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OpenMandriva Lx
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Reader supplied reviews for OpenMandriva Lx
Average rating
8.2 from 68 review(s)
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-20
Votes: 6
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Really great to see that this project is alive and well as it used to be my favorite distro (original Mandrake) for work/play back in 1998-2004. It was a great setup back then
These new releases of the XFCE and Gnome desktop environments feel really solid and I'd like to set it up as my daily driver soon. It looks super clean and seems to have everything I need for programming. Definitely worth checking this out for a tight desktop setup. Thanks to all contributing this this project and keep up the great work!
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-17
Votes: 9
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Solid 10/10 for me. Make it comptatible with Ventoy out-of-the-box. One of the best (if not THE best) KDE experience ever. Cool visuals, wallpapers, etc. Feels nice to revisit Connectiva, Madrake and Mandriva roots on this one.
A bit harsh to install Nvidia drivers. Manageable but nothing as hard as on Fedora. Yikes
It's going to be my daily driver and I'll stop ditro-hopping.
It surely deserves more views, reviews and media attention on this one.
It really should be on Top 10.
Nice work. Kudos to the DEVs
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Version: cooker
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-06
Votes: 33
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So far so good thus I give it a 9 out of 10.
The first thing is the out-of-the-box usability they've done for KDE.
With many other distros when I've trieed them out for use of KDE, I found them to be limiting in being able to copy files to a FAT32 "non-removable" disk all down to the fact they've locked out the root account thus disabling the ability to sudo/su for edge cases.
This makes edge-cases for us power-users very possible.
This brings back the easier theming system as I just don't have time to sit there figuring out the theming intricacies of other DEs when I may often tweak some looks.
This is great as now I can make my themes quickly and easily to mirror my femboyish attributes, which brings me onto a point:
OenMandriva has explicitly distanced themselves from politics to put as much efforts as possible into making a working product, which going by their rolling distro (so between latest and cooker distro) and their cooker distros, is getting there very quickly for a team smaller than the bigger players.
I feel very included by the distro's efforts because they've delivered whereas other distros make me feel like I'm being treated as irresponsible in the way they lock KDE down and I often find people like myself being used as a pawn in their infighting, often causing such massive reputation backlash to my community which ends up in us getting the blame for the actions of those claiming to be looking out for us.
OpenMandriva by staying clear of such politics has made a distro that will help those of us who've been used as tropes by others.
For one, I can finally use KDENLIVE!!!
This means I can ditch the unactivated copy of Windows 10 as now I can edit videos for the first time in 6 years on Linux since that was also broken by KDE being broken on other distros for several years.
Secondly, WINE seems to be working better already out of the box, I've still to experiment to get a working system to play some games like GTA 4, SR2 and a few other old classics, the rest I'm sure I can sort the Steam client app and Proton out to run.
Audacity isn't broken either, whereas it was on my Debian install. No need to set up Pulseaudio as a secondary soundsystem yet.
All the usual expected stuff is there out of the box and considering my first serious Linux distro was PCLinuxOS 2009 to get away from the impending end of XP support, I'm kinda going back to my roots by going with OpenMandriva as there's similarities genetically between the two.
P.s. It's also quite usable if someone was a Windows Power-User who doesn't mind spending the tine to move over to a more freedom respecting operating system.
For normie users, this distro maybe a bit too powerful for ya.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-06
Votes: 11
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New users don't really care what desktop environment is used. They don't care what package manager is used. They just want a desktop that is easy and reliable, in productivity or entertainment. OpenMandriva provides that.
It's rare to find a Linux distribution that's not based on Ubuntu, Debian, or Arch. That's not to say they don't exist, and OpenMandriva is independent. Mandrake the predecessor was a special take on Linux because it had one very important goal: make Linux easy to use for all, bit like what is Ubuntu's stance too.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 3
Date: 2025-02-04
Votes: 0
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So, let me state this loud and clear right out of the way: OpenMandriva Lx Rome is not prime-time ready. And if you thought you are in for some user-friendly and polished Linux experience, then be horribly disappointed. First hour, it crashed on me four times, yes FOUR freaking kernel panics in less than an hour; that in itself should be saying something to do with stability.
But wait, there's more! The repos? Forget it. They are slow as syrup, and even when they actually load, half the stuff you try to install either fails to install or manages to break something else. Every time you run dnf update, it is like playing roulette. And, oh yeah, xdg-desktop-portal: that's totally hosed, meaning some basic functionality just plain does not work. Great.
Then, of course, there's KDE. oh boy, where to begin? Bloat city, population: you. Even the "slim" version feels overweight, packed full of features you'll never use and none of the ones you do need. Missing settings here, broken apps there. what a mess. Unless you actually like trawling through forums and editing config files just to make your system usable, you're in for a world of hurt.
And let me tell you something about usability: unless you are some sort of seasoned Linux veteran who can troubleshoot your way out of a paper bag, this distro will leave you stranded. So much is not properly configured out of the box that rookies and maybe even intermediates are in for a bad time. You'll spend more time fixing issues than actually getting things done.
If you're looking for a solid, working rolling-release distribution, then keep away from OpenMandriva Lx Rome and head to openSUSE Tumbleweed: rock solid, no drama with multiple DEs/WMs, and fast, dependable mirrors. You won't also waste hours trying to fix what shouldn't break in the first place.
In short, unless you’ve got the patience of a saint and the skills of a wizard, give OpenMandriva Lx Rome a wide berth. Your sanity will thank you.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-03
Votes: 7
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OM is peak Linux.. If you are tired of distros that feel like an ongoing project rather than a finished product, OpenMandriva . is the only one that hasn’t given me a single hiccup, & at this point I don’t see myself distro-hopping anytime soon like I'd been doing for years.
One of the biggest surprises for me has been how effortlessly it runs KDE Plasma. Every other distro I’ve tested—Fedora, Arch, Debian-based ones, you name it—has given me some kind of issue with Plasma, whether it’s crashes, weird graphical glitches, or outright refusing to function properly. But with OpenMandriva, Plasma runs buttery smooth right out of the box.
Only downside for me is that some dnf packages are disabled, & I have to build from source when installing a super obscure thing, though it's a personal case, definitely doesnt affect average daily drive.. & ofc flatpaks often come in handy then. Beyond that, OpenMandriva feels like a distro made by people who actually care about polish & quality. I felt at home right away with dnf & rpm, system updates are reliable, and there’s no unnecessary bloat; you get a clean, functional system without having to strip things down yourself. Again I reiterate, OM feels like a finished product, no tweaks, no deep dives into config files—just a rock-solid experience from the start... the closest distro to me that is comparable to proprietary software so far, without being something restrictive like immutables.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-02
Votes: 4
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Stable and Up-to-Date: OpenMandriva offers a stable and up-to-date system, with regular updates and security patches to ensure the system remains secure and functional.
Rolling Release Model: OpenMandriva follows a rolling release model, which means that once installed, the system can be updated to the latest packages and versions without the need for a full reinstallation.
Customizable: OpenMandriva provides a high degree of customization, allowing users to tailor their system to meet their specific needs and preferences.
Strong Community: OpenMandriva has an active and supportive community, with forums, documentation, and other resources available to help users troubleshoot issues and learn more about the distribution.
Packaging and Repositories: OpenMandriva uses the RPM package manager and has its own repositories, which are well-maintained and offer a wide range of software packages.
Hardware Support: OpenMandriva has good hardware support, including support for a wide range of graphics cards, sound cards, and other peripherals.
Security: OpenMandriva takes security seriously, with features such as firewall configuration, SELinux support, and regular security updates to help protect the system from threats.
User-Friendly: OpenMandriva is designed to be user-friendly, with a simple and intuitive installation process and a range of tools and applications to help users get started with their Linux journey.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-01
Votes: 1
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No fluff, just solid computing. The best distro I've used in years. In five months of daily usage I've yet to encounter a single problem. Highly underrated project.
It's extremely stable for a rolling distro, about at the same stability level as Tumbleweed, in my opinion. No problems with all my hardware either, I've been able to setup my HP printer and my wifi dongle in minutes. Very helpful community and great and well structured documentation wiki (nothing like the Arch wiki, to be clear, but very complete and clear).
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-29
Votes: 2
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I was hesitating to try this independent Linux distro. Did so in the past but always had issues (printer, second screen, 3d acceleration not available, thus poor performance in software like Blender).
Not so with OpenMandriva.
Pretty much everything aside from Nvidia card 3D acceleration worked right away. For that, some tinkering and reading their forums (search for Open Source Nvidia driver, use the "Rome" branch of OpenMandriva) was required, but that's just how Linux can be at times. Glad I'm not depending on Debian/Ubuntu based Distros anymore.
If any of the devs is reading this: good job, you've got yourself a new user.
Suggestions: Less blue design elements (most standard apps use blue icons, hard to distinguish). I've installed custom icons as a workaround. Also consider a diffent default image viewer that allows page switching with left and right key
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 5
Date: 2025-01-27
Votes: 1
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I was really excited for testing OpenMandriva since I was an user of Mandrake Linux from the good old days, I still remember Mandrake 9.0 and my first "Firewall distro" MNF if I remember correctly. Well, let's try OpenMandriva but for me the hardest part was to actually download the ISO and I spend 30 minutes trying to find some verification files in openmandriva.org but nothing came up...then after googling I found sha1 and md5, but for realease 24.07 not 24.12...and what about PGP signatures? I mean, it is a common practice to verify your downloaded ISO, or isn't? OK, I could not find anything but I download it anyway and then I noticed it does not run well with Ventoy...OK...let's try a new USB drive this time with Balena Etcher and just for OpenMadriva ISO, and well it is just fine, even with my NVIDIA Card but, nothing to call hom,e to be honest. I mean it looks good, it is quick, even with a 2013 laptop the QT version is nice, but definitely they need to work on their site and provide verification files and for the moment is a nice "LiveCD" distro to me.
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Version: cooker
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-26
Votes: 3
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The Best distro I have used in years, no fluff just solid computing which is not the case in 2025 with most other distros! I like the extra tools that Open Mandriva add to make setting up the OS as comfortable as possible. From the Web Browser options to the package management system everything is totally rock solid even on the experimental branch which I am using! I have bounced around from Solus, Mint, Fedora, Arch and the usual popular distros but Open Mandriva is breath of fresh air in a very stale and bland time for the Linux/BSD world!
