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ALT Linux
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Reader supplied reviews for ALT Linux
Average rating
8.8 from 21 review(s)
Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-25
Votes: 18
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Excellent distribution. The latest Gnome. A very large set of programs in the repository. Flatpak support, new kernel. In my opinion, a relatively stable rolling distribution.
There are telegram channels where you can ask questions, even without knowing Russian, and get answers.
I liked the large knowledge base.
Liked the new community wiki, alt-gnome.wiki
Although it is in Russian, everything is quite clear through online translation services.
In general, I am very pleased with this rolling distribution.
ALT Sisyphus Gnome, my choice.
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Version: 10.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-11-06
Votes: 21
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I tried the ALT Mate release and I wasn't very happy with it. I couldn't get the permissions (root/user) to work properly and there was no visudo around to fix things. I wasn't interested in using Mate on my old desktop anyway (too resource-heavy), so I went back to the Simply Linux XFCE release of ALT without trying to mess around with it too much.
The initial Simply Linux XFCE version of ALT install, I'm quite sure, was 10.1, but I updated everything completely after the install and now it shows 10.2. There were some minor bugs I experienced in Simply Linux 10/10.1 (e.g. shift didn't register for XFCE shortcut key specifications so other keys had to be used, including for terminal copy and paste) and these were fixed. I was impressed because I've had issues in other distributions that went unfixed for ages.
I did notice that the install slowed down a bit after I installed all the software I typically use. Removing a bunch of autostart applications did help. I also changed the login theme to Slick which I think sped things up a little during boot up (the GTK theme is the default and it's a little buggy/strange in its appearance, so I didn't mind the switch for multiple reasons). It's still not as fast as the fresh install. But, it's not a huge difference and some of it is software-specific. For example, I can get a Floorp browser flatpak release to run blazing fast, while a tar install of Waterfox is a bit sluggish, and a repository install of Firefox is even more sluggish. But, that said, I can get Kodi playing a video on my 15-year-old desktop at the same time as five or so tabs being open on Waterfox without much of an issue. When I use shortcut keys to open Thunar or the terminal with Kodi and Waterfox both running, they almost instantaneously appear. I think that says a lot given the old hardware I'm using. There were some pieces of software I couldn't find in the default repository, but I found them in flatpak form and/or in the autoimports repository that you can add to ALT. (Search the ALT wiki and use a translation site if you don't read Russian. It's not hard to add the autoimports repositories, or you can find the package links on Pkgs.org from autoimports and you can install the individual .rpm files using the ALT RPM Install app that's included with the install without adding the whole repository. I did this for some hashing software without an issue, though ALT warns that the autoimports can be buggy.) I had some issues installing KDE-based software on XFCE because the location of libraries, resources, etc., was incorrect. Installing those few programs through flatpak instead fixed everything. Though, I had to add the flatpak directory to XDG_DATA_DIRS. I wish that had been automatic, but the flatpak installer (on the command-line) did give me a heads-up about it.
Overall, the issues I've had have been minor. Some have been fixed very quickly by the people at ALT (thank you) and others are easy to work around. This is my new favorite distribution. Sometimes it can be a pain to find documentation, as I don't read Russian well. But, for most purposes, translation services online do the trick.
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Version: 10.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-10-29
Votes: 18
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Excellent - Modern Mate Desktop on workstation and has feel of reliability, Installer is excellent along with package management. Flatpak is available with one caveat - auto install provides 25 GB for Root with separate Home partition - Advisable to use Custom partition option and allow more file space for Root partition if you intend to install any Flatpak Apps. I love this Distro and intend to keep and use it into foreseeable future. Very user friendly with all the Apps you might need readily available for install.
For users who speak languages other than Russian,select the options that appear in Cryllic alphabet on Live CD bootup that has (F2) at the end - this will enable you to choose English or other languages.
