Mageia

Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.3 from 120 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting 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 Mageia? 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: -- cauldron987.165.14.1321 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: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-09-09 Votes: 110 It works out-of-the-box for me, recognizing every device on my 2016-aged Asus laptop. At startup, after an accurate cleanup of preinstalled packages (not so many by the way, I just remove asian/arabic fonts, brand-specific printing stuff and PIM-related stuff) I have a stable KDE 5 system consuming just 650MB. Everything is customizable both from Mageia Control Center and, of course, from KDE settings. Updating repositories to enable backports and backports-testing gets me new versions from Cauldron. Wayland works fine and, along with Pipewire, is easy to switch and to configure against the predefined X11 and PulseAudio choices. The choice of software is not rich as Fedora or Ubuntu (neither the support from the industry), but using KDE Discover with Flatpak enabled solves most of the additional needs. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-07-29 Votes: 110 Pros: - good installer no calamares and other standardized tools - reactive and fast OS - old school, - very good, helpful and friendly forum - it's the like Debian but its an rpm distro and it's a bit more up to date Cons: - no LUKS encryption configuration in the installer - i didn't see an option for Btrfs in the installer - the team is obviously too small - the OS offers a lot of DE while the team is too small, delaying the development of more important things. - this distro lacks originality, something that would set it apart from the others and make it more popular Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 4 Date: 2024-06-10 Votes: 0 I still have fond memories from Mandrake. Pros: - no Calamares - the installer is old school in a very good way, letting you set up many things - it's relatively up-to-date (but Mageia 9 was released not long ago) - it has its own theming, from the boot loader to plymouth to the desktop environment - updates are very fast (has rpm stopped being the nightmare it was?) Cons: - it offers many DE but anything outside of KDE feels like uncharted territories - you have to type your admin password every 10 seconds - Mageia's control center wants to handle everything but makes things a lot more convoluted than they really are - tweaking the OS is a pain (like replacing grub with refind) - setting up manual ipv6 connection is… impossible? - Cinnamon ships with network manager which is 1. disabled because of Mageia's Network Center; 2. impossible to uninstall because of dependency hell - I can't sort the forum posts by date (or I simply haven't found how -> shame on me) - if a package is missing (or outdated), you're a bit on your own (no ppa, AUR, OBS, etc.) - 2 years release cycle for a desktop distro is a bit too much; what's it gonna be using an old Blender version in 2 years? - because of the omnipresence of Mageia's control center, managing the distro remotely is a pain Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 120 reader reviews of Mageia...