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ROSA
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Reader supplied reviews for ROSA
Average rating
7.8 from 26 review(s)
Version: 12.5
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-04-26
Votes: 8
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Amazing distro, one of the best if it comes to support even exotic or less performant hardware.
To my opinion one of the most performant distros i came across. Using this distro on our main workstation for 9 years - never have been disapointed. What i didnt find before are se-harding scripts for various wanted tasks. Sometimes updates can be a little bit slow - but if you work through yandex mirrors everything should be at a reasonable speed. I only have experience with the KDE desktop because its my personal favourite desktop.
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Version: 12.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-04-20
Votes: 0
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Rosa is just a terrible Linux distribution that assures you of trouble-free operation, but actually creates a lot of problems. During installation, you will encounter a lot of errors that will make you wish you never got your hands on this distro.
And when you finally do go into battle with your tasks, you're constantly faced with crashes, unexpected shutdowns, and other annoyances.
Even simple operations that should be easy become a real struggle because of Rosa's instability.
From changing settings to installing programs, everything you do on Rosa is riddled with stress and frustration.
Don't waste your time and try this distro if you like your computer running at full capacity without any interruptions.
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Version: 12.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-09
Votes: 6
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This distro have all I need. No errors, easy to enable the video card, ready for steam proton, printer, etc.
KDE, Gnome, Xfce e LXQt
Give it a try.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-02
Votes: 12
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ROSA Desktop Fresh 12.4 review
- great stability
- fast performance in web browsers
- easy to install new or old Nvidia drivers
- RMP, snapd and Flatpak support for excellent compatibility
- one of the best LXQt implementations
- beautiful and productive desktop experience
- excellent security
- dnfdragora is fast, reliable and convenient
- very user-friendly Linux distro
- large collection of applications in the default repo
- the preinstalled packages are decent
(I only replaced qpdfview with Okular, Trojita with Kmail)
This operating system doesn't really have a major flaw.
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Version: 12
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-11-29
Votes: 0
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my wifi doesn't work, it is the firsth linux distro in 8 years on my laptop in which I have problems with wifi.
I had to use ethernet, which is unconvenient.
Also the distro feels outdated, the tools are pretty old, other mandriva based distros moved to dnf,
and are easier to use and much more innovative, while this distro feels like it is the year 2005 again.
Also i had problems with codecs in this distro, sound was weird and videos were not looking good.
And the connection to software repo was slow, felt like ADSL and 2000s again.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-03
Votes: 14
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I started using ROSA Linux and i thought - "oh, it wont be good, it's russian domestic distro...."
But... Its completely different story. Its good, fast, and not just fast, its VERY fast. Compared to openSUSE and Fedora, its just like i bought a new fast car after my old cheap car.
Although ROSA website is translated to english through google translate, their distro is fully usable with english and fully translated.
Installer is easy to use, it took 5 minutes to install.
Yandex Browser is installed from the box, but its easy to delete:
1. Open terminal
2. Write "dnf remove yandex*"
3. Confirm - thats all.
ROSA's repository is big and i found all packages i need there.
Steam for gaming, Lutris for windows games - in repository.
GUI Package Manager - dnfdragora, i cannot say that its easy to use, but its not difficult also.
KDE, GNOME, xfce, LXQT and server version are available to download.
Probably its the best distro for newbies. And for me :)
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Version: 12
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-07-13
Votes: 32
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Tested 12.4 distro called Fresh on UEFI Intel Xeon 14 cores and etc.
Result: Very primitive looking.
Warning! Comes with preinstalled crapware-malware from Yandex corporation (without any warning), mostly their web browser and other proprietary apps. I wasn't asking for third-party bundle and don't needed that. You will spend another 15-20 minutes trying deleting that.
Outdated only Nvidia 525 driver provided.
On 4K resolution with TV as main display color temperature funtion become broken, always "warm" night mode on my setup, wasn't able to turn off in settings GUI.
