OpenMandriva Lx

Reader supplied reviews for OpenMandriva Lx Average rating 8.4 from 84 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. 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 OpenMandriva Lx? 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: -- cooker24.126.05.04.34.24.14.03.032014.22013.0 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: 6.0 Rating: 7 Date: 2026-05-06 Country: Italy Votes: 1 Vanadium Rock (stable) version. A quite interesting independent distro that works quite fine, but with some caveats. 1) the wayland version is buggy, because I tried to install it and always it was in some ways incomplete. It seems to run fine but after an unpredictable while evrything can stop, sometimes calling for a login (this thing is due to a bug on sddm but other stops not). The only way to start wayland with less problems isto install the X11 version then chosing the starting by console and then launching the Plasma wayland version, if you had installed it. 2) installing a new program is not intuitive and very slow. You have too many tools for installing/upgrading conflicting so that you do not know what is better to use (Discover, DnfDrake,Software Repository Selector) and the operation could be slow and without any warning about what the program is doing, so that you can wrongly think it is stopped. 3) the version of some "classic" available software is old, without the possibility to an upgrade (I did not investigate about rebuilding them by source). For exampleThunderbird is at version 137 while there is around 140, and thi is a problem if you have to share your email reader with different linuxes as I have. By the way if you use the older Mx 23 (based on Debian 12) you have access to Thunderbird 140 even if version Mx 25 (based on Debian 13) is around. So, for me, it is a good piece of software to see that needs a little more work. I wanted to give them a "6" but I put a "7" for not being to severe with the team thas is making a hard work. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-03-10 Country: United States Votes: 4 Very good with some caveats. First, there will be many mainstream packages you'll want to install that may require you to build from source. This can be a challenge because the maintainers have chosen to give alternate names to libraries and packages in the store and you will need to carefully work through the new names for missing dependencies in order to get a working build environment. The second is the use of X11Libre (XLibre), the hard fork of X11. I'm happy they have embraced keeping this X server and related packages alive and in use for obvious reasons (so much software depends on it, including Wayland's XWayland layer) but I'm not sure how thoroughly libre has been implemented across the different versions of OM. Lastly, this OS has dropped support for older hardware such as GPU hardware support for older generation embedded GPUs in Intel CPUs. In other words, this is probably not a good OS for older hardware. You might be able to get the 'cooker' version working for older hardware but, as I mentioned above, if it requires custom compilation then be prepared to put in some effort. It was a piece of cake to install the base OS, though, and the DNF package system seems to work very well. QEMU/KVM works well and I was able, with a bit of patience and AI help, to get podman running including the full use of pods. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-13 Votes: 11 The easiest distro I've ever used. I've played with Linux distros before but I was on Windows 11 until 6 months ago. I've never really liked most of the distros i've used, there was always some issue or software I couldn't use because no clear way to make it work or install it. Open Mandriva has been the most hassle free Linux I've ever used. Everything on the back end is already there so apps just work. Heck I have a few Windows apps that just immediately opened in Wine on just double clicking the exe and they just worked. App images work without issue, well except for one but Gear Lever app helped integrate it properly. It comes with every basic tool or app you need and no bloatware. ZNVER1 ISO installer for AMD CPU users was a nice touch. Boot up is nearly instant, Welcome menu helps you install most desired apps right away by clicking on them. I'm using this as my gaming OS and It's absolutely flawless and the performance is much better then a few other distros that advertise them selves as gaming optimized ones. Installing Steam for games is just a few clicks and that's it. I wish there was a local app browser for it similar to Discover or Bazaar but instead of flatpacks, it just shows you what's on the OS provided repos. I know Dnfdrake is there, but it's navigation is clunky and doesn't have a discovery view. That's my only issue and I haven't really seen any OS do that either. I only had to use terminal once and that was to install the hardware rules for OpenRGB. It's weird to say this but OM is easier then Win11 to use. Consider this, on Win11 you have to run several anti-spyware apps and tweaking apps to remove all of Microsoft's built in spyware and telemetry bloat. They are complicated and make it easy to brick you system. OM doesn't have those problems to start with, so you just install your apps and just start using it. Even most popular Linux distros have a lot of bloat like Ubuntu, Mint, Bazzite and Zorin for example. OM places you at the starting line, holds your hand just enough to where you find what you need with out getting lost, but lets you choose your pace and direction. I'm never going back to Windows. I'm here to stay until the heat death of the universe. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 84 reader reviews of OpenMandriva Lx...