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Version: 10.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-10-13
Votes: 4
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Fantastic distro. BUT: why the heck can't they fix their non-working PATH??????????? Commands from /usr/sbin don't work. AND the non-working localization??? Localization wirks FANTASTIC IF and only if you use the gdm login manager, not at all if the more modern one, forget name, is used. This means that localization is fabulous if you use SysV init starterkit, not at all if you use a systemd init based Starterkit. Come on ALT, you can fix this. Having to symlink stuff in /usr/sbin when you need to use it is not good. This may work better in a full size/main image but I prefer the flexibility of the starterkits. ALT is actually so good that I put up with the above.
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Version: 10.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-10-08
Votes: 3
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I had been using MXLinux and it ran faster than other distributions I'd tried on my old desktop. There were just a few issues I ran into here and there -- nothing too bad. But, recently when I was exploring distributions to try just for amusement, I found that MXLinux was based on antiX, which portrays itself as an 'antifascist' distribution and some behind that are involved in MXLinux as well. Whether I agree with a certain political position or not is largely besides the point. I hate having politics thrust into everything. I want a store to just be a store and not a political statement, and I feel the same way about a Linux distribution. So, I set out to find a distribution that was just a distribution, nothing else. This was the first one I tried and I pretty much stopped here. My old desktop ran much, *much* faster using the SimplyLinux release of ALT. I had XFCE crawling on MXLinux and it just flies on ALT. I'd put IceWM on MXLinux to gain back some speed. But, I actually have XFCE running faster on ALT than IceWM was running on MXLinux! It left me baffled, wondering what the heck MXLinux was doing behind the scenes that was dragging my computer down. I have had a few issues with ALT, like hanging during boot. Editing the Grub settings to remove 'resume' fixed that. I did have some unknown error occur on a fresh ALT install that resulted in the preliminary upgrade process for packages going corrupt and damaging the system. I probably could've fixed it without a reinstall, but I'd barely changed anything in the system so it wasn't worth the time to track down the error. It didn't happen again in a fresh install. Almost everything else has not just run smoothly, but much faster. I had an issue with the Russian keyboard coming up when I didn't want it to, so I removed it for the time being. Otherwise, it's speedy, beautiful, and the art is really nice and unique. I love the ALT logo with the penguins. I've installed a lot of the same software I had on MXLinux and it actually works better on ALT. This distro feels a lot more solid and less buggy. I'm really glad I found it.
NOTE: If you install the SimplyLinux version of ALT (I can't say about the others), you have to select English on the boot screen. Then it boots to an English version of the distro to try and/or install. I think it's the third option down. I believe the login is 'altlinux' and on the previous versions it was 'user' and '123'. A lot of their website is in Russian, in terms of the wiki, but that's mostly solved by just using free online translation services. I haven't found it to be much of an issue thus far.
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Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-13
Votes: 9
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Very Stable! One of the best Linux I tried.
Automatic update every day. Installation is simple. Most common hardware automatically works.
Alt is one of the Linux distro. I tried, with no wi-fi hardware problems for my laptop (HP Pavilion).
Sound, Video card and fingerprint sensor works automatically after system installation.
Software store is full of different software, soft is not the latest versions, but mostly is one-two month older.
Simple system administration from its own menu.
Deb. packages is mostly compatible.
I love it!
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Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-04
Votes: 105
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Very fast, reliable and you can find absolutely any package. Applications from Windows work much better than other distributions. Most applications work much better, more stable and take less system resources compared to the leaders in the rating. Too bad I didn't try Alt Starterkit before. Now it is my main distro, dethroned antiX. And by installing EPM
Another option for installing programs is the epm package manager - Ettersoft package manager, you can update the system, programs from repositories, programs from epm, flatpak programs, update kernels, remove old kernels with one command:
sudo epm full-upgrade. After that everything works great. The only exception was that I had to grant "sudo" rights myself, because for some reason it was impossible to install or update anything in the console, but I hope that this will be fixed soon. And basically everything is beyond praise. I am pleasantly surprised that you can go about your business without being distracted by the fact that something needs to be corrected and "finished".
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Version: 10.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-07-29
Votes: 0
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first test the different variants. Only the alt-education variant will be start in live mode. The workstation live variant ask for a HD with alt distribution.
After installing the education on a HD with more Linux distribution.
After restarting it will not appears in the grub boot menu. I start another Linux and check the boot folder from alt education. It appear as blocked and empty.
