me anyway) worked out of the box. I only have a few annoyances, I guess the easy way to state this distro lacks a bit polish. I installed the US English version but, the driver manager is still in Portuguese, This is true of a couple other apps as well. These are not deal breakers, the distro works, I rate this as an annoyance (lacks polish). I am currently using CachyOS but may switch to BigLinux again. I'm on an aging MSI Raider-GE76 (Intel i7 7th Gen and Nvidia RTX 3060m)
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Version: 2026-03-28
Rating: 5
Date: 2026-04-03
Country: Ukraine
Votes: 2
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I've been using it for about six months. They recently added parental controls to the system. I'm the only one using my laptop and one account. What the hell do I need your parental controls for? Should I control myself?
Overall, it's a nice and beautiful distro, but the bugs and random crashes are making it a negative experience.
My localization crashed, then came back on its own.
Some programs won't launch after installation. Not at all. Even if I delete them and reinstall them, even FROM other sources, the same thing happens: they won't launch. Why, how, what's the problem?
For the past few months, after booting, the Wayland session and the SDDM screen I selected have disappeared. Instead, the LXDM screen launches with a primitive window and only through an X11 session, and it's a mess: the window design is broken, the corners are sharp instead of rounded, some pop-up windows open in the top corner of the screen, I have to enter the root password for the Wi-Fi network immediately after logging in, and much more. Again, I have no idea what's wrong with this or where to look for the cause. No matter what I do, the problem persists. Then it resolves itself and the Wayland session is available again... Until the next reboot, when everything breaks again. And this has been going on for several months.
The virtual on-screen keyboard doesn't work either. At all. Not at all. Keep in mind who needs this.
There are other bugs and problems that I don't even want to list.
And I also don't like the utterly horrific clutter of built-in themes, cursors, icons, color schemes (there are over fifty of them!), and over a hundred hideous, ugly AI wallpapers, and none of them can be removed! Only with root access, digging through the system directories.
Overall, I liked this distro, but I'll look for something more stable and pleasant to work with.
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