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 4
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Been using OpenMandrive for a week now, and really like how well it performs on my Lenovo X1 Carbon. Without any adjustments, the battery life is so much better than what I was getting with running plain Ubuntu on the same laptop.
The welcome screen has been well organized with tabs for information, settings, and applications recommendations to get you up and running quickly and easily. I use my laptop for work, and I was able to easily get everything I needed installed and configured quickly with OpenMandriva. Everything has been fast, stable and easy to use. My 4 year old laptop feels like OpenMandriva was made for it.
The only minor issue I need to figure out is when I disconnect from using the Cisco Secure Client VPN, I sometimes have to restart my network manager to get the Internet working again. I didn't have that issue with Ubuntu, but it's not a deal breaker and I'm sure I'll figure out how to resolve this, but I like OpenMandriva and will be keeping this as my daily driver.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 1
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Very stable distro. Have tried all of their flavors. I started with Rock them went to Rome and Cooker finally settling in Rome. There is a big with Sddm and Nvidia cards but can be fixed with the install of lightdm and disabling the compositor.
Overall very nice distro and a great community that will help solve any problems that seem to come up.
I have been using Linux for the better part of 20 years and find this stable as a rolling release can be. Documentation is clear and if you cannot find a problem the forums are a great place to find it with answers coming quick and fixes being implemented when a big is found
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Version: cooker
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 1
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This is by far the most interesting distribution I've seen in a long time: It's developed independently and their spins range from super user friendly Plasma 6 for newbies to minimalistic CLI only server image a newbie won't be able to do much with.
I'm running the Plasma 6 spin on my desktop and the CLI only version on my server. Both are working great and optimized for the purpose.
While I was initially just interested in trying out something new in a VM, I ended up switching my main OS and I won't be going back to Ubuntu.
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Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 3
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OpenMandriva Rock 5.0 has been the most stable distro I have used in 12 years of using Linux. I really like that they are not mandated into releasing on a set schedule and instead only release when it is ready. I appreciate this attention to detail and the desire to truly make a desktop distro that cares about being stable and functional. My favorite thing is the OpenMandriva allows you to configure hibernation through the installer. I have not seen any other Linux distro do this.
I feel like this distro will de around for the long haul, and I want to support it.
Tired of jumping distros and looking for one that you can just rely on? Give OpenMandriva a try. You wont regret it.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 1
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I came to OpenMandriva as a complete newbie to Linux and am really surprised at how easy it was to set everything up. It wasnt a basic computer either. Ive got several hard drives, 2 monitors, 2 audio devices, 2 mice a great Nvidia card and a printer and it recognized all of it without having to go hunt for solutions.I only had to use command line once to install Brave. It couldn't have been much easier to get everything up and running.
I dont have any experience in other Linux distros to compare against but this has been so easy I dont really have a reason to try anything else.
I might not have to go back to Windows ever again.
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Version: 5.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-21
Votes: 2
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Trying out OM Rome as my daily driver. I particularly like that they aren't beholden to upstream bureaucracy. I am a perpetual noob, not a gamer and definitely not a power user. I had to learn about dnf packages and actually put some effort into configuring my Brother printer (also thanks to Brother for the driver installation tool).
Older hardware but it's working well.
My favorite desktop is xfce but kde works well so far. I'll have to try installing xfce and see how that goes.
Not sure how extensive or active the community is but there seems to be a substantial increase in interest in the distro, which is good news as far as I'm concerned.
Also using MX Linux and Endeavour OS
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 5
Date: 2025-01-16
Votes: 0
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I tested the ROME Plasma6x11 x86_64 operating system, but the overall experience was not satisfactory.
First, the installation was problematic. It didn’t work with Ventoy, and I had to use ImageWriter instead.
Secondly, after installing the NVIDIA driver (via the suggested icon on the welcome screen for hardware setup), I encountered frequent random black screens, which made the system unstable.
Additionally, the boot speed was average—nothing particularly fast or impressive.
Beyond these issues, I didn’t find anything particularly noteworthy or special about the system.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-10
Votes: 1
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The hardest part is downloading the ISO, because most browsers are blocking it as an insecure download. Once you get past that part, it is a great distro.
It is not based on any other distro. It is its own thing. It uses DNF to handle the RPMs. I am running Rome/Wayland/Plasma 6 on an AMD system and it is flawless.
The only problem I see is they need more maintainers to help get packages into their repositories.
I have been running Tumbleweed for years and I am switching to OpenMandriva Rome as my daily driver. It is a great distribution and it deserves to be much more popular.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-09
Votes: 1
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I use OMLx ROME (KDE/Wayland) on my primary ThinkPad as my daily driver for some time now. There is really not much negative to say. It is very stable, fast and gives you a lot of options regarding additional software repositories.
Pros:
- Extremelly stable for a rolling distro, about at the same stability level as Void.
- Big selection of additional software repositories (extra, non-free, Chrome, Brave, VS Code and so on).
- An excellent, helpful and cool community, On the OM forum, you get a helpful response in 20 minutes max., usually even much faster.
- The people behind OM are very neutral and technology-oriented. Not even a slight trace of some political or ideological nonsense.
- Great and well structured documentation wiki.
- Official COSMIC spin.
Cons:
- For installer to install boot loader on the older ThinkPads (like T420) correctly, you must know to disable legacy boot mode in BIOS. Otherwise it may not install boot loader correctly (at least in my case).
- No official Hyprland spin.
Those are the only cons I can think of. Nothing else comes to mind, honestly. Everything just works as expected, and works really well.
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Version: 5.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-01-08
Votes: 0
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Tried the LXQt live disc (of the Rock version, which is supposed to be the more stable version). Opened the code editor program, opened the Preferences menu and then Appearances.
Tried to open the Theme drop-down; for a second or two, nothing happened, then the editor crashed.
I re-opened it, then tried the Theme drop-down again. This time a list of themes appeared, but before I could
read all their names, the editor crashed again.
Will wait for the next major version, because this one seems a buggy mess.
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Version: 24.12
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-01-07
Votes: 4
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I love this distro, would get a perfect score if they had better support for NVIDIA out of the box. They need to look at what Nobara / Endeavor / Manjaro are doing in this regard and implement a similar system. As it stands now, to get the most out of my card, I would have to do quite a lot of legwork myself on OM.
But there is a lot to love here if you have hardware that doesn't require proprietary software like NVIDIA. They aren't out to please the appeasers. The OM group isn't going to cancel you for speaking against the rainbow mafia
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Version: 24.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-05
Votes: 48
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ROME is a good alternative to Manjaro, it's stable and very up-to-date, and it's made by a totally independent team. I just wonder why this distro isn't better known, it really deserves to be looked at.
Pro:
-credible mandriva successor
-ROME is a very up to date rolling release
-Fast and reactive OS
-Good KDE integration
Con:
-Uses DNF (I could imagine urpmi or the team developing or modifying another package manager)
-Lack of popularity
-Small team
-The installer (calamares) have some problems
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Version: 24.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-04
Votes: 16
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This distribution is very much underrated.
The distro runs fast;
Good selection of the default pre-installed applications; others can be installed from repositories "Main" and the so-called "Unsupported". The latter must be expressly enabled.
Documentation is the strict necessary at the wiki. In the forum there is more and it's more user-friendly. The most required FAQs are covered and the people there are pretty good responsive;
The default desktop environment KDE Plasma is well maintained and up to date.
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Version: 24.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-29
Votes: 8
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It is a Linux distribution with the best software technologies in the world. Its unique Control Panel is the best among Linux distributions.
It is free, does not charge a fee. It has desktop options suitable for every hardware.
Downloads with desktop options;
Kde version
Gnome version
Lxqt version
It used the most advanced software technology among Linux distributions even when it first came out, Thanks to the Control Panel, which is the best, everything is intuitive and very easy to use.
All configurations can be made very easily with the Control Panel.
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Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-09
Votes: 18
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Absolutely a blast to run, the Calamares installer was error free, and rebooted into my login.Very nice themes and icons, one of the first items I like at, but easily changed to my liking. Default applications were a little much, but can be uninstalled if I like. A beginner should enjoy the ease of this distro while a more seasoned Linux user would feel right at home.
This distribution can be used as a stable, robust distribution for full desktop and constructive work. I now use it for graphic art, in which I manufacture decals.
Found no issues at all, zero. I think, a person who isn't accustomed to Openmandriva should catch on quite easily how to use it without being frustrated. Don't blame the distro, but the user, I would say.
I had this set up and ready as my daily driver, one of the best distros out there to use.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-14
Votes: 14
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Mandrake was one of the very first distro's that permanently resided on my hard disk, way back in 2001. Alas, as Windows was a necessity for work, the linux distros went to the archives. But here we are again. Been using OpenMandriva 4.3 Lx since August 2022 and I am so very pleased with it!
The Calamares installer put it on my disk effortless, the welcome screen guides you through the rest of the install. It runs flawlessly on the Asus x75c, 4 giga ddr and i3 processor 2.5 Ghz. Yes, things are done that bit differently (certainly when you come out of a debian environment). But everything is there. Updates are very good, and stuff is picked of the Rock repositories.
One drawback is the very long boot process, but I am blaming the old Asus for that. No bluetooth on the asus, so I cannot comment on that. Replaced the Falkon with Firefox, but for the rest there is a good basic selection of tools and apps to get things done.
For those that resent it, yes...it is systemd.
For me the Plasma desktop dark theme integration with the Kwin manager and Breeze Dark iconset is one of the most beautiful I have used up till now.
Definate keeper!
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Version: 5.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-12-01
Votes: 11
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I've been using OpenMandriva and find it quite useful whether as a live or installed medium, howevr as with any system crushes do happen, I find it sad that Openmandriva 5.0 COMPARED TO OTHERS LIKE oPENmANDRIVA 4.3, doesn't come packed with apps like Vlc, Smplayer chromium or some other apps we used to get off the basic distro, however, I can't complain much but appreciate that the this distro has improved a lot and will continue using it as my favourite distro, I've tried other distros like OpenSuse, Kali, Ubuntu, Fedora,etc, yet this OpenMandriva is my personal favourite.
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Version: 23.08
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-12-01
Votes: 0
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I am not sure why you would choose this.
I downloaded and tried this. Some neat tweaks and utilities were found to handle certain aspects and appearance, but really, if the distro doesn't support DEB or RPM packages today then that seems to really limit what I can do easily. There is no plethora of documentation out there to be able to use this as a daily workstation or server use, and the repositories are limited.