No apps store. Using only it's proprietary "packet installer" for everything from their server, which is very cumbersome and hard for novices.
Only 4 from 10, usable exacly on that scale, mostly only through console.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-14
Votes: 0
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Tried Linux Mint. First time try of any Linux OS. Interesting change from Windows, but didn't exactly spin my wheels.
This ROSA baby is a totally different story. Fast -- and I mean fast.
Nice interface. Less chunky than Mint. Cleaner and sleeker.
Still finding my way around as a noob, but I'm already sold.
Such a relief to get away from the Windows hegemon.
No messing with these Russian guys :-)
Try ROSA Live if you want to get the feel without commitment:
Use free Balena Etcher on Windows.
Use it to flash a download of ROSA Plasma ISO file onto a USB.
Restart PC and enter BIOS, telling it to launch into USB.
Choose ROSA Live at launch time and take a look around at the new world.
[Use DiskGenius later to restore USB to normal use after you decide one way or the other re ROSA.]
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Version: 12
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-01
Votes: 1
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I just got updated ti Rosa Fresh R12.4 and its better with every update is released from ROSA team. But it will be realy great if Team or Community create something like Copr and AUR for all updated apps and programs for system... Flatpak and Snaps are works good to. I never got any crash with this system of Rosa Fresh R12 versions. Works like sharm. So some comments bellow are just garbage, with probably related to some other stuffs which I dont wanna comment at all, I think it is obvious... So get to the story. Rosa Fresh R12.4 JUST works. Only one error I got is when Plasma got updated with R12.4 version is black screen which is related to my monitor, or precisely my 4K TV form Tesla and Kscreen configuration, Kscreen took wrong resolution which I needed to fix it through config file for Kscreen... From me rating is 9 because I think there is missing something like Copr or AUR which I mentoined earlier, and to not search forum for repos to get new programs, apps and Nvidia driver and Plasma versions.
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Version: 12
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-23
Votes: 1
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I am not from Russia and I wrote here on 2022-05-18 my disappointment with the R12 version for older hardware. R12.3 is already running on my PC. I am very pleased! I switched from R11 to Mageia 8 for a few months: first impression and good start, later updates came and problems occurred. It was raw. I went back to ROSA R12.3 and I'm glad.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-25
Votes: 0
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Works perfect. On forums u can find everithyng u need for other repos to update software and drivers. It is fast, reliable, super stable even if u add those repos for update drivers and other software like Plasma repos, Xanmod kernel installs like sharm. And I think minus is that u need to search on forum for those repos, maybe devs to consider adding all of that in official release or create something like AUR on Arch or Copr for Fedora. For me Rosa Fresh works better than Fedora. When u install it it just boot without any problems. And installing Nvidia drivers are smooth like click and install on Windows.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-19
Votes: 2
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Rosa is very stable, fast, easy to use and looks great. I’d say this is the best successor to Mandriva, it has the same tools and configuration, so it’ll be easier to use and get used to. There is a lot of software in the repositories and even more you can get from other repositories that can be added in.
When installing updates, they install fine. I haven’t had any had crashes or lock-ups while using this distro. I’d recommend this if you want to try a distro not based on the usual ones like debian, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, etc.
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Version: 12
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-05-18
Votes: 248
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I'm not from Russia. Great satisfaction with the R11. Despite the language switch in the system at the beginning. After instalation. Today, R11 is obsolete. For a week, I struggle in vain to test the new version of R12: I can't boot the system for installation or testing. Competitive OpenSUSE, Mageia 8, KDE Neon, Manjaro (as an example) no problem on my older hardware! I rate it for R12 as a significant change for the worse. Are the authors running out of strength and motivation?
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-13
Votes: 1
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Tried Rosa 12 looks pretty, very easy to use, has a huge community with many active members and the developers are active there too- everyone is helpful and friendly. Support for Cyrillic is what attracted me the most. I recommend Rosa to all people who write and use Cyrillic. Great job developers and thank all developers. Put a page where we can donate money. Also agree with the comment below about:
* was fast.