Probably i will delete alt education.
When I tested it, it was interesting and met my requirements. This is the first Linux distribution where something like this has happened to me.
It's a pity.
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Version: 10.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-04
Votes: 35
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A good stable and beautiful distro. I put nine to ten to the rate because it does not support greek language.I hope developers to fix it. I wan to install it and to some friends laptops.
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Version: 10.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 37
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Very good distro. Am use 5 years and dont have any problems. I advise all!
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Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-28
Votes: 14
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I had a good look at the LXDe verson of Alt and I must say, I am really impressed. It's clean, very fast and has most programs that are worth their salt already "in the box". I was particularly pleased the find all my favourite programs such as "gnome-commander" in the repository - a program that I find so useful but had been ditched by so many distro compilers. Why ?
We wouldn't have made it into the twentyfirst century without programs like that.
I will install the Sisiphus and would like to thank the development team to come up with such a wonderful distro. A clean 10 from this angle.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 58
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Decided to go with p9 i586 GNUStep SysV Live ISO and have been so pleased with it. It installed just perfectly on to my Acer Aspire One netbook, detecting all of my hardware. It even allows me to use the Acer's built-in SD card reader (which was unusable with other Linux distros I've tried on it).
The ALT Linux team are masters at building a wide range of flavours of their distro and their installation processes are easy and intuitive. The ALT System Management Center (Alterator) makes it very easy to do some of the more complicated/fiddly system configuration tasks.
ALT Linux also has the best implementation of Window Maker I've ever used. WM on many other distros just doesn't work all that well. But on ALT I've experienced no issues with WM.
ALT Linux proven to me to be a very stable Linux distro with a very large selection of software in their independent repository, Sisyphus. Because they are not based on any other Linux distro, but have been going it alone for over 20 years, says a lot.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-20
Votes: 24
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For me the prefect system. Even upgraded 9.1 on one machine stepping over 9.2 to the 10 beta and everything went smoothly with no breakages. Uses half the memory of some other systems. Just one look at the ALT development team should fill most folks with confidence and they won't be disappointed with the result.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-26
Votes: 23
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Lots of applications are at their latest versions. Stable system, lots of packages and other customizations you can install. Alt looks beautiful too.
Programs respond quickly and the OS is easy to use.
My hardware like my printer and WiFi adapter were detected and work well.
I recommend Alt.
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Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-07
Votes: 20
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Sisyphus MATE 64bit is fantastic. The Live system is persistent by default if you choose the option with sessions! And TPLinux Archer T3U Realtek RTL8812BU is working out of the box! So cool!
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-30
Votes: 0
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32 bit old computer. Awful !!! I even couldn't set keyboard to my language! And only 2 languages available interface Russian and English. Very poor distro, much worse than Elive. I m going back to MX.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-05-22
Votes: 11
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Note: I'm using the aarch64 version on Raspberry Pi.
Highly stable distro, and is one of the few rpm-based stable distros that have good compatibility with Raspberry Pi. Some of the issues I've found were some Wi-Fi detection problems, mainly when using a cellphone as Wi-Fi access point, and USB printer detection issues. I used a Epson TX125 and the distro didn't recognize it.
It has a good amount of apps in the main repositories, and flatpak works on command line perfectly. Flatpak doesn't work correctly on the main package manager.
MATE is very simple and has a design focused on productivity, not appearance. There are other options of DEs on the main distros. I tried IceWM without issues.
The Sound Switcher app is very useful when you have the Raspberry Pi connected via a KVM switch, unlike other distros it detects automatically the active headset connected on the switch.
I also couldn't install aarch64 RPM packages from files, says it can't find the package file location.
Besides the amount of issues being very great on aarch64, it is very functional, main distro applications works, and it can be used as a main OS in a Raspberry Pi.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-17
Votes: 13
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Used many Linux distress over the last 15 years or so. This is far and away the best I have handled so far. Install is a dream, easy to follow, intuitive(detects my global region without prompting). Has all the apps I need out of the box, and for any others Synaptic is there for me. Many other distro's could take a leaf out of ALT's book (especially Ubuntu), Wi-Fi setup is a breeze even with a fairly proprietary laptop wi-fi card.