For fun, I thought I would try to install Apache webserver. Once I figured out dnf I then had to Google for information which all I came up with is a couple of sites with information from 2011. And it still did not work. This just doesn't seem to be a distro I could use daily. I did find support for AppImage, but that's not gonna cut it. Why use a distro that is a challenge to set up and use the way you need?
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Version: 5.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-11-27
Votes: 6
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The OpenMandriva system as such is excellent, all the hardware works for me, the installation went without errors, the system works quickly. The only thing that bothers me is the absence of many applications and packages that I'm used to from other distributions (Linux Mint, Fedora), but it's not a problem, just a sigh. I would definitely find alternatives to the missing apps. Otherwise, I must say that the developers of the OpenMandriva system are doing an excellent job, which the users of this system will fully appreciate.
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Version: 23.08
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-09-14
Votes: 0
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I can not recommend this distribution. Everything is broken. System update is broken: Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rolling-x86_64-unsupported. Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rolling-x86_64-restricted. Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rolling-x86_64-non-free. DnfDrake is broken : This application has raised an unexpected error and must abort. [29] Invalid object. FLOADLISTE.Timer1_Timer.86. The Matrix bridge is broken. Never seen that before in any other distribution I used.
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Version: 23.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-11
Votes: 20
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I couldn't agree more with one of the previous reviewers: OpenMandriva is a hidden gem (easily the best distribution I've ever tried, and I've tried many) hidden under just about the worst possible promotion (or lack thereof).
Maybe the OpenMandriva guys are intentionally trying to be the opposite of Apple (perfect marketing with products just barely meeting MVP demands), but that doesn't work.
Now to be fair, OpenMandriva is a pure Open Source project that doesn't have any big name sponsoring behind it, so we can't expect their PR to be on par with, say, Ubuntu. Maybe by the nature of the work, it seems to be a lot easier to get excellent developers to work for free than to get good marketeers to work for free.
But back to the OS: It combines ease of use (I think I could give this to my grandma) with sane underlying technologies (I think I could give this to Linus Torvalds himself as well) and a current software stack - where from any other distribution I've tried you get only 2 out of 3, in particular ease of use and a sane core system tend to be mutually exclusive.
It also dares to diverge from what everyone else is doing where it makes sense (such as building the entire system with clang).
Documentation could be better, but to make up for it, the community on the Matrix channel is extremely helpful and often manages to fix problems the same day they're reported.
If anyone with marketing skills is reading this review, why not help them out? It would be great to have an OpenMandriva level product with Mint level publicity!
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Version: 23.08
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-09-06
Votes: 0
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Hello
A BIG disappointment. Users of an Nvidia graphics card, this message is for you. From the live, there is no option during the installation process which allows you to select the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver. The nouveau driver will be used and depending on the model of your graphics card after the reboot you could have the unpleasant experience of a desktop freeze taking the whole system with it. Only an hard reset will be possible with the possibility of a corrupted file system. Bravo !
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Version: 23.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-31
Votes: 2
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Very cool and interesting distribution. Clang and zen/lto optimizations is something other systems don't offer and that's what sets this system apart. I'm glad there's finally a gnome and lxqt release, just a pity there's no xfce ISO. It's also worth adding a minimal ISO as example with i3 or sway or IceWM or something similar. A large number of packages and quite up to date. I don't know if I'll stick with this system yet, but it looks interesting so far.
The downside here is the lack of good organization of the forum. Weak wiki, and the website itself is not encouraging. The page is sad, grey, it looks as if it is colorless. News about the system is hidden and should be promoted immediately after entering. You never know when a new entry will appear - browsing it on a mobile device is even worse. Announcements, news are also not very transparent, they look like gibberish, without sense. The sentences blend together. It's something they need to work on. You need to change the page, look better. Make the news visible, and make their content visually appealing and finally tell what the actual news is. I don't want to read the news about the new release, which is a copy paste from the previous release, in which only the numbers of the updated software have been replaced. People, that's not how you attract people to you. See the news on other distributions and learn from them because you have a good system, but you can't promote it.
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Version: 23.03
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-28
Votes: 4
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I've been using Ubuntu for a long time, but wanted to see Plasma 6. Since I'm admittedly too lazy to build it myself, when I saw OpenMandriva's preview release, I decided to give that a try.
Despite the fact that I know Plasma 6 stable won't be released for a few more months, this is a great experience - I didn't find any serious problems, and even non-KDE applications like LibreOffice and Chromium work well and with a Plasma feel to them.
Despite Google's decision to dump Jpeg XL for political reasons, OpenMandriva patched it back into Chromium, giving me the Jpeg XL support I want in my browser out of the box.
I don't know if it's because of Plasma 6 or because of the OpenMandriva core under it, but the whole system seems faster than my previous Ubuntu install.
I don't think I'll be going back to Ubuntu. But if Plasma 6 destabilizes before it stabilizes for good, I may try OpenMandriva's Plasma 5 version.
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Version: 23.03
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-12
Votes: 6
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This distro is very sadly under rated. I have been an Arch Linux user for the past 5 years and the only other distro that I have ever switched to is Debian, until now. OpenMandriva is now my main operating system it is very agile and everything that I have thrown at it works. I gave it only a 9 rating because in the etc file system the printing functions should be activated and not left to the user to do so, because not all users would know how to do this especially new users to Linux. Also, using both RPM and DNF as installers really coners all posiible applications install posibilities. I was using Mandrake way pack in 1997 and helped wrote scripts for dependencies and after Mandrake and then when Mandriva took over I sighed with relief that it was still being worked on at that time, but when they gave up and some of the coders deceided to keep it alive at that point I switched between Arch and Debian and sadly totally forgot about Mandriva until now. Welcome back Mandriva I really did miss you.
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Version: 23.03
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-07
Votes: 8
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I to use Mandriva back in the old days but after trying their non-rolling version I decided to try the rolling version and its a great experience. Uses Calamares to install which went pretty quickly and you have a decent amount of apps at first boot. Falkon and Chromium are the two browsers, with LibreOffice already installed. It uses its own system update manager thru Konsole and Discover simplu doesnt work to update the system. Discover though is the source for Flatpaks and DNFDragora is the package manager and it works very well. The welcome control center is handy especially for new users who arent as experienced . Codecs are installed by default so no multimedia issues. Hardware detection is good as my wifi was seen but the printer was a no go. System config printer is installed so I checked and installed the Canon printer driver and it was seen and installed.
The speed of the system is noticeably faster than some other distros I use and memory usage was very reasonable. The overall appearance of OM is amazing, one of the more beautiful distros Ive seen with even more choices available. KDE 5.27.5 and the 6.3.5 kernel are installed which didnt cause any issues with my Dell Optiplex 7010 sff nor my Lenovo Thinkcentre m900 tiny.
There were a few issues though, such as Discover not being able to update the system, more than likely by design. Then I noticed when adding or removing favorites in the menu, the changes dot happen immediately. You end up having to logout then login and then it works. Its a bug they apparently are aware of but haven't fixed yet. Overall the user experience is excellent. The iso isa 2.6gb which isnt too bad and you can also try other DE's. The forums are petty responsive which I appreciated after some bad experiences with other forums.
I liked this distro enough to switch over to it as a long term OS and see how it does but its a nice change of pace from all the Debian, Ubuntu and Arch clones. Give it a try and I think youll find it a great experience.
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Version: 23.03
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-04-07
Votes: 9
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First I have to say I did not have any issues installing the distro. I have read that some had blank screens and crashes I did not. There were some small isssues that I had to resolve myself like printing and Latte not all apps icons stayed put. Getting past these small issues Open Mandriva Lx is very fast and it is very stable. I have been an Arch Linux user for more then 5 years but right now Open Mandrive Lx is my main driver and I am very happy using it. It also uses less ram for some strange reason then Arch and handles my Nvidia driver without any issues. It also intergrates with Flatpak seamlessly much better then Arch Linux as an example. I can not compare this with other distros such as Debian or Ubuntu since I do not use those other distros but Arch I will say that it can and does do some things better then Arch Like Flatpak and Nvidia drivers intergartion as n example. I gave it a 8 rating only because of those small issues and to be honest I have never given any distro a 10 not even Arch Linux.
Hope this has been helpful.
Cheers
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-08
Votes: 8
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I had to choose the version as 23.01, but the latest version of Rome is 23.03.
I have been using Openmandriva since it was born, after having used Mandriva and Mandrake for a long time.
Over the past 3 years it has become my main distro.
I am very satisfied with Openmandriva: it is fast, stable and complete. No problems with installation, customization and daily use.
The rolling release has all the software up to date, but very rarely do I suffer from blockages of the programs or of the entire system.
Forum support is very good, both in English and Italian, problems are quickly addressed and resolved by the support team. There is certainly a lot still to be done, but I would recommend the distro to average Linux users.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-30
Votes: 20
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Unlike the reviewer in DW Weekly, I can't find any instability in this rolling release. It works flawlessly. No crashes during installation, no X11 crashes, no Plasma crashes even with full graphical effects.
It includes everything a normal user will need, and it's all working and the components go well together. No weirdness of different applications using different button order ("Yes|No" vs. "No|Yes") that plagues some other distros.
If you're looking for something that "just works", give OpenMandriva a try!
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-27
Votes: 4
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I have been wandering from countless distro to distro, to find a perfect distro. Ubuntu family is always my place to go home, because everything just works without hassle.
I was curious about OpenMandriva znver architecture, bacuse I have a ryzen laptop. So I gave it a try and suprisingly, it works very well on my laptop. Everything works by default, don't need to install anything. Also, it runs fast and responsive.
For a while I will dig deeper to this beautiful distro. Maybe would be my future destination to stay.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-17
Votes: 3
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As a distro hopper this version impressed with speed(boot up) install, and aesthetically pleasing overall build. Been using about 3+ weeks and all my favorite packages were available and installed and ran perfectly. Still stable after several updates. Installed on high performance nvme in genuine USB 3.2 Ver 2 enclosure with near max performance. Faster that many of my computers. I recommend you check it out. Its a keeper! My small lenovo quad core atom laptop has had manjaro running for over 4 years faultlessly. The Rome 23.01 is the only other distro I will consider. Strictly a KDE person.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 8
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Typing this from Open Mandriva Rolling release. This distro deserves top spot, I did have one freeze during installation but a reboot and fresh install sorted that out. Please dont expect everything to be perfect (its a rolling release) and you get the freshest packages to date including kernel.
