AlmaLinux OS

Reader supplied reviews for AlmaLinux OS Average rating 8.1 from 65 review(s) What are your thoughts on AlmaLinux OS? 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: -- 10.0-beta9.58.10 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: 9.5 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-01-20 Votes: 3 AlmaLinux 9.5 as a laptop workstation Installed the 9.4 Xfce Live boot image, ran the installer, upgraded to 9.5. I got XFCE working nicely and was satisfied for a couple weeks until I tried to use Bluetooth. Blueman and other Bluetooth GUIs for XFCE were not in EPEL, compiling Blueman was a fail, bluetoothctl worked, but was a pain as well. So I did: dnf groupinstall “Sever with GUI” systemctl start gdm.service systemctl enable gdm.service dnf remove lightdm dnf remove xfce* (maybe I should have done “dnf group remove XFCE”?) AlmaLinux 9.5 Gnome on a 4 year old laptop is flawless. No need to mention it is rock solid. I tried CentOS several years ago and it was a real pain to set up for a laptop. Today it is a piece of cake. My main Gen 13 CPU workstation is Fedora so I wanted something similar for my older gen 10 CPU laptop and something on a different life cycle. I looked at Rocky Linux, but the AlmaLinux community, documents and support seemed more vibrant. Anyway it’s dual boot and I use AlmaLinux (or whatever distro) 99 percent of the time. To install AlmaLinux with Windows, install Windows first, shrink the big Windows partition in the Windows disk/partition manager to free up space for the Linux install. Install AlmaLinux and the final Grub update will install Windows to the Grub boot menu. It’s a big hassle with Windows Pro bitlocker freaking out everytime Grub updates. Doesn’t seem to be a problem with the new Windows Home encryption. I suppose there is a workaround for Windows Pro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-12-30 Votes: 0 I am using AlmaLinux 9.5 as a desktop operating system. The Boot ISO image was chosen for installation, via a USB flash drive. The AlmaLinux installation process uses Anaconda (like Fedora, Red Hat, etc.) which I find fairly easy to use. All hardware was detected and the installation completed without any issues. Note: Automatic partitioning was selected for an LVM and XFS file system. For previous installations of AlmaLinux, I have used a standard layout with an Ext4 file system for the boot and root partitions and XFS for home/data partitions. No difference has been noticed in performance with the LVM and XFS file system. Following installation: 1. I run from the command line “sudo systemctl mask power-profiles-daemon” 2. Turn off remote sharing through the Gnome Settings, Sharing page. The installed AlmaLinux system is operating very well, runs fast and seems extremely stable. The Gnome desktop environment is provided with minimal applications being added during installation. I prefer this as it allows me to chose the software applications I want, rather than ones chosen by a distro packager. EPEL, RPMFusion and Flatpaks can be used to obtain additional software applications. No difficulty has been encountered in finding any of the applications I use. Software management can be handled by using dnf or Gnome Software. Both methods are working well. Generally, any documentation needs have been easily found with a quick internet search. I really like AlmaLinux’s community focus and their attention to product validation. Verdict: AlmaLinux is a great “Enterprise Quality” community distro! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.4 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-06-15 Votes: 6 We've been quite happy so far with AlmaLinux OS. Being prior CentOS7 consumers (yes, the old one), we just needed an OS that's stable for our VPSs and maintained. All the package upgrades going from CentOS -> AlmaLinux were very nice as well. We're running low powered (cheap) VPSs and everything seems to work fine: Apache, php, fail2ban on a 1cpu, 1GB system w/ a 2Gig swap. The move from AlmaLinux 8x -> 9x was smooth with few issues. Our only issue is that we probably need a little more powerful VPS for php and so fail2ban blocks the 'bots a little quicker. We see no need to change the OS when migrating to a new VPS. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 65 reader reviews of AlmaLinux OS...