* was reliable.
* have smart software selection by default.
* have quite complete repositories, and up to date.
* have her own tools well integrated into Plasma settings.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-04
Votes: 32
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I’ve been using Rosa for years, and have tried other Mandriva-based distros like Mageia, which cannot compare at all. Rosa is very easy to use, has a huge community with many active members and the developers are active there too- everyone is helpful and friendly. The themes look great, everything works well and responds in a timely manner, the selection of software is not bloated and there are a lot of other applications you can install from the default repositories and easily add more repositories.
I highly recommend using Rosa, it’s worthy of being called THE Mandriva successor. It deserves to be ranked much higher.
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Version: 12
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-02-28
Votes: 0
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Assembly 12 / 12.1 / 12.2 is glued together from snot.
Minuses:
- The installation process ends with the execution of scripts - the duration of the completion is 60 minutes, due to the fact that it cannot access the Internet due to the Rosa developers. The problem is DNS.
- The assembly of programs in the repository is monstrous, they may or may not run at all. No one controls what is going there with their scripts.
- This is not a Russian OS, it is greedy masturbation that dishonors the word Russia.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-20
Votes: 5
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I'm a long time Linux user that have found a comfortable home with this distribution. The only two complaints that I have are the web site, that is really not welcoming for non Russian speaking users (not up to date in its English version), and the other is that after install, localization is well applied but not the keymap for other than "us" or "ru", must be fixed in cli or gui.
After that I've found the distribution...
* was fast.
* was reliable.
* have smart software selection by default.
* have quite complete repositories, and up to date.
* have her own tools well integrated into Plasma settings.
* have one of the better Plasma integration that I have ever seen.
* have useful home made software like ROSA Freeze, ROSA Image Writer, etc...
* have good graphical package manager for common users.
* was respectful of user's privacy by non installing and non making mandatory telemetry tools like "kuserfeedback".
So I've put my suitcases down and stay here, many thanks to ROSA team!
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-19
Votes: 0
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Excellent distribution! The website is not very welcoming for non Russians users but this distro worth it. The repositories are quite extensive. The KDE Plasma integration is one of the best I've ever seen, defaults applications are carefully choosen (exept for me the web browser, I don't like chromium, prefer firefox ) and distribution's tools are well integrated into Plasma settings. Really pleasant to use!
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Version: 12
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-02-14
Votes: 20
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The only distributor that does not understand the changed DNS registered in the router to the symbolic "beeline". ISP router. The very end of the installation takes an infinitely long time due to the implementation curve of DNS lookup developers. Three updates have already been released in the ROSA Fresh 12 line, ROSA Fresh 12.1, ROSA Fresh 12.2, they promised to fix it in the first release, but the crooked implementation continues in the third release. Developers do not know how to do anything except copy other people's developments and rename lines in the code. Although they no longer have such developers.
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Version: 12
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-12-06
Votes: 22
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ROSA linux is an easy-to-use system for the whole family. The system runs fast and is well tuned.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-24
Votes: 48
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In my opinion, Rosa is THE successor to Mandriva. I’ve tried Mageia and OpenMandriva and they didn’t work well for me whereas Rosa has the tried and true Mandriva tools, better stability, is speedier, looks better, has a lot more customization and better ease of use. There are also more repositories to add even more customization and other programs. NVIDIA drivers work right out of the box too! I haven’t had any problems when using Rosa. I recommend it.