I think it's great and have just blasted all my other installed distro's off my Linux lappy
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-04-23
Votes: 10
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ALT has been around for a very long time, but I had never tried it before. So I gave it a whirl, expecting a tired, old, antiquated distro, maybe like Free BSD. Wow! Was I wrong. ALT is modern and solid. I encountered no issues, just a fine tuned, non-nonsense, smooth running machine. I think it would be great for beginners, and production folk who need a reliable operating system. My only concern is that, being an independent distro you may have to work with it a bit to get some modern programs like Zoom, Skype to run, but that can be overcome. I believe ALT Linux is an undiscovered gem.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-04-13
Votes: 4
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I used Simply Linux Live CD/USB version. Plus:
It fits preinstalled the most essential programs on 2G USB stick: Chromium browser, LibreOffice, VLC, Gimp and a few other tools and utilities. So, even installed on HD it would be a working minimalist distro.
It was fast. The wi-fi was recognized and launch very quickly.
Used 400 MB RAM on 3G RAM machine. By comparison MX used 600 MB (Antix - under 200 MB)
. Software installation seems easy with Synaptic.
Negative (for me):
The Stick version is not Persistent as some suggest. 'Session Support' refers rather to saving some settings than to full persistence MX/Antix style.
I did not see an internal tool for a snapshot or a recreation of the image on eternal media (for installed system). Perhaps, the workstation (4G+) has more utilities.
This is definitely a good candidate for a HD install, but not for a working persistent stick use.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-16
Votes: 12
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I have tested many operating systems, which I do for fun. I do not think I have given any one a perfect 10. Wow, I was surprised by Alt Linux (Xfce).
• On my Acer Aspire 3, it is slick, and works absolutely flawlessly. I tried USB persistence (they call it session support), and this worked immediately.
• The installed software is sparse, but with a connection, one can quickly remedy that, through the generous Synaptic package manager.
• The only thing that doesn't get a like is its appearance. While there is nothing wrong with it, this is not as beautiful or polished as Western systems.
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Latest Reviews
Project: ALT Linux
Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-25
Votes: 18
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Excellent distribution. The latest Gnome. A very large set of programs in the repository. Flatpak support, new kernel. In my opinion, a relatively stable rolling distribution.
There are telegram channels where you can ask questions, even without knowing Russian, and get answers.
I liked the large knowledge base.
Liked the new community wiki, alt-gnome.wiki
Although it is in Russian, everything is quite clear through online translation services.
In general, I am very pleased with this rolling distribution.
ALT Sisyphus Gnome, my choice.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-11-06
Votes: 21
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I tried the ALT Mate release and I wasn't very happy with it. I couldn't get the permissions (root/user) to work properly and there was no visudo around to fix things. I wasn't interested in using Mate on my old desktop anyway (too resource-heavy), so I went back to the Simply Linux XFCE release of ALT without trying to mess around with it too much.
The initial Simply Linux XFCE version of ALT install, I'm quite sure, was 10.1, but I updated everything completely after the install and now it shows 10.2. There were some minor bugs I experienced in Simply Linux 10/10.1 (e.g. shift didn't register for XFCE shortcut key specifications so other keys had to be used, including for terminal copy and paste) and these were fixed. I was impressed because I've had issues in other distributions that went unfixed for ages.