For an rpm distro this blows fedora out of the water and is miles quicker. The new control centre is spot on and a nice feature to have. The desktop by default is the best themed kde desktop out of the box and there is no need to change anything.
The Team have done an excellent job putting this together and having a Mandriva based rolling distro is by far the best way to go as I dont like to keep installing a new system every 6 to 10 months.
I suggest to anyone looking at this distro to just install it. Should the install freeze just reboot and start again, it will work then but dont let the computer screen go off into standby as this is what froze my first install attempt.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-01-13
Votes: 0
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There were issues trying to get sshd enabled. It would start on demand, but not enable for automatic system load. Also, network issues happened when changed from DHCP to Fixed IP Address.
It is a nice looking distro. The KDE implementation is very nice. I really like that they have put together a rolling release. However, it is just not quite there yet.
The default programs are pretty good. However, Falkon as the default browser could be better. Firefox is not installed by default. It is easy enough to install; just a bit peculiar.
Package Management system is very nice and works well. I appreciate the different repositories. That was a nice touch.
The installation was flawless. Everything worked and was very easy.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-13
Votes: 6
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Astonished, Having used Fedora for years, I literally jumped on a whim to OpenMandriva LX (Rome), why, just for a laugh really. I testing out a new Micro-SD card in a fancy adapter and used an OpenMandriva live image for that purpose. It was an independent release, not based on anything, its why I chose it, which is why I was using Fedora in the first place, I just went with the base KDE set up as I did not expect to be still using it after I had tested the Micro-SD card's speed, etc.
I was astonished at its speed on the SD card, I formatted my fedora 37 (Gnome) SSD and installed OpenMandriva LX (Rome).
Installation was a breeze and very quick, booting up is fast, in fact everything about OpenMandriva LX is a massif performance boost over my old OS. The Desktop is light years away from Gnome and for the better. I have everything I want or need downloaded and installed without any problems, I use several VPNs and love the way the internet connection when establishing also establishes my preferred VPN at the same time, small thing I know but efficient all the same. Still finding my feet with KDE, but I think Gnome has had its day with me as has Fedora. I'm converted.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-09
Votes: 0
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Would love to leave a great review about how wonderful and stable OM is, however after several attempts to install it and having the installer crash it becomes impossible to do. If they seem to have issues with their calamares installer then it brings into question the stability of the system overall.
If a person is fairly confident in their terminal and want a rolling release model, then Void may be a better option. I will return to Void. It was my thought that using something that has been around as long as OM that they should have everything down solid. For some reason it just isn't there.
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Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-07
Votes: 3
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I was skeptical but I tried the ROME - rolling release version and this will probably be my new default system. It works flawlessly and is fast - I think it works more efficiently than Opensuse Tumbleweed.
Fresh packages list reminds me Arch but this OpenMandriva is a way more stable than Arch.
Really nice distro. Worth to try if you looking for new packages updates, really well optimized and three package managers to choose: default one dnf, upcoming beta dnf5 also well known from suse - zypper.
I can recommend this release.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-10
Votes: 4
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Personally, I'm only interested in five criteria in an operating system: fast and foolproof installation, simple operation, as few updates as possible, acceptable security level, stability. That is the case with OM. The Calamares installer is famous for its simplicity, everything is fast. In the so-called rock branch, practically nothing is updated unless it has to be (I like that); the packages are up-to-date enough. Every 12 months a new version is released and then I invest 10 minutes to wipe the SSD and to reorganize the system. With flatpaks I keep my browsers or office software up to date or also use the Chrome or Edge browser as rpm package. Everything is very stable, as are Debian, Opensuse and Ubuntu LTS but OM being somehow more streamlined and simple at the same time.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-10-12
Votes: 3
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After many years and many Linux distros, I must say how brilliant OpenMandriva is! It's been around for a while so why is something so good not getting more attention? The stable Rock version works well on a 14 year old laptop. What you get is a professional distro that's well featured out of the box, simple to use with Fedora style dnf commands, and quick enough on the old hardware. Speeds when updating and installing software via terminal is especially impressive. Also like that the Rock version has a modern kernel and only requires minimal updates.
OpenMandriva has firmly joined ranks with my favourite Debian distros if wanting a low maintenance easy stable system.
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Version: 5.0-candidate
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-05
Votes: 6
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Tried OpenMandriva 5.0 ROME silver candidate primarily out of curiosity, to see what happened to the very first Linux distribution I tried back in the late 1990s.
I was very positively surprised - while all the things that made Mandriva good back in its day (very easy to use, but without giving up the flexibility an advanced user wants) are still there, the things that made the user experience a bit weird back then (out of place perl-GTK configuration tools on a KDE desktop etc.) have been fixed.
It is also a lot faster. I wonder what they did to make this happen. Is it clang?
I'm straying from my original plan and not switching back to Fedora. This is better.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-07-29
Votes: 1
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This experience is about openmandriva Lx 4.3.
installed this OS just to see how Mandrake OS has evolved.
OS performance was smooth and brought back Mandriva memories.
Pros:
boot loader,login screen,wallpaper,taskbar overall theme is very beautiful.
Open Mandriva Control center, provides option to configure settings very easily instead of using command line.
has option to set theme like ubuntu,windows,Mac OS
most of the HW was detected and performed well.
provides DNF package manager, which is blazing fast.
comes with KDE plasma as default DE, it uses around 1.2 GB upon initial boot.
apps opens and rsponds quickly.
Cons:
the only Con which forced me to uninstall was Brightness keys were not working after following all possible Steps,was stuck with LCD screen with Max Brightness for whole time..
Wiki and Forum has very less documentation/Q&A.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-27
Votes: 3
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I installed by accident OpenMandriva on my laptop. Fedora / Open Suse was supposed to work but I had an issue with my usb key.
I've been using it daily since one week and it's working great. Astonished by the performance, I won't go back to xfce. As someone said earlier, OM is an underrated distro. If you stick to the main repo you won't be able to use some fancy apps but the stability is great. I'm exciting to check how it will perform with the 5.x upgrade. Anyway adding other repo is quiet easy if you want more packages.
Tiny community doesn't mean that slow, you can share your feedback, test or contribute as you can to make the project go forward.
Give it a try ;-)
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-18
Votes: 3
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By far the best distro I've ever tried (and I've tried many). Whoever said "KDE" and "fast" don't go together should take a look at this distro to see how it's done right.
KDE on OpenMandriva feels as snappy as some of the lightweight desktops on other distros. Even on my trusty old laptop from 2012.
The community around this distro is small, but great. Where else can you bring up a feature you're missing on IRC and someone builds a working prototype (in this case, om-repo-picker) within a day? Granted, probably I was just lucky there. I still don't think another distro could pull it off.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-15
Votes: 6
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When I was using this distro, I switched my repos to the the rolling branch. It was done pretty easily with a gui tool and upgrading through the terminal.
Openmandriva is heavily underrated. Its a solid distro that seems to need more manpower with how their repos and packages are managed. When I was using it, Kate in LX 4.3 was slightly higher version then the rolling branch one. Which is quite odd.
I'd suggest leaving the stable releases in a semi-Debian style where they only get security updates. The rolling release should be the one with stable enough packages to roll over. Like Arch or Fedora or how Opensuse does it but without the snapshot style. Cooker can stay as cooker as the development branch. Overall I love that they strongly emphasize KDE Plasma. Their tweaks to it are beautiful and I hope to see more of it. Though I will say, there's far too many apps installed by default. Falkon is an odd choice of a default browser.
It uses dnf and that can be speed up. For some reason, dnfdragora works pretty well compared to Fedora. Pretty fast. BUT THAT'S NOTHING COMPARED TO DNFDRAKE
dnfdrake is amazing. It uses a terminal style interface with qt gui and it works so much better. I can't understand why its not installed by default. It should be front and center as a selling point of the distro. I love it!
This distro can improve alot and add more packages catered to gaming and zsh for the terminal. But overall, I want to use it again. I love it.
Its been rock solid. I love their control center.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-02-24
Votes: 2
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OpenMandriva 4.3 is a surprisingly nice distro! Everything works very well right out of the box. The installation was blazingly fast, and the Plasma 5 setup is very nice. I used "dnf" from the terminal to update, remove, and install software, and that happened very quickly and flawlessly. It's also refreshing that the RAM usage drops back to "fresh boot" levels after closing all running applications. I rarely see this these days, particularly with the likes of Fedora.
The changes I made from the defaults included:
Removed:
* Falkon
* Kmail
* Elisa (seriously, awful music player, why is everyone packaging this now? Part of Plasma these days, I guess). Side note: removing Elisa DIDN'T try to take all of KDE along with it. Hello, Debian and Ubuntu-based distros!
Installed:
* Firefox
* Thunderbird
* Strawberry (now THAT is a music player!)
* htop
* neofetch
Already comes with LibreOffice and vlc, so that's covered. Next steps will include GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus.
The only issue that kept me from giving OM a 10 was the inability to set up my Brother printer. Off to the forums to troubleshoot that one. Otherwise, it has been fast, stable, consistent, and reliable.
Hardware used is a ThinkPad T61, 8GB of RAM, 500GB HDD. Not exactly a spring chicken, but OM with Plasma 5 is very fast on this rig, more so than other distros with Plasma 5. As it stands now, OM is in the top 5 running to install to my much beefier desktop production rig.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-15
Votes: 1
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I haven´t used OpenMandriva until now - I have to say that I am very pleased with it. Thanks to the Calamares installer the installation is very fast and easy. My software needs are fulfilled, good flatpak support if needed. The OS is also easy to use and I really like the possibility to change from a rock solid fixed release model to the rolling release model just by a few clicks (no command line action).
Obviously an underrated distro with an elegant look.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-02-10
Votes: 0
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Up until now I have been using Linux Mint, which just works.
I had, however, been looking for a distro using Plasma that wouldn't break when updating (as Manjaro tends to do) and that doesn't irritate me in as Neon does when updating.
I discovered Mandriva Lx4.3 thanks to Distrowatch and installed it on an Intel machine and a Ryzen Slimbook.
As to whether it will prove reliable, I shall have to wait and see.
In the meantime I find it legible and elegant - in short, highly enjoyable to work with.
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Version: 4.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-02-07
Votes: 4
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Installation stops with error message: Leider wurde das Program kded5 unerwartet beendet.
kded5 PID: 1396 Signal: Segmantation fault
Tried installation from two different ISO-Files (from different locations), same error message
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Version: 4.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-01-29
Votes: 0
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I tried it briefly in Virtualbox.