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Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-31
Votes: 32
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Xeon 16 gig NVME If you are looking for something conservative and more consistently stable and reliable than anything else out there, Rosa is your game. It rivals historic Debian for being slow to update and does so only when everything has been tested and retested to not cause a problem. In spite of that it does have a lot of core system programs quite up to date and the browsers are up to date. I have always been a fan of KDE-4 and to me nothing else rivals it's clean elegance. Amazingly, core KDE-4 system files were regularly updated even though KDE supposedly stopped supporting it years ago. I'm sad to see it and 32 bit dropped in Version 12 but understand. The Mandriva GUI tools make this a great distro for new Linux users. I can't think of a single time I had to go to the command line to do anything. Rosa is truly an install and forget about it distro! The user is not overwhelmed by constant huge updates which makes this a good distro for those with poor or slow internet access. For version 12 I was glad to see that the traditional Rosa theme for the taskbar and the Gnome style "Simple" launcher were not applied by default. But, this is Linux so there are choices to suite everyone. I have always found Rosa fast and responsive to use. Boot up is fast too. If you look at the average user rating, 9.06 that puts it into 4th or 5th most highly rated distro out there! You don't get there by careless rushed work! I have no plans to replace this Rosa 11 KDE-4 installation with anything else.
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Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-23
Votes: 27
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This is a great Mandriva-based distro, it works a lot better for me than Mageia has- that has been slow to respond for applications to open and wasn’t as intuitive compared to Rosa. Rosa is easy to use and configure, I was able to easily install NVIDIA graphics drivers too. It also has the tools from Mandriva, compared to other Mandriva-based distros that don’t, so it’s less of a learning curve using Rosa.
Overall, Rosa has been working great for me.
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Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-22
Votes: 24
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My choice for linux is Rosa. Easy to use with urpmi, and averything I need avaliable for default or on repository. This include nvidia drivers too!
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Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-12
Votes: 21
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Everything works great in the Plasma edition. Update a little slow, but It's just works. Installed on ASRock Q1900M, 16Gigs ram, 250 SDD drive.
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Version: R10
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-01-15
Votes: 0
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Wouldn't even boot on my machine, an Inspiron box with around twelve gigs of ram (don't know the CPU, but I know it's a core i7). The progress bar on the Plymouth screen wouldn't budge, so I switched to the SystemD boot screen and saw that it wouldn't get past "[O.K.] basic system". Won't give it that bad of a rating though I haven't even tried it, but failures like this are unacceptable. 5/10.
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Latest Reviews
Project: ROSA
Version: 12.5
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-04-26
Votes: 8
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Amazing distro, one of the best if it comes to support even exotic or less performant hardware.
To my opinion one of the most performant distros i came across. Using this distro on our main workstation for 9 years - never have been disapointed. What i didnt find before are se-harding scripts for various wanted tasks. Sometimes updates can be a little bit slow - but if you work through yandex mirrors everything should be at a reasonable speed. I only have experience with the KDE desktop because its my personal favourite desktop.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-04-20
Votes: 0
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Rosa is just a terrible Linux distribution that assures you of trouble-free operation, but actually creates a lot of problems. During installation, you will encounter a lot of errors that will make you wish you never got your hands on this distro.
And when you finally do go into battle with your tasks, you're constantly faced with crashes, unexpected shutdowns, and other annoyances.
Even simple operations that should be easy become a real struggle because of Rosa's instability.
From changing settings to installing programs, everything you do on Rosa is riddled with stress and frustration.
Don't waste your time and try this distro if you like your computer running at full capacity without any interruptions.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-09
Votes: 6
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This distro have all I need. No errors, easy to enable the video card, ready for steam proton, printer, etc.
KDE, Gnome, Xfce e LXQt
Give it a try.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-02
Votes: 12
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ROSA Desktop Fresh 12.4 review
- great stability
- fast performance in web browsers
- easy to install new or old Nvidia drivers
- RMP, snapd and Flatpak support for excellent compatibility
- one of the best LXQt implementations
- beautiful and productive desktop experience
- excellent security
- dnfdragora is fast, reliable and convenient
- very user-friendly Linux distro
- large collection of applications in the default repo
- the preinstalled packages are decent
(I only replaced qpdfview with Okular, Trojita with Kmail)
This operating system doesn't really have a major flaw.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-11-29
Votes: 0
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my wifi doesn't work, it is the firsth linux distro in 8 years on my laptop in which I have problems with wifi.