I did notice that the install slowed down a bit after I installed all the software I typically use. Removing a bunch of autostart applications did help. I also changed the login theme to Slick which I think sped things up a little during boot up (the GTK theme is the default and it's a little buggy/strange in its appearance, so I didn't mind the switch for multiple reasons). It's still not as fast as the fresh install. But, it's not a huge difference and some of it is software-specific. For example, I can get a Floorp browser flatpak release to run blazing fast, while a tar install of Waterfox is a bit sluggish, and a repository install of Firefox is even more sluggish. But, that said, I can get Kodi playing a video on my 15-year-old desktop at the same time as five or so tabs being open on Waterfox without much of an issue. When I use shortcut keys to open Thunar or the terminal with Kodi and Waterfox both running, they almost instantaneously appear. I think that says a lot given the old hardware I'm using. There were some pieces of software I couldn't find in the default repository, but I found them in flatpak form and/or in the autoimports repository that you can add to ALT. (Search the ALT wiki and use a translation site if you don't read Russian. It's not hard to add the autoimports repositories, or you can find the package links on Pkgs.org from autoimports and you can install the individual .rpm files using the ALT RPM Install app that's included with the install without adding the whole repository. I did this for some hashing software without an issue, though ALT warns that the autoimports can be buggy.) I had some issues installing KDE-based software on XFCE because the location of libraries, resources, etc., was incorrect. Installing those few programs through flatpak instead fixed everything. Though, I had to add the flatpak directory to XDG_DATA_DIRS. I wish that had been automatic, but the flatpak installer (on the command-line) did give me a heads-up about it.
Overall, the issues I've had have been minor. Some have been fixed very quickly by the people at ALT (thank you) and others are easy to work around. This is my new favorite distribution. Sometimes it can be a pain to find documentation, as I don't read Russian well. But, for most purposes, translation services online do the trick.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-10-29
Votes: 18
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Excellent - Modern Mate Desktop on workstation and has feel of reliability, Installer is excellent along with package management. Flatpak is available with one caveat - auto install provides 25 GB for Root with separate Home partition - Advisable to use Custom partition option and allow more file space for Root partition if you intend to install any Flatpak Apps. I love this Distro and intend to keep and use it into foreseeable future. Very user friendly with all the Apps you might need readily available for install.
For users who speak languages other than Russian,select the options that appear in Cryllic alphabet on Live CD bootup that has (F2) at the end - this will enable you to choose English or other languages.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-10-13
Votes: 4
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Fantastic distro. BUT: why the heck can't they fix their non-working PATH??????????? Commands from /usr/sbin don't work. AND the non-working localization??? Localization wirks FANTASTIC IF and only if you use the gdm login manager, not at all if the more modern one, forget name, is used. This means that localization is fabulous if you use SysV init starterkit, not at all if you use a systemd init based Starterkit. Come on ALT, you can fix this. Having to symlink stuff in /usr/sbin when you need to use it is not good. This may work better in a full size/main image but I prefer the flexibility of the starterkits. ALT is actually so good that I put up with the above.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-10-08
Votes: 3
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I had been using MXLinux and it ran faster than other distributions I'd tried on my old desktop. There were just a few issues I ran into here and there -- nothing too bad. But, recently when I was exploring distributions to try just for amusement, I found that MXLinux was based on antiX, which portrays itself as an 'antifascist' distribution and some behind that are involved in MXLinux as well. Whether I agree with a certain political position or not is largely besides the point. I hate having politics thrust into everything. I want a store to just be a store and not a political statement, and I feel the same way about a Linux distribution. So, I set out to find a distribution that was just a distribution, nothing else. This was the first one I tried and I pretty much stopped here. My old desktop ran much, *much* faster using the SimplyLinux release of ALT. I had XFCE crawling on MXLinux and it just flies on ALT. I'd put IceWM on MXLinux to gain back some speed. But, I actually have XFCE running faster on ALT than IceWM was running on MXLinux! It left me baffled, wondering what the heck MXLinux was doing behind the scenes that was dragging my computer down. I have had a few issues with ALT, like hanging during boot. Editing the Grub settings to remove 'resume' fixed that. I did have some unknown error occur on a fresh ALT install that resulted in the preliminary upgrade process for packages going corrupt and damaging the system. I probably could've fixed it without a reinstall, but I'd barely changed anything in the system so it wasn't worth the time to track down the error. It didn't happen again in a fresh install. Almost everything else has not just run smoothly, but much faster. I had an issue with the Russian keyboard coming up when I didn't want it to, so I removed it for the time being. Otherwise, it's speedy, beautiful, and the art is really nice and unique. I love the ALT logo with the penguins. I've installed a lot of the same software I had on MXLinux and it actually works better on ALT. This distro feels a lot more solid and less buggy. I'm really glad I found it.
