Adélie Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Adélie Linux Average rating 10 from 2 review(s) What are your thoughts on Adélie Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 1.0-beta6 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 1.0-beta6 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-07-01 Votes: 1 Although Adelie is still in beta and appears to have been so for quite some time, I can see huge potential here, which is why I'm giving it a "10" rating despite some, for lack of a better word, issues. Adelie comes across immediately as fast, clean, and unbloated. If I were to have to make some quick comparisons, the distros that come to mind for me while using Adelie are Slackware, Alpine (from which they use the APK package manager), Void, and Gentoo. Unlike those four, however, Adelie manages doing this with a simple GUI installation. Pros: * Fast * Easy installation * APK package manager * No systemd (although I believe they plan to offer it as an option) * Clean * Independent Cons: * No option to "clear" the terminal * Limited number of packages at this point As far as the "cons" go, I did find it strange that I couldn't clear the terminal. I thought this was a standard function of all UNIX-like operating systems. In terms of available packages, things are still fairly limited, but using APK is great. Although I chose the KDE Plasma 5 version to test, and it did come with Firefox, I actually prefer to use smaller, faster browsers, and attempting to install the Falkon browser came up empty. During my testing so far, I have encountered no crashes, freezes, or otherwise aberrant behavior. I will say that I am very excited to have found and tested Adelie. I have not been this optimistic about a new Linux distro since Void. I will continue to use Adelie and follow it's development. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.0-beta6 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-04 Votes: 2 Adelie Linux is a simple and easy to use Linux distribution. It booted up quickly in my VMware virtual machine. I was surprised at how fast it was; everything opened quickly. No other Linux distro with KDE that I tested was as fast. One thing though, it is still on KDE Plasma 5. The installation was very easy, it was a simple installer that did not ask many questions. I noticed it was similar to Windows' installer. The layout was also like a Windows setup program. This was done most likely so that anyone who comes from Windows can install the OS without being confused. After the install, the VM rebooted into the KDE 5 desktop. There was virtually no bloat, it was a pure KDE experience. For some reason, the audio drivers were not detected, but this was probably a VM thing. Overall it was a good experience. A small, bloat-free, quick operating system like this is good for people who want a computer that just works. I've seen Adelie Linux be installed on really old computers, like an old iMac G3 and similar, so that is yet another good thing about this distro: you can install it on virtually anything and it will perform nicely. Was this review helpful? Yes No