I had to use ethernet, which is unconvenient.
Also the distro feels outdated, the tools are pretty old, other mandriva based distros moved to dnf,
and are easier to use and much more innovative, while this distro feels like it is the year 2005 again.
Also i had problems with codecs in this distro, sound was weird and videos were not looking good.
And the connection to software repo was slow, felt like ADSL and 2000s again.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-03
Votes: 14
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I started using ROSA Linux and i thought - "oh, it wont be good, it's russian domestic distro...."
But... Its completely different story. Its good, fast, and not just fast, its VERY fast. Compared to openSUSE and Fedora, its just like i bought a new fast car after my old cheap car.
Although ROSA website is translated to english through google translate, their distro is fully usable with english and fully translated.
Installer is easy to use, it took 5 minutes to install.
Yandex Browser is installed from the box, but its easy to delete:
1. Open terminal
2. Write "dnf remove yandex*"
3. Confirm - thats all.
ROSA's repository is big and i found all packages i need there.
Steam for gaming, Lutris for windows games - in repository.
GUI Package Manager - dnfdragora, i cannot say that its easy to use, but its not difficult also.
KDE, GNOME, xfce, LXQT and server version are available to download.
Probably its the best distro for newbies. And for me :)
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-07-13
Votes: 32
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Tested 12.4 distro called Fresh on UEFI Intel Xeon 14 cores and etc.
Result: Very primitive looking.
Warning! Comes with preinstalled crapware-malware from Yandex corporation (without any warning), mostly their web browser and other proprietary apps. I wasn't asking for third-party bundle and don't needed that. You will spend another 15-20 minutes trying deleting that.
Outdated only Nvidia 525 driver provided.
On 4K resolution with TV as main display color temperature funtion become broken, always "warm" night mode on my setup, wasn't able to turn off in settings GUI.
No apps store. Using only it's proprietary "packet installer" for everything from their server, which is very cumbersome and hard for novices.
Only 4 from 10, usable exacly on that scale, mostly only through console.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-14
Votes: 0
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Tried Linux Mint. First time try of any Linux OS. Interesting change from Windows, but didn't exactly spin my wheels.
This ROSA baby is a totally different story. Fast -- and I mean fast.
Nice interface. Less chunky than Mint. Cleaner and sleeker.
Still finding my way around as a noob, but I'm already sold.
Such a relief to get away from the Windows hegemon.
No messing with these Russian guys :-)
Try ROSA Live if you want to get the feel without commitment:
Use free Balena Etcher on Windows.
Use it to flash a download of ROSA Plasma ISO file onto a USB.
Restart PC and enter BIOS, telling it to launch into USB.
Choose ROSA Live at launch time and take a look around at the new world.
[Use DiskGenius later to restore USB to normal use after you decide one way or the other re ROSA.]
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-01
Votes: 1
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I just got updated ti Rosa Fresh R12.4 and its better with every update is released from ROSA team. But it will be realy great if Team or Community create something like Copr and AUR for all updated apps and programs for system... Flatpak and Snaps are works good to. I never got any crash with this system of Rosa Fresh R12 versions. Works like sharm. So some comments bellow are just garbage, with probably related to some other stuffs which I dont wanna comment at all, I think it is obvious... So get to the story. Rosa Fresh R12.4 JUST works. Only one error I got is when Plasma got updated with R12.4 version is black screen which is related to my monitor, or precisely my 4K TV form Tesla and Kscreen configuration, Kscreen took wrong resolution which I needed to fix it through config file for Kscreen... From me rating is 9 because I think there is missing something like Copr or AUR which I mentoined earlier, and to not search forum for repos to get new programs, apps and Nvidia driver and Plasma versions.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-23
Votes: 1
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I am not from Russia and I wrote here on 2022-05-18 my disappointment with the R12 version for older hardware. R12.3 is already running on my PC. I am very pleased! I switched from R11 to Mageia 8 for a few months: first impression and good start, later updates came and problems occurred. It was raw. I went back to ROSA R12.3 and I'm glad.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-25
Votes: 0
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Works perfect. On forums u can find everithyng u need for other repos to update software and drivers. It is fast, reliable, super stable even if u add those repos for update drivers and other software like Plasma repos, Xanmod kernel installs like sharm. And I think minus is that u need to search on forum for those repos, maybe devs to consider adding all of that in official release or create something like AUR on Arch or Copr for Fedora. For me Rosa Fresh works better than Fedora. When u install it it just boot without any problems. And installing Nvidia drivers are smooth like click and install on Windows.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-19
Votes: 2
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Rosa is very stable, fast, easy to use and looks great. I’d say this is the best successor to Mandriva, it has the same tools and configuration, so it’ll be easier to use and get used to. There is a lot of software in the repositories and even more you can get from other repositories that can be added in.