It installed OK but slowly and is slow when running as a live distro.
Things improved when I installed it but Plasma is not my cup of tea. I just can't get on with it so struggled to get anything meaningful done. I don't know why OM sticks to Plasma as there are alternatives out there and if I had had a choice maybe I would have stuck around a bit longer
Calamares was new to me and coming from the likes of PCLinuxOS and Mageia very strange. The other two distros have more or less kept to the old Mandriva way of doing things and having cut my teeth on Mandrake they just feel more familiar. I don't agree with the Open Mandriva claim to be a direct descendant of Mandriva. They seem to have moved quite a long way away from the original, unlike the other two.
I can't recommend Open Mandriva based on my very fleeting experience but for someone not steeped in the old Mandrake ways may fare better.
An interesting experience but not one I will follow up.
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Version: 4.3-rc
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-13
Votes: 0
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Much more intuitive to use than Ubuntu. Also feels a lot snappier, even on fairly low end hardware.
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Version: 4.3-rc
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-12
Votes: 0
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Much more intuitive to use than Ubuntu. Also feels a lot snappier, even on fairly low end hardware.
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Version: 4.2
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-08-05
Votes: 9
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I started out on Mandrake way back when. I think it is sad that most of the Mandrake forks have vanished over the years. There are only a few left now. I love Mandrake's technology and innovations, but the open source continuance has issues, namely in KDE Plasma. It is so resource heavy that it installed without a hitch, but majorly slowed my computer to the point that it is largely unusable. Tweaking KDE Plasma is nearly impossible, both because it seems to be hardwired and because the system is so bogged down that it takes forever to do anything. Other forks of Mandrake/Mandriva are PC Linux OS (PCLOS) and Mageia, and I would recommend using them. At least they offer Xfce and Mate as alternatives and community editions have other interfaces that can be used in PCLOS, and the big install disks of Mageia have other interfaces to choose from. I don't understand why a distro would put all its eggs into the most resource heavy baskets. One of the goals of Linux is to be leaner, faster and lighter than Windows, but really resource heavy interfaces like KDE Plasma and Gnome totally defeat that purpose. If you are looking for a distro that works fast and is based off of Mandrake technology, I would say go PC Linux OS or Mageia, at least you can get a lighter weight version. If you have an uber computer with muscle to spare, you can Open Mandriva, otherwise give it a pass, unless they offer some lighter weight alternatives.
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Version: 4.2
Rating: 3
Date: 2021-03-17
Votes: 3
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Installation into VirtualBox went without a hitch, but it doesn't auto mount the shared folder.
The first thing that one gets to see on desktop is the word “official” on the wallpaper, that does not align to anything. Worse, it's Win Vista style doesn't match the rest, which is “flat” design. Welcome page is hard-coded and doesn't scale properly.
The default theme uses too many transparencies and is easily switchable to several presets, all of which are either just wrong (Mac), even worse than that (Win10) or absolutely wrong (Ubuntu).
Bad default set of software (Falkon browser??), no replacement (Firefox in OM is still on 85.0.1!), broken updater (exactly one update since release, FF 3 versions behind!)...
Probably all fixable, but bother if one can get something (Mageia e.g.) that does it all better?
In summary: Perfectly broken in every detail. AVOID.
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Version: 4.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-03-14
Votes: 0
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The only thing that has kept me off OpenMandriva Lx before was the lack of support for ARM hardware - really glad to see that's fixed in 4.2! Now happily using OpenMandriva Lx on my Pinebook Pro and Rock Pi 4C.
I'll also put it on my x86 desktop the next time I reinstall the OS - it's much more Plasma friendly, quite a bit faster, and more up to date than my current Debian setup. Love the addition of the rolling release!
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Version: 4.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 0
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Not tested everything, but installed without problems on a i5 desktop (not GPT) in its own partition alongside other op.systems. I got immediate support for something very little to my added hardware from the forum: very nice. Downloaded various additional packets "ready" from the welcome window without problems (please I did not download everything). Plasma latest 4.20, so for Plasma lovers this distro is really fine. Boot is not fast, but maybe this is due to my hardware (others distros I have on it are equally slow booting).
Tested live with full success with an i5 laptop and a pentium laptop with invidia cards too.
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Version: 4.2-rc
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-06
Votes: 1
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For testing I installed into VirtualBox (8Gb ram/6 cores/VboxSVGA) which went without a hitch. The default theme is very pleasant and easily changed to several presets which include Win7/Win10/Mac/Ubuntu which all add to the overall appeal. An excellent selection of ready-to-go apps are preinstalled allowing immediate productivity. The distro feels complete in every sense, for example there's no half-way houses or clunky work-arounds giving a feeling of being very complete. I used this as my daily driver for three days and liked it very much. I'm generally accustomed to MX Linux KDE, and to a lesser extent, Manjaro KDE around the workplace or the trusty Mint XFCE on all mobile equipment so I'm comparing my experiences with this distro directly with them. All in all I feel that if I had to switch over to OpenMandriva Lx tomorrow I would be very happy to do so. It certainly feels speedy which is always a good thing for those bothered by such things.
If I had to be picky the only thing that struck me during my second day of use was with Dolphin, there's no apparent way to right-click and navigate as root.. an annoyance with Manjaro too so not unusual but MX Linux does allow this which to my mind is the right way to go.
So overall then, very nice indeed.
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Version: 4.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-04
Votes: 0
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Openmandriva is quite complicated for the first time, when get the hang of things,
its quite very high performance and robust operating system.
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Version: 4.2-rc
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-02
Votes: 1
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Been using various flavors of Linux since 1998 and OpenMandriva 4.2-rc is the most up-to-date and polished distro I've ever tried. The installation was easy and all hardware on three systems (so far) has worked out-of-the-box. The OpenMandriva customizations of KDE Plasma are pleasing and functional. Take time to check out the Welcome page which makes it easy for beginners and lazy experts (ahem... ;o) to configure their system and add categories of applications such as Multimedia, Gaming, Development, etc... In summary: Perfect!
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Latest Reviews
Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-20
Votes: 6
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Really great to see that this project is alive and well as it used to be my favorite distro (original Mandrake) for work/play back in 1998-2004. It was a great setup back then
These new releases of the XFCE and Gnome desktop environments feel really solid and I'd like to set it up as my daily driver soon. It looks super clean and seems to have everything I need for programming. Definitely worth checking this out for a tight desktop setup. Thanks to all contributing this this project and keep up the great work!
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-17
Votes: 9
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Solid 10/10 for me. Make it comptatible with Ventoy out-of-the-box. One of the best (if not THE best) KDE experience ever. Cool visuals, wallpapers, etc. Feels nice to revisit Connectiva, Madrake and Mandriva roots on this one.
A bit harsh to install Nvidia drivers. Manageable but nothing as hard as on Fedora. Yikes
It's going to be my daily driver and I'll stop ditro-hopping.
It surely deserves more views, reviews and media attention on this one.
It really should be on Top 10.
Nice work. Kudos to the DEVs
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-06
Votes: 11
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New users don't really care what desktop environment is used. They don't care what package manager is used. They just want a desktop that is easy and reliable, in productivity or entertainment. OpenMandriva provides that.
It's rare to find a Linux distribution that's not based on Ubuntu, Debian, or Arch. That's not to say they don't exist, and OpenMandriva is independent. Mandrake the predecessor was a special take on Linux because it had one very important goal: make Linux easy to use for all, bit like what is Ubuntu's stance too.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: cooker
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-06
Votes: 33
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So far so good thus I give it a 9 out of 10.
The first thing is the out-of-the-box usability they've done for KDE.
With many other distros when I've trieed them out for use of KDE, I found them to be limiting in being able to copy files to a FAT32 "non-removable" disk all down to the fact they've locked out the root account thus disabling the ability to sudo/su for edge cases.
This makes edge-cases for us power-users very possible.
This brings back the easier theming system as I just don't have time to sit there figuring out the theming intricacies of other DEs when I may often tweak some looks.
This is great as now I can make my themes quickly and easily to mirror my femboyish attributes, which brings me onto a point:
OenMandriva has explicitly distanced themselves from politics to put as much efforts as possible into making a working product, which going by their rolling distro (so between latest and cooker distro) and their cooker distros, is getting there very quickly for a team smaller than the bigger players.
I feel very included by the distro's efforts because they've delivered whereas other distros make me feel like I'm being treated as irresponsible in the way they lock KDE down and I often find people like myself being used as a pawn in their infighting, often causing such massive reputation backlash to my community which ends up in us getting the blame for the actions of those claiming to be looking out for us.
OpenMandriva by staying clear of such politics has made a distro that will help those of us who've been used as tropes by others.
For one, I can finally use KDENLIVE!!!
This means I can ditch the unactivated copy of Windows 10 as now I can edit videos for the first time in 6 years on Linux since that was also broken by KDE being broken on other distros for several years.
Secondly, WINE seems to be working better already out of the box, I've still to experiment to get a working system to play some games like GTA 4, SR2 and a few other old classics, the rest I'm sure I can sort the Steam client app and Proton out to run.
Audacity isn't broken either, whereas it was on my Debian install. No need to set up Pulseaudio as a secondary soundsystem yet.
All the usual expected stuff is there out of the box and considering my first serious Linux distro was PCLinuxOS 2009 to get away from the impending end of XP support, I'm kinda going back to my roots by going with OpenMandriva as there's similarities genetically between the two.
P.s. It's also quite usable if someone was a Windows Power-User who doesn't mind spending the tine to move over to a more freedom respecting operating system.
For normie users, this distro maybe a bit too powerful for ya.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 3
Date: 2025-02-04
Votes: 0
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So, let me state this loud and clear right out of the way: OpenMandriva Lx Rome is not prime-time ready. And if you thought you are in for some user-friendly and polished Linux experience, then be horribly disappointed. First hour, it crashed on me four times, yes FOUR freaking kernel panics in less than an hour; that in itself should be saying something to do with stability.
But wait, there's more! The repos? Forget it. They are slow as syrup, and even when they actually load, half the stuff you try to install either fails to install or manages to break something else. Every time you run dnf update, it is like playing roulette. And, oh yeah, xdg-desktop-portal: that's totally hosed, meaning some basic functionality just plain does not work. Great.
