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9.0 from 1 review(s)
Version: 2026.04.15
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-22
Country: United States
Votes: 1
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As a user of a custom Fedora Kinoite image for some time, I am very impressed with RakuOS. I am running it on a laptop at the moment.
RakuOS is unique in it's approach of allowing users of Fedora's atomic spins to easily install packages with dnf (or rakuos install) -- something that Fedora atomic distros usually don't allow (instead the user has to manually keep track of their rpm-ostree overlays). That is a breath of fresh air that allows users to install packages without having to use Flatpaks, distroboxes, brew etc. (of course you can still do all that if you wish). It takes away the need for someone to develop their own custom base image using Blue Build type services. Instead you have complete freedom to decide what you want on your base system using familiar package managers, with the benefits of image rollback and automatic package updates.
RakuOS comes with a nicely designed RakuOS Software application that allows you to set what base image you want ("main", more up to date "staging", and very nicely for those of us that like to be on the bleeding edge -- a rawhide version). The RakuOS update checker can be set for different frequencies and includes overlay packages, Flatpak updates and Appimage update. In addition the usual package search and install is provided by the GUI.
There is also a nice RakuOS Welcome app that will set up Gaming, Virtualization and AI (with Ollama).
I like that the developer allows users to shape their system. The flagship desktop is the KDE. Gnome and Cosmic are also offered. Cosmic is listed as "Beta", but it's what I've been using and works flawlessly. The one decision the developer has made for users is using the CachyOS kernel instead of the Fedora Kernel. For the NVIDIA version, this requires a DKMS build of the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. This is something gamers will probably appreciate and the CachyOS kernel is well regarded.
I didn't give it a 10 simply because this OS is in early development and no doubt there is some room for improvement (online documentation will undoubtedly flesh out, for example), but honestly it's a really good OS in it's current state.
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Project: RakuOS
Version: 2026.04.15
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-22
Votes: 1
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As a user of a custom Fedora Kinoite image for some time, I am very impressed with RakuOS. I am running it on a laptop at the moment.
RakuOS is unique in it's approach of allowing users of Fedora's atomic spins to easily install packages with dnf (or rakuos install) -- something that Fedora atomic distros usually don't allow (instead the user has to manually keep track of their rpm-ostree overlays). That is a breath of fresh air that allows users to install packages without having to use Flatpaks, distroboxes, brew etc. (of course you can still do all that if you wish). It takes away the need for someone to develop their own custom base image using Blue Build type services. Instead you have complete freedom to decide what you want on your base system using familiar package managers, with the benefits of image rollback and automatic package updates.
RakuOS comes with a nicely designed RakuOS Software application that allows you to set what base image you want ("main", more up to date "staging", and very nicely for those of us that like to be on the bleeding edge -- a rawhide version). The RakuOS update checker can be set for different frequencies and includes overlay packages, Flatpak updates and Appimage update. In addition the usual package search and install is provided by the GUI.
There is also a nice RakuOS Welcome app that will set up Gaming, Virtualization and AI (with Ollama).
I like that the developer allows users to shape their system. The flagship desktop is the KDE. Gnome and Cosmic are also offered. Cosmic is listed as "Beta", but it's what I've been using and works flawlessly. The one decision the developer has made for users is using the CachyOS kernel instead of the Fedora Kernel. For the NVIDIA version, this requires a DKMS build of the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. This is something gamers will probably appreciate and the CachyOS kernel is well regarded.
I didn't give it a 10 simply because this OS is in early development and no doubt there is some room for improvement (online documentation will undoubtedly flesh out, for example), but honestly it's a really good OS in it's current state.
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