When installing updates, they install fine. I haven’t had any had crashes or lock-ups while using this distro. I’d recommend this if you want to try a distro not based on the usual ones like debian, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, etc.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-05-18
Votes: 248
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I'm not from Russia. Great satisfaction with the R11. Despite the language switch in the system at the beginning. After instalation. Today, R11 is obsolete. For a week, I struggle in vain to test the new version of R12: I can't boot the system for installation or testing. Competitive OpenSUSE, Mageia 8, KDE Neon, Manjaro (as an example) no problem on my older hardware! I rate it for R12 as a significant change for the worse. Are the authors running out of strength and motivation?
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-13
Votes: 1
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Tried Rosa 12 looks pretty, very easy to use, has a huge community with many active members and the developers are active there too- everyone is helpful and friendly. Support for Cyrillic is what attracted me the most. I recommend Rosa to all people who write and use Cyrillic. Great job developers and thank all developers. Put a page where we can donate money. Also agree with the comment below about:
* was fast.
* was reliable.
* have smart software selection by default.
* have quite complete repositories, and up to date.
* have her own tools well integrated into Plasma settings.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-04
Votes: 32
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I’ve been using Rosa for years, and have tried other Mandriva-based distros like Mageia, which cannot compare at all. Rosa is very easy to use, has a huge community with many active members and the developers are active there too- everyone is helpful and friendly. The themes look great, everything works well and responds in a timely manner, the selection of software is not bloated and there are a lot of other applications you can install from the default repositories and easily add more repositories.
I highly recommend using Rosa, it’s worthy of being called THE Mandriva successor. It deserves to be ranked much higher.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-02-28
Votes: 0
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Assembly 12 / 12.1 / 12.2 is glued together from snot.
Minuses:
- The installation process ends with the execution of scripts - the duration of the completion is 60 minutes, due to the fact that it cannot access the Internet due to the Rosa developers. The problem is DNS.
- The assembly of programs in the repository is monstrous, they may or may not run at all. No one controls what is going there with their scripts.
- This is not a Russian OS, it is greedy masturbation that dishonors the word Russia.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-20
Votes: 5
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I'm a long time Linux user that have found a comfortable home with this distribution. The only two complaints that I have are the web site, that is really not welcoming for non Russian speaking users (not up to date in its English version), and the other is that after install, localization is well applied but not the keymap for other than "us" or "ru", must be fixed in cli or gui.
After that I've found the distribution...
* was fast.
* was reliable.
* have smart software selection by default.
* have quite complete repositories, and up to date.
* have her own tools well integrated into Plasma settings.
* have one of the better Plasma integration that I have ever seen.
* have useful home made software like ROSA Freeze, ROSA Image Writer, etc...
* have good graphical package manager for common users.
* was respectful of user's privacy by non installing and non making mandatory telemetry tools like "kuserfeedback".
So I've put my suitcases down and stay here, many thanks to ROSA team!