NOTE: If you install the SimplyLinux version of ALT (I can't say about the others), you have to select English on the boot screen. Then it boots to an English version of the distro to try and/or install. I think it's the third option down. I believe the login is 'altlinux' and on the previous versions it was 'user' and '123'. A lot of their website is in Russian, in terms of the wiki, but that's mostly solved by just using free online translation services. I haven't found it to be much of an issue thus far.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-13
Votes: 9
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Very Stable! One of the best Linux I tried.
Automatic update every day. Installation is simple. Most common hardware automatically works.
Alt is one of the Linux distro. I tried, with no wi-fi hardware problems for my laptop (HP Pavilion).
Sound, Video card and fingerprint sensor works automatically after system installation.
Software store is full of different software, soft is not the latest versions, but mostly is one-two month older.
Simple system administration from its own menu.
Deb. packages is mostly compatible.
I love it!
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-04
Votes: 105
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Very fast, reliable and you can find absolutely any package. Applications from Windows work much better than other distributions. Most applications work much better, more stable and take less system resources compared to the leaders in the rating. Too bad I didn't try Alt Starterkit before. Now it is my main distro, dethroned antiX. And by installing EPM
Another option for installing programs is the epm package manager - Ettersoft package manager, you can update the system, programs from repositories, programs from epm, flatpak programs, update kernels, remove old kernels with one command:
sudo epm full-upgrade. After that everything works great. The only exception was that I had to grant "sudo" rights myself, because for some reason it was impossible to install or update anything in the console, but I hope that this will be fixed soon. And basically everything is beyond praise. I am pleasantly surprised that you can go about your business without being distracted by the fact that something needs to be corrected and "finished".
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-07-29
Votes: 0
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first test the different variants. Only the alt-education variant will be start in live mode. The workstation live variant ask for a HD with alt distribution.
After installing the education on a HD with more Linux distribution.
After restarting it will not appears in the grub boot menu. I start another Linux and check the boot folder from alt education. It appear as blocked and empty.
Probably i will delete alt education.
When I tested it, it was interesting and met my requirements. This is the first Linux distribution where something like this has happened to me.
It's a pity.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-04
Votes: 35
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A good stable and beautiful distro. I put nine to ten to the rate because it does not support greek language.I hope developers to fix it. I wan to install it and to some friends laptops.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 10.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 37
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Very good distro. Am use 5 years and dont have any problems. I advise all!
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-28
Votes: 14
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I had a good look at the LXDe verson of Alt and I must say, I am really impressed. It's clean, very fast and has most programs that are worth their salt already "in the box". I was particularly pleased the find all my favourite programs such as "gnome-commander" in the repository - a program that I find so useful but had been ditched by so many distro compilers. Why ?
We wouldn't have made it into the twentyfirst century without programs like that.
I will install the Sisiphus and would like to thank the development team to come up with such a wonderful distro. A clean 10 from this angle.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 58
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Decided to go with p9 i586 GNUStep SysV Live ISO and have been so pleased with it. It installed just perfectly on to my Acer Aspire One netbook, detecting all of my hardware. It even allows me to use the Acer's built-in SD card reader (which was unusable with other Linux distros I've tried on it).
The ALT Linux team are masters at building a wide range of flavours of their distro and their installation processes are easy and intuitive. The ALT System Management Center (Alterator) makes it very easy to do some of the more complicated/fiddly system configuration tasks.
ALT Linux also has the best implementation of Window Maker I've ever used. WM on many other distros just doesn't work all that well. But on ALT I've experienced no issues with WM.
ALT Linux proven to me to be a very stable Linux distro with a very large selection of software in their independent repository, Sisyphus. Because they are not based on any other Linux distro, but have been going it alone for over 20 years, says a lot.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-20
Votes: 24
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For me the prefect system. Even upgraded 9.1 on one machine stepping over 9.2 to the 10 beta and everything went smoothly with no breakages. Uses half the memory of some other systems. Just one look at the ALT development team should fill most folks with confidence and they won't be disappointed with the result.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-26
Votes: 23
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Lots of applications are at their latest versions. Stable system, lots of packages and other customizations you can install. Alt looks beautiful too.