Then, of course, there's KDE. oh boy, where to begin? Bloat city, population: you. Even the "slim" version feels overweight, packed full of features you'll never use and none of the ones you do need. Missing settings here, broken apps there. what a mess. Unless you actually like trawling through forums and editing config files just to make your system usable, you're in for a world of hurt.
And let me tell you something about usability: unless you are some sort of seasoned Linux veteran who can troubleshoot your way out of a paper bag, this distro will leave you stranded. So much is not properly configured out of the box that rookies and maybe even intermediates are in for a bad time. You'll spend more time fixing issues than actually getting things done.
If you're looking for a solid, working rolling-release distribution, then keep away from OpenMandriva Lx Rome and head to openSUSE Tumbleweed: rock solid, no drama with multiple DEs/WMs, and fast, dependable mirrors. You won't also waste hours trying to fix what shouldn't break in the first place.
In short, unless you’ve got the patience of a saint and the skills of a wizard, give OpenMandriva Lx Rome a wide berth. Your sanity will thank you.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-03
Votes: 7
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OM is peak Linux.. If you are tired of distros that feel like an ongoing project rather than a finished product, OpenMandriva . is the only one that hasn’t given me a single hiccup, & at this point I don’t see myself distro-hopping anytime soon like I'd been doing for years.
One of the biggest surprises for me has been how effortlessly it runs KDE Plasma. Every other distro I’ve tested—Fedora, Arch, Debian-based ones, you name it—has given me some kind of issue with Plasma, whether it’s crashes, weird graphical glitches, or outright refusing to function properly. But with OpenMandriva, Plasma runs buttery smooth right out of the box.
Only downside for me is that some dnf packages are disabled, & I have to build from source when installing a super obscure thing, though it's a personal case, definitely doesnt affect average daily drive.. & ofc flatpaks often come in handy then. Beyond that, OpenMandriva feels like a distro made by people who actually care about polish & quality. I felt at home right away with dnf & rpm, system updates are reliable, and there’s no unnecessary bloat; you get a clean, functional system without having to strip things down yourself. Again I reiterate, OM feels like a finished product, no tweaks, no deep dives into config files—just a rock-solid experience from the start... the closest distro to me that is comparable to proprietary software so far, without being something restrictive like immutables.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-02
Votes: 4
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Stable and Up-to-Date: OpenMandriva offers a stable and up-to-date system, with regular updates and security patches to ensure the system remains secure and functional.
Rolling Release Model: OpenMandriva follows a rolling release model, which means that once installed, the system can be updated to the latest packages and versions without the need for a full reinstallation.
Customizable: OpenMandriva provides a high degree of customization, allowing users to tailor their system to meet their specific needs and preferences.
Strong Community: OpenMandriva has an active and supportive community, with forums, documentation, and other resources available to help users troubleshoot issues and learn more about the distribution.
Packaging and Repositories: OpenMandriva uses the RPM package manager and has its own repositories, which are well-maintained and offer a wide range of software packages.
Hardware Support: OpenMandriva has good hardware support, including support for a wide range of graphics cards, sound cards, and other peripherals.
Security: OpenMandriva takes security seriously, with features such as firewall configuration, SELinux support, and regular security updates to help protect the system from threats.
User-Friendly: OpenMandriva is designed to be user-friendly, with a simple and intuitive installation process and a range of tools and applications to help users get started with their Linux journey.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-01
Votes: 1
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No fluff, just solid computing. The best distro I've used in years. In five months of daily usage I've yet to encounter a single problem. Highly underrated project.
It's extremely stable for a rolling distro, about at the same stability level as Tumbleweed, in my opinion. No problems with all my hardware either, I've been able to setup my HP printer and my wifi dongle in minutes. Very helpful community and great and well structured documentation wiki (nothing like the Arch wiki, to be clear, but very complete and clear).
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-29
Votes: 2
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I was hesitating to try this independent Linux distro. Did so in the past but always had issues (printer, second screen, 3d acceleration not available, thus poor performance in software like Blender).
Not so with OpenMandriva.
Pretty much everything aside from Nvidia card 3D acceleration worked right away. For that, some tinkering and reading their forums (search for Open Source Nvidia driver, use the "Rome" branch of OpenMandriva) was required, but that's just how Linux can be at times. Glad I'm not depending on Debian/Ubuntu based Distros anymore.
If any of the devs is reading this: good job, you've got yourself a new user.
Suggestions: Less blue design elements (most standard apps use blue icons, hard to distinguish). I've installed custom icons as a workaround. Also consider a diffent default image viewer that allows page switching with left and right key
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 5
Date: 2025-01-27
Votes: 1
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I was really excited for testing OpenMandriva since I was an user of Mandrake Linux from the good old days, I still remember Mandrake 9.0 and my first "Firewall distro" MNF if I remember correctly. Well, let's try OpenMandriva but for me the hardest part was to actually download the ISO and I spend 30 minutes trying to find some verification files in openmandriva.org but nothing came up...then after googling I found sha1 and md5, but for realease 24.07 not 24.12...and what about PGP signatures? I mean, it is a common practice to verify your downloaded ISO, or isn't? OK, I could not find anything but I download it anyway and then I noticed it does not run well with Ventoy...OK...let's try a new USB drive this time with Balena Etcher and just for OpenMadriva ISO, and well it is just fine, even with my NVIDIA Card but, nothing to call hom,e to be honest. I mean it looks good, it is quick, even with a 2013 laptop the QT version is nice, but definitely they need to work on their site and provide verification files and for the moment is a nice "LiveCD" distro to me.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: cooker
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-26
Votes: 3
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The Best distro I have used in years, no fluff just solid computing which is not the case in 2025 with most other distros! I like the extra tools that Open Mandriva add to make setting up the OS as comfortable as possible. From the Web Browser options to the package management system everything is totally rock solid even on the experimental branch which I am using! I have bounced around from Solus, Mint, Fedora, Arch and the usual popular distros but Open Mandriva is breath of fresh air in a very stale and bland time for the Linux/BSD world!
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: cooker
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 1
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This is by far the most interesting distribution I've seen in a long time: It's developed independently and their spins range from super user friendly Plasma 6 for newbies to minimalistic CLI only server image a newbie won't be able to do much with.
I'm running the Plasma 6 spin on my desktop and the CLI only version on my server. Both are working great and optimized for the purpose.
While I was initially just interested in trying out something new in a VM, I ended up switching my main OS and I won't be going back to Ubuntu.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 1
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Very stable distro. Have tried all of their flavors. I started with Rock them went to Rome and Cooker finally settling in Rome. There is a big with Sddm and Nvidia cards but can be fixed with the install of lightdm and disabling the compositor.
Overall very nice distro and a great community that will help solve any problems that seem to come up.
I have been using Linux for the better part of 20 years and find this stable as a rolling release can be. Documentation is clear and if you cannot find a problem the forums are a great place to find it with answers coming quick and fixes being implemented when a big is found
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 4
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Been using OpenMandrive for a week now, and really like how well it performs on my Lenovo X1 Carbon. Without any adjustments, the battery life is so much better than what I was getting with running plain Ubuntu on the same laptop.
The welcome screen has been well organized with tabs for information, settings, and applications recommendations to get you up and running quickly and easily. I use my laptop for work, and I was able to easily get everything I needed installed and configured quickly with OpenMandriva. Everything has been fast, stable and easy to use. My 4 year old laptop feels like OpenMandriva was made for it.
The only minor issue I need to figure out is when I disconnect from using the Cisco Secure Client VPN, I sometimes have to restart my network manager to get the Internet working again. I didn't have that issue with Ubuntu, but it's not a deal breaker and I'm sure I'll figure out how to resolve this, but I like OpenMandriva and will be keeping this as my daily driver.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 1
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I came to OpenMandriva as a complete newbie to Linux and am really surprised at how easy it was to set everything up. It wasnt a basic computer either. Ive got several hard drives, 2 monitors, 2 audio devices, 2 mice a great Nvidia card and a printer and it recognized all of it without having to go hunt for solutions.I only had to use command line once to install Brave. It couldn't have been much easier to get everything up and running.
I dont have any experience in other Linux distros to compare against but this has been so easy I dont really have a reason to try anything else.
I might not have to go back to Windows ever again.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 3
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OpenMandriva Rock 5.0 has been the most stable distro I have used in 12 years of using Linux. I really like that they are not mandated into releasing on a set schedule and instead only release when it is ready. I appreciate this attention to detail and the desire to truly make a desktop distro that cares about being stable and functional. My favorite thing is the OpenMandriva allows you to configure hibernation through the installer. I have not seen any other Linux distro do this.
I feel like this distro will de around for the long haul, and I want to support it.
Tired of jumping distros and looking for one that you can just rely on? Give OpenMandriva a try. You wont regret it.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-21
Votes: 2
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Trying out OM Rome as my daily driver. I particularly like that they aren't beholden to upstream bureaucracy. I am a perpetual noob, not a gamer and definitely not a power user. I had to learn about dnf packages and actually put some effort into configuring my Brother printer (also thanks to Brother for the driver installation tool).
Older hardware but it's working well.
My favorite desktop is xfce but kde works well so far. I'll have to try installing xfce and see how that goes.
Not sure how extensive or active the community is but there seems to be a substantial increase in interest in the distro, which is good news as far as I'm concerned.
Also using MX Linux and Endeavour OS
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 5
Date: 2025-01-16
Votes: 0
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I tested the ROME Plasma6x11 x86_64 operating system, but the overall experience was not satisfactory.
First, the installation was problematic. It didn’t work with Ventoy, and I had to use ImageWriter instead.
Secondly, after installing the NVIDIA driver (via the suggested icon on the welcome screen for hardware setup), I encountered frequent random black screens, which made the system unstable.
Additionally, the boot speed was average—nothing particularly fast or impressive.
Beyond these issues, I didn’t find anything particularly noteworthy or special about the system.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-10
Votes: 1
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The hardest part is downloading the ISO, because most browsers are blocking it as an insecure download. Once you get past that part, it is a great distro.
It is not based on any other distro. It is its own thing. It uses DNF to handle the RPMs. I am running Rome/Wayland/Plasma 6 on an AMD system and it is flawless.
The only problem I see is they need more maintainers to help get packages into their repositories.
I have been running Tumbleweed for years and I am switching to OpenMandriva Rome as my daily driver. It is a great distribution and it deserves to be much more popular.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-09
Votes: 1
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I use OMLx ROME (KDE/Wayland) on my primary ThinkPad as my daily driver for some time now. There is really not much negative to say. It is very stable, fast and gives you a lot of options regarding additional software repositories.