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-19
Votes: 0
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Excellent distribution! The website is not very welcoming for non Russians users but this distro worth it. The repositories are quite extensive. The KDE Plasma integration is one of the best I've ever seen, defaults applications are carefully choosen (exept for me the web browser, I don't like chromium, prefer firefox ) and distribution's tools are well integrated into Plasma settings. Really pleasant to use!
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-02-14
Votes: 20
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The only distributor that does not understand the changed DNS registered in the router to the symbolic "beeline". ISP router. The very end of the installation takes an infinitely long time due to the implementation curve of DNS lookup developers. Three updates have already been released in the ROSA Fresh 12 line, ROSA Fresh 12.1, ROSA Fresh 12.2, they promised to fix it in the first release, but the crooked implementation continues in the third release. Developers do not know how to do anything except copy other people's developments and rename lines in the code. Although they no longer have such developers.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-12-06
Votes: 22
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ROSA linux is an easy-to-use system for the whole family. The system runs fast and is well tuned.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-24
Votes: 48
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In my opinion, Rosa is THE successor to Mandriva. I’ve tried Mageia and OpenMandriva and they didn’t work well for me whereas Rosa has the tried and true Mandriva tools, better stability, is speedier, looks better, has a lot more customization and better ease of use. There are also more repositories to add even more customization and other programs. NVIDIA drivers work right out of the box too! I haven’t had any problems when using Rosa. I recommend it.
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Project: ROSA
Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-31
Votes: 32
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Xeon 16 gig NVME If you are looking for something conservative and more consistently stable and reliable than anything else out there, Rosa is your game. It rivals historic Debian for being slow to update and does so only when everything has been tested and retested to not cause a problem. In spite of that it does have a lot of core system programs quite up to date and the browsers are up to date. I have always been a fan of KDE-4 and to me nothing else rivals it's clean elegance. Amazingly, core KDE-4 system files were regularly updated even though KDE supposedly stopped supporting it years ago. I'm sad to see it and 32 bit dropped in Version 12 but understand. The Mandriva GUI tools make this a great distro for new Linux users. I can't think of a single time I had to go to the command line to do anything. Rosa is truly an install and forget about it distro! The user is not overwhelmed by constant huge updates which makes this a good distro for those with poor or slow internet access. For version 12 I was glad to see that the traditional Rosa theme for the taskbar and the Gnome style "Simple" launcher were not applied by default. But, this is Linux so there are choices to suite everyone. I have always found Rosa fast and responsive to use. Boot up is fast too. If you look at the average user rating, 9.06 that puts it into 4th or 5th most highly rated distro out there! You don't get there by careless rushed work! I have no plans to replace this Rosa 11 KDE-4 installation with anything else.
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Project: ROSA
Version: 12
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-23
Votes: 27
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This is a great Mandriva-based distro, it works a lot better for me than Mageia has- that has been slow to respond for applications to open and wasn’t as intuitive compared to Rosa. Rosa is easy to use and configure, I was able to easily install NVIDIA graphics drivers too. It also has the tools from Mandriva, compared to other Mandriva-based distros that don’t, so it’s less of a learning curve using Rosa.
Overall, Rosa has been working great for me.
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Project: ROSA
Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-22
Votes: 24
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My choice for linux is Rosa. Easy to use with urpmi, and averything I need avaliable for default or on repository. This include nvidia drivers too!
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Project: ROSA
Version: R11
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-12
Votes: 21
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Everything works great in the Plasma edition. Update a little slow, but It's just works. Installed on ASRock Q1900M, 16Gigs ram, 250 SDD drive.
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Project: ROSA
Version: R10
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-01-15
Votes: 0
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Wouldn't even boot on my machine, an Inspiron box with around twelve gigs of ram (don't know the CPU, but I know it's a core i7). The progress bar on the Plymouth screen wouldn't budge, so I switched to the SystemD boot screen and saw that it wouldn't get past "[O.K.] basic system". Won't give it that bad of a rating though I haven't even tried it, but failures like this are unacceptable. 5/10.
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