Programs respond quickly and the OS is easy to use.
My hardware like my printer and WiFi adapter were detected and work well.
I recommend Alt.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: Sisyphus
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-07
Votes: 20
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Sisyphus MATE 64bit is fantastic. The Live system is persistent by default if you choose the option with sessions! And TPLinux Archer T3U Realtek RTL8812BU is working out of the box! So cool!
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-30
Votes: 0
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32 bit old computer. Awful !!! I even couldn't set keyboard to my language! And only 2 languages available interface Russian and English. Very poor distro, much worse than Elive. I m going back to MX.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-05-22
Votes: 11
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Note: I'm using the aarch64 version on Raspberry Pi.
Highly stable distro, and is one of the few rpm-based stable distros that have good compatibility with Raspberry Pi. Some of the issues I've found were some Wi-Fi detection problems, mainly when using a cellphone as Wi-Fi access point, and USB printer detection issues. I used a Epson TX125 and the distro didn't recognize it.
It has a good amount of apps in the main repositories, and flatpak works on command line perfectly. Flatpak doesn't work correctly on the main package manager.
MATE is very simple and has a design focused on productivity, not appearance. There are other options of DEs on the main distros. I tried IceWM without issues.
The Sound Switcher app is very useful when you have the Raspberry Pi connected via a KVM switch, unlike other distros it detects automatically the active headset connected on the switch.
I also couldn't install aarch64 RPM packages from files, says it can't find the package file location.
Besides the amount of issues being very great on aarch64, it is very functional, main distro applications works, and it can be used as a main OS in a Raspberry Pi.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-17
Votes: 13
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Used many Linux distress over the last 15 years or so. This is far and away the best I have handled so far. Install is a dream, easy to follow, intuitive(detects my global region without prompting). Has all the apps I need out of the box, and for any others Synaptic is there for me. Many other distro's could take a leaf out of ALT's book (especially Ubuntu), Wi-Fi setup is a breeze even with a fairly proprietary laptop wi-fi card.
I think it's great and have just blasted all my other installed distro's off my Linux lappy
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-04-23
Votes: 10
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ALT has been around for a very long time, but I had never tried it before. So I gave it a whirl, expecting a tired, old, antiquated distro, maybe like Free BSD. Wow! Was I wrong. ALT is modern and solid. I encountered no issues, just a fine tuned, non-nonsense, smooth running machine. I think it would be great for beginners, and production folk who need a reliable operating system. My only concern is that, being an independent distro you may have to work with it a bit to get some modern programs like Zoom, Skype to run, but that can be overcome. I believe ALT Linux is an undiscovered gem.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-04-13
Votes: 4
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I used Simply Linux Live CD/USB version. Plus:
It fits preinstalled the most essential programs on 2G USB stick: Chromium browser, LibreOffice, VLC, Gimp and a few other tools and utilities. So, even installed on HD it would be a working minimalist distro.
It was fast. The wi-fi was recognized and launch very quickly.
Used 400 MB RAM on 3G RAM machine. By comparison MX used 600 MB (Antix - under 200 MB)
. Software installation seems easy with Synaptic.
Negative (for me):
The Stick version is not Persistent as some suggest. 'Session Support' refers rather to saving some settings than to full persistence MX/Antix style.
I did not see an internal tool for a snapshot or a recreation of the image on eternal media (for installed system). Perhaps, the workstation (4G+) has more utilities.
This is definitely a good candidate for a HD install, but not for a working persistent stick use.
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Project: ALT Linux
Version: 9.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-16
Votes: 12
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I have tested many operating systems, which I do for fun. I do not think I have given any one a perfect 10. Wow, I was surprised by Alt Linux (Xfce).
• On my Acer Aspire 3, it is slick, and works absolutely flawlessly. I tried USB persistence (they call it session support), and this worked immediately.
• The installed software is sparse, but with a connection, one can quickly remedy that, through the generous Synaptic package manager.
• The only thing that doesn't get a like is its appearance. While there is nothing wrong with it, this is not as beautiful or polished as Western systems.
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