Pros:
- Extremelly stable for a rolling distro, about at the same stability level as Void.
- Big selection of additional software repositories (extra, non-free, Chrome, Brave, VS Code and so on).
- An excellent, helpful and cool community, On the OM forum, you get a helpful response in 20 minutes max., usually even much faster.
- The people behind OM are very neutral and technology-oriented. Not even a slight trace of some political or ideological nonsense.
- Great and well structured documentation wiki.
- Official COSMIC spin.
Cons:
- For installer to install boot loader on the older ThinkPads (like T420) correctly, you must know to disable legacy boot mode in BIOS. Otherwise it may not install boot loader correctly (at least in my case).
- No official Hyprland spin.
Those are the only cons I can think of. Nothing else comes to mind, honestly. Everything just works as expected, and works really well.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-01-08
Votes: 0
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Tried the LXQt live disc (of the Rock version, which is supposed to be the more stable version). Opened the code editor program, opened the Preferences menu and then Appearances.
Tried to open the Theme drop-down; for a second or two, nothing happened, then the editor crashed.
I re-opened it, then tried the Theme drop-down again. This time a list of themes appeared, but before I could
read all their names, the editor crashed again.
Will wait for the next major version, because this one seems a buggy mess.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.12
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-01-07
Votes: 4
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I love this distro, would get a perfect score if they had better support for NVIDIA out of the box. They need to look at what Nobara / Endeavor / Manjaro are doing in this regard and implement a similar system. As it stands now, to get the most out of my card, I would have to do quite a lot of legwork myself on OM.
But there is a lot to love here if you have hardware that doesn't require proprietary software like NVIDIA. They aren't out to please the appeasers. The OM group isn't going to cancel you for speaking against the rainbow mafia
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-05
Votes: 48
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ROME is a good alternative to Manjaro, it's stable and very up-to-date, and it's made by a totally independent team. I just wonder why this distro isn't better known, it really deserves to be looked at.
Pro:
-credible mandriva successor
-ROME is a very up to date rolling release
-Fast and reactive OS
-Good KDE integration
Con:
-Uses DNF (I could imagine urpmi or the team developing or modifying another package manager)
-Lack of popularity
-Small team
-The installer (calamares) have some problems
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-04
Votes: 16
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This distribution is very much underrated.
The distro runs fast;
Good selection of the default pre-installed applications; others can be installed from repositories "Main" and the so-called "Unsupported". The latter must be expressly enabled.
Documentation is the strict necessary at the wiki. In the forum there is more and it's more user-friendly. The most required FAQs are covered and the people there are pretty good responsive;
The default desktop environment KDE Plasma is well maintained and up to date.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 24.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-29
Votes: 8
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It is a Linux distribution with the best software technologies in the world. Its unique Control Panel is the best among Linux distributions.
It is free, does not charge a fee. It has desktop options suitable for every hardware.
Downloads with desktop options;
Kde version
Gnome version
Lxqt version
It used the most advanced software technology among Linux distributions even when it first came out, Thanks to the Control Panel, which is the best, everything is intuitive and very easy to use.
All configurations can be made very easily with the Control Panel.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-09
Votes: 18
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Absolutely a blast to run, the Calamares installer was error free, and rebooted into my login.Very nice themes and icons, one of the first items I like at, but easily changed to my liking. Default applications were a little much, but can be uninstalled if I like. A beginner should enjoy the ease of this distro while a more seasoned Linux user would feel right at home.
This distribution can be used as a stable, robust distribution for full desktop and constructive work. I now use it for graphic art, in which I manufacture decals.
Found no issues at all, zero. I think, a person who isn't accustomed to Openmandriva should catch on quite easily how to use it without being frustrated. Don't blame the distro, but the user, I would say.
I had this set up and ready as my daily driver, one of the best distros out there to use.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 4.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-14
Votes: 14
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Mandrake was one of the very first distro's that permanently resided on my hard disk, way back in 2001. Alas, as Windows was a necessity for work, the linux distros went to the archives. But here we are again. Been using OpenMandriva 4.3 Lx since August 2022 and I am so very pleased with it!
The Calamares installer put it on my disk effortless, the welcome screen guides you through the rest of the install. It runs flawlessly on the Asus x75c, 4 giga ddr and i3 processor 2.5 Ghz. Yes, things are done that bit differently (certainly when you come out of a debian environment). But everything is there. Updates are very good, and stuff is picked of the Rock repositories.
One drawback is the very long boot process, but I am blaming the old Asus for that. No bluetooth on the asus, so I cannot comment on that. Replaced the Falkon with Firefox, but for the rest there is a good basic selection of tools and apps to get things done.
For those that resent it, yes...it is systemd.
For me the Plasma desktop dark theme integration with the Kwin manager and Breeze Dark iconset is one of the most beautiful I have used up till now.
Definate keeper!
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.08
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-12-01
Votes: 0
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I am not sure why you would choose this.
I downloaded and tried this. Some neat tweaks and utilities were found to handle certain aspects and appearance, but really, if the distro doesn't support DEB or RPM packages today then that seems to really limit what I can do easily. There is no plethora of documentation out there to be able to use this as a daily workstation or server use, and the repositories are limited.
For fun, I thought I would try to install Apache webserver. Once I figured out dnf I then had to Google for information which all I came up with is a couple of sites with information from 2011. And it still did not work. This just doesn't seem to be a distro I could use daily. I did find support for AppImage, but that's not gonna cut it. Why use a distro that is a challenge to set up and use the way you need?
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-12-01
Votes: 11
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I've been using OpenMandriva and find it quite useful whether as a live or installed medium, howevr as with any system crushes do happen, I find it sad that Openmandriva 5.0 COMPARED TO OTHERS LIKE oPENmANDRIVA 4.3, doesn't come packed with apps like Vlc, Smplayer chromium or some other apps we used to get off the basic distro, however, I can't complain much but appreciate that the this distro has improved a lot and will continue using it as my favourite distro, I've tried other distros like OpenSuse, Kali, Ubuntu, Fedora,etc, yet this OpenMandriva is my personal favourite.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-11-27
Votes: 6
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The OpenMandriva system as such is excellent, all the hardware works for me, the installation went without errors, the system works quickly. The only thing that bothers me is the absence of many applications and packages that I'm used to from other distributions (Linux Mint, Fedora), but it's not a problem, just a sigh. I would definitely find alternatives to the missing apps. Otherwise, I must say that the developers of the OpenMandriva system are doing an excellent job, which the users of this system will fully appreciate.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.08
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-09-14
Votes: 0
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I can not recommend this distribution. Everything is broken. System update is broken: Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rolling-x86_64-unsupported. Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rolling-x86_64-restricted. Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rolling-x86_64-non-free. DnfDrake is broken : This application has raised an unexpected error and must abort. [29] Invalid object. FLOADLISTE.Timer1_Timer.86. The Matrix bridge is broken. Never seen that before in any other distribution I used.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-11
Votes: 20
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I couldn't agree more with one of the previous reviewers: OpenMandriva is a hidden gem (easily the best distribution I've ever tried, and I've tried many) hidden under just about the worst possible promotion (or lack thereof).
Maybe the OpenMandriva guys are intentionally trying to be the opposite of Apple (perfect marketing with products just barely meeting MVP demands), but that doesn't work.
Now to be fair, OpenMandriva is a pure Open Source project that doesn't have any big name sponsoring behind it, so we can't expect their PR to be on par with, say, Ubuntu. Maybe by the nature of the work, it seems to be a lot easier to get excellent developers to work for free than to get good marketeers to work for free.
But back to the OS: It combines ease of use (I think I could give this to my grandma) with sane underlying technologies (I think I could give this to Linus Torvalds himself as well) and a current software stack - where from any other distribution I've tried you get only 2 out of 3, in particular ease of use and a sane core system tend to be mutually exclusive.
It also dares to diverge from what everyone else is doing where it makes sense (such as building the entire system with clang).
Documentation could be better, but to make up for it, the community on the Matrix channel is extremely helpful and often manages to fix problems the same day they're reported.
If anyone with marketing skills is reading this review, why not help them out? It would be great to have an OpenMandriva level product with Mint level publicity!
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.08
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-09-06
Votes: 0
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Hello
A BIG disappointment. Users of an Nvidia graphics card, this message is for you. From the live, there is no option during the installation process which allows you to select the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver. The nouveau driver will be used and depending on the model of your graphics card after the reboot you could have the unpleasant experience of a desktop freeze taking the whole system with it. Only an hard reset will be possible with the possibility of a corrupted file system. Bravo !
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-31
Votes: 2
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Very cool and interesting distribution. Clang and zen/lto optimizations is something other systems don't offer and that's what sets this system apart. I'm glad there's finally a gnome and lxqt release, just a pity there's no xfce ISO. It's also worth adding a minimal ISO as example with i3 or sway or IceWM or something similar. A large number of packages and quite up to date. I don't know if I'll stick with this system yet, but it looks interesting so far.
The downside here is the lack of good organization of the forum. Weak wiki, and the website itself is not encouraging. The page is sad, grey, it looks as if it is colorless. News about the system is hidden and should be promoted immediately after entering. You never know when a new entry will appear - browsing it on a mobile device is even worse. Announcements, news are also not very transparent, they look like gibberish, without sense. The sentences blend together. It's something they need to work on. You need to change the page, look better. Make the news visible, and make their content visually appealing and finally tell what the actual news is. I don't want to read the news about the new release, which is a copy paste from the previous release, in which only the numbers of the updated software have been replaced. People, that's not how you attract people to you. See the news on other distributions and learn from them because you have a good system, but you can't promote it.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.03
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-28
Votes: 4
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I've been using Ubuntu for a long time, but wanted to see Plasma 6. Since I'm admittedly too lazy to build it myself, when I saw OpenMandriva's preview release, I decided to give that a try.
Despite the fact that I know Plasma 6 stable won't be released for a few more months, this is a great experience - I didn't find any serious problems, and even non-KDE applications like LibreOffice and Chromium work well and with a Plasma feel to them.
Despite Google's decision to dump Jpeg XL for political reasons, OpenMandriva patched it back into Chromium, giving me the Jpeg XL support I want in my browser out of the box.
I don't know if it's because of Plasma 6 or because of the OpenMandriva core under it, but the whole system seems faster than my previous Ubuntu install.
