Origami Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Origami Linux Average rating 8.0 from 2 review(s) What are your thoughts on Origami 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: -- 43.2026020742.20251014 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: 43.20260207 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-02-09 Country: United States Votes: 0 Installed from scratch with Fedora's standard installer. Easily formatted everything and encrypted the drive. Distro initially interested me because it combines COSMIC DE, CachyOS Kernel, and Fedora's atomic images and updates, which also happened to be the three big things I was looking for, coming from Pop!OS and trying out CachyOS for a short amount of time. Works wonderfully. I did have to reboot after the initial installation before the COSMIC Store app would populate any applications, and I also needed to reconfigure the base Zen Browser default settings because the lack of a URL bar by default was too jarring. The best part about this small distro and the few enthusiasts making it happen is that due to how atomic fedora distros work, if the owners of this project ever need to end the support or step away, I can easily rebase to another Fedora atomic distro without installing a new system--it's one terminal command and a reboot away. I hope to be with this distro for a long while! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43.20260130 Rating: 7 Date: 2026-02-01 Votes: 0 Installed because I am trying out immutable distros. Installation very easy and fast, straight out of Fedora. It boots up on my 13 year old i5 laptop in 45 seconds. It recognized my Epson printer which was not the case with Fedora's own Cosmic Atomic, go figure. I am beginning to like the Cosmic DE, much simpler and nicer than GNOME. Once installed it only comes with the ZEN browser which I could not use it very well, it is different than other browsers and will have a learning curve. Of the other apps installed, Helix (a text editor) did not work and I was not able to close it unless I shut down the system. The COSMIC terminal is also not working well as I have not found a way to close the window. The COSMIC store is the place to obtain flatpak apps and one can also install custom flatpak sources. Oveall I am impressed with the distro, installed without any problems and the typical apps one uses can be installed from the flatpak repos. I would have given this a much higher rating; however, the problem with the native terminal is a big deal, the text editor not so much as one can use text editors from the flatpak. I will try to fix the terminal situation, Was this review helpful? Yes No