I don't think I'll be going back to Ubuntu. But if Plasma 6 destabilizes before it stabilizes for good, I may try OpenMandriva's Plasma 5 version.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.03
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-12
Votes: 6
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This distro is very sadly under rated. I have been an Arch Linux user for the past 5 years and the only other distro that I have ever switched to is Debian, until now. OpenMandriva is now my main operating system it is very agile and everything that I have thrown at it works. I gave it only a 9 rating because in the etc file system the printing functions should be activated and not left to the user to do so, because not all users would know how to do this especially new users to Linux. Also, using both RPM and DNF as installers really coners all posiible applications install posibilities. I was using Mandrake way pack in 1997 and helped wrote scripts for dependencies and after Mandrake and then when Mandriva took over I sighed with relief that it was still being worked on at that time, but when they gave up and some of the coders deceided to keep it alive at that point I switched between Arch and Debian and sadly totally forgot about Mandriva until now. Welcome back Mandriva I really did miss you.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.03
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-07
Votes: 8
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I to use Mandriva back in the old days but after trying their non-rolling version I decided to try the rolling version and its a great experience. Uses Calamares to install which went pretty quickly and you have a decent amount of apps at first boot. Falkon and Chromium are the two browsers, with LibreOffice already installed. It uses its own system update manager thru Konsole and Discover simplu doesnt work to update the system. Discover though is the source for Flatpaks and DNFDragora is the package manager and it works very well. The welcome control center is handy especially for new users who arent as experienced . Codecs are installed by default so no multimedia issues. Hardware detection is good as my wifi was seen but the printer was a no go. System config printer is installed so I checked and installed the Canon printer driver and it was seen and installed.
The speed of the system is noticeably faster than some other distros I use and memory usage was very reasonable. The overall appearance of OM is amazing, one of the more beautiful distros Ive seen with even more choices available. KDE 5.27.5 and the 6.3.5 kernel are installed which didnt cause any issues with my Dell Optiplex 7010 sff nor my Lenovo Thinkcentre m900 tiny.
There were a few issues though, such as Discover not being able to update the system, more than likely by design. Then I noticed when adding or removing favorites in the menu, the changes dot happen immediately. You end up having to logout then login and then it works. Its a bug they apparently are aware of but haven't fixed yet. Overall the user experience is excellent. The iso isa 2.6gb which isnt too bad and you can also try other DE's. The forums are petty responsive which I appreciated after some bad experiences with other forums.
I liked this distro enough to switch over to it as a long term OS and see how it does but its a nice change of pace from all the Debian, Ubuntu and Arch clones. Give it a try and I think youll find it a great experience.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.03
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-04-07
Votes: 9
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First I have to say I did not have any issues installing the distro. I have read that some had blank screens and crashes I did not. There were some small isssues that I had to resolve myself like printing and Latte not all apps icons stayed put. Getting past these small issues Open Mandriva Lx is very fast and it is very stable. I have been an Arch Linux user for more then 5 years but right now Open Mandrive Lx is my main driver and I am very happy using it. It also uses less ram for some strange reason then Arch and handles my Nvidia driver without any issues. It also intergrates with Flatpak seamlessly much better then Arch Linux as an example. I can not compare this with other distros such as Debian or Ubuntu since I do not use those other distros but Arch I will say that it can and does do some things better then Arch Like Flatpak and Nvidia drivers intergartion as n example. I gave it a 8 rating only because of those small issues and to be honest I have never given any distro a 10 not even Arch Linux.
Hope this has been helpful.
Cheers
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-08
Votes: 8
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I had to choose the version as 23.01, but the latest version of Rome is 23.03.
I have been using Openmandriva since it was born, after having used Mandriva and Mandrake for a long time.
Over the past 3 years it has become my main distro.
I am very satisfied with Openmandriva: it is fast, stable and complete. No problems with installation, customization and daily use.
The rolling release has all the software up to date, but very rarely do I suffer from blockages of the programs or of the entire system.
Forum support is very good, both in English and Italian, problems are quickly addressed and resolved by the support team. There is certainly a lot still to be done, but I would recommend the distro to average Linux users.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-30
Votes: 20
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Unlike the reviewer in DW Weekly, I can't find any instability in this rolling release. It works flawlessly. No crashes during installation, no X11 crashes, no Plasma crashes even with full graphical effects.
It includes everything a normal user will need, and it's all working and the components go well together. No weirdness of different applications using different button order ("Yes|No" vs. "No|Yes") that plagues some other distros.
If you're looking for something that "just works", give OpenMandriva a try!
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-27
Votes: 4
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I have been wandering from countless distro to distro, to find a perfect distro. Ubuntu family is always my place to go home, because everything just works without hassle.
I was curious about OpenMandriva znver architecture, bacuse I have a ryzen laptop. So I gave it a try and suprisingly, it works very well on my laptop. Everything works by default, don't need to install anything. Also, it runs fast and responsive.
For a while I will dig deeper to this beautiful distro. Maybe would be my future destination to stay.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-17
Votes: 3
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As a distro hopper this version impressed with speed(boot up) install, and aesthetically pleasing overall build. Been using about 3+ weeks and all my favorite packages were available and installed and ran perfectly. Still stable after several updates. Installed on high performance nvme in genuine USB 3.2 Ver 2 enclosure with near max performance. Faster that many of my computers. I recommend you check it out. Its a keeper! My small lenovo quad core atom laptop has had manjaro running for over 4 years faultlessly. The Rome 23.01 is the only other distro I will consider. Strictly a KDE person.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 8
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Typing this from Open Mandriva Rolling release. This distro deserves top spot, I did have one freeze during installation but a reboot and fresh install sorted that out. Please dont expect everything to be perfect (its a rolling release) and you get the freshest packages to date including kernel.
For an rpm distro this blows fedora out of the water and is miles quicker. The new control centre is spot on and a nice feature to have. The desktop by default is the best themed kde desktop out of the box and there is no need to change anything.
The Team have done an excellent job putting this together and having a Mandriva based rolling distro is by far the best way to go as I dont like to keep installing a new system every 6 to 10 months.
I suggest to anyone looking at this distro to just install it. Should the install freeze just reboot and start again, it will work then but dont let the computer screen go off into standby as this is what froze my first install attempt.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-13
Votes: 6
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Astonished, Having used Fedora for years, I literally jumped on a whim to OpenMandriva LX (Rome), why, just for a laugh really. I testing out a new Micro-SD card in a fancy adapter and used an OpenMandriva live image for that purpose. It was an independent release, not based on anything, its why I chose it, which is why I was using Fedora in the first place, I just went with the base KDE set up as I did not expect to be still using it after I had tested the Micro-SD card's speed, etc.
I was astonished at its speed on the SD card, I formatted my fedora 37 (Gnome) SSD and installed OpenMandriva LX (Rome).
Installation was a breeze and very quick, booting up is fast, in fact everything about OpenMandriva LX is a massif performance boost over my old OS. The Desktop is light years away from Gnome and for the better. I have everything I want or need downloaded and installed without any problems, I use several VPNs and love the way the internet connection when establishing also establishes my preferred VPN at the same time, small thing I know but efficient all the same. Still finding my feet with KDE, but I think Gnome has had its day with me as has Fedora. I'm converted.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-01-13
Votes: 0
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There were issues trying to get sshd enabled. It would start on demand, but not enable for automatic system load. Also, network issues happened when changed from DHCP to Fixed IP Address.
It is a nice looking distro. The KDE implementation is very nice. I really like that they have put together a rolling release. However, it is just not quite there yet.
The default programs are pretty good. However, Falkon as the default browser could be better. Firefox is not installed by default. It is easy enough to install; just a bit peculiar.
Package Management system is very nice and works well. I appreciate the different repositories. That was a nice touch.
The installation was flawless. Everything worked and was very easy.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-09
Votes: 0
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Would love to leave a great review about how wonderful and stable OM is, however after several attempts to install it and having the installer crash it becomes impossible to do. If they seem to have issues with their calamares installer then it brings into question the stability of the system overall.
If a person is fairly confident in their terminal and want a rolling release model, then Void may be a better option. I will return to Void. It was my thought that using something that has been around as long as OM that they should have everything down solid. For some reason it just isn't there.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 23.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-07
Votes: 3
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I was skeptical but I tried the ROME - rolling release version and this will probably be my new default system. It works flawlessly and is fast - I think it works more efficiently than Opensuse Tumbleweed.
Fresh packages list reminds me Arch but this OpenMandriva is a way more stable than Arch.
Really nice distro. Worth to try if you looking for new packages updates, really well optimized and three package managers to choose: default one dnf, upcoming beta dnf5 also well known from suse - zypper.
I can recommend this release.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 4.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-10
Votes: 4
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Personally, I'm only interested in five criteria in an operating system: fast and foolproof installation, simple operation, as few updates as possible, acceptable security level, stability. That is the case with OM. The Calamares installer is famous for its simplicity, everything is fast. In the so-called rock branch, practically nothing is updated unless it has to be (I like that); the packages are up-to-date enough. Every 12 months a new version is released and then I invest 10 minutes to wipe the SSD and to reorganize the system. With flatpaks I keep my browsers or office software up to date or also use the Chrome or Edge browser as rpm package. Everything is very stable, as are Debian, Opensuse and Ubuntu LTS but OM being somehow more streamlined and simple at the same time.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 4.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-10-12
Votes: 3
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After many years and many Linux distros, I must say how brilliant OpenMandriva is! It's been around for a while so why is something so good not getting more attention? The stable Rock version works well on a 14 year old laptop. What you get is a professional distro that's well featured out of the box, simple to use with Fedora style dnf commands, and quick enough on the old hardware. Speeds when updating and installing software via terminal is especially impressive. Also like that the Rock version has a modern kernel and only requires minimal updates.
OpenMandriva has firmly joined ranks with my favourite Debian distros if wanting a low maintenance easy stable system.
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Project: OpenMandriva Lx
Version: 5.0-candidate
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-05
Votes: 6
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Tried OpenMandriva 5.0 ROME silver candidate primarily out of curiosity, to see what happened to the very first Linux distribution I tried back in the late 1990s.
I was very positively surprised - while all the things that made Mandriva good back in its day (very easy to use, but without giving up the flexibility an advanced user wants) are still there, the things that made the user experience a bit weird back then (out of place perl-GTK configuration tools on a KDE desktop etc.) have been fixed.
It is also a lot faster. I wonder what they did to make this happen. Is it clang?
I'm straying from my original plan and not switching back to Fedora. This is better.
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