ALT Linux

Reader supplied reviews for ALT Linux Average rating 8.9 from 22 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on ALT 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: -- Sisyphus10.210.19.19.08.28.17.0.06.0.05.0.04.1.14.03.02.42.32.22.01.1 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: 10.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-27 Votes: 3 Out of the all of Linux Distributions Alt Linux KStation was the only one what was working "out-of-the-box" on my awful Lenovo Legion laptop. The only 3 bad things about this about this distro: 1) Sysyphus repository is updating less frequently than it's competition; 2) you need to do some machinations to get rights to access root (there are instructions in Russian language but I'm unsure about existence of instructions in English). 3) as far as I know only Russian and English versions are available. Though for me all of these things are irrelevant. First is irrelevant because of FlatPack, second is irrelevant for me because I'm a Windows user and Alt KStation is pretty Windows-user-friendly. It was created as "Windows substitute" and most of the tweaking can be done through it's GUI. The third thing is irrelevant to me because only languages I know are Russian and English Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: Sisyphus Rating: 10 Date: 2024-04-25 Votes: 29 Excellent distribution. The latest Gnome. A very large set of programs in the repository. Flatpak support, new kernel. In my opinion, a relatively stable rolling distribution. There are telegram channels where you can ask questions, even without knowing Russian, and get answers. I liked the large knowledge base. Liked the new community wiki, alt-gnome.wiki Although it is in Russian, everything is quite clear through online translation services. In general, I am very pleased with this rolling distribution. ALT Sisyphus Gnome, my choice. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 10.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-11-06 Votes: 23 I tried the ALT Mate release and I wasn't very happy with it. I couldn't get the permissions (root/user) to work properly and there was no visudo around to fix things. I wasn't interested in using Mate on my old desktop anyway (too resource-heavy), so I went back to the Simply Linux XFCE release of ALT without trying to mess around with it too much. The initial Simply Linux XFCE version of ALT install, I'm quite sure, was 10.1, but I updated everything completely after the install and now it shows 10.2. There were some minor bugs I experienced in Simply Linux 10/10.1 (e.g. shift didn't register for XFCE shortcut key specifications so other keys had to be used, including for terminal copy and paste) and these were fixed. I was impressed because I've had issues in other distributions that went unfixed for ages. I did notice that the install slowed down a bit after I installed all the software I typically use. Removing a bunch of autostart applications did help. I also changed the login theme to Slick which I think sped things up a little during boot up (the GTK theme is the default and it's a little buggy/strange in its appearance, so I didn't mind the switch for multiple reasons). It's still not as fast as the fresh install. But, it's not a huge difference and some of it is software-specific. For example, I can get a Floorp browser flatpak release to run blazing fast, while a tar install of Waterfox is a bit sluggish, and a repository install of Firefox is even more sluggish. But, that said, I can get Kodi playing a video on my 15-year-old desktop at the same time as five or so tabs being open on Waterfox without much of an issue. When I use shortcut keys to open Thunar or the terminal with Kodi and Waterfox both running, they almost instantaneously appear. I think that says a lot given the old hardware I'm using. There were some pieces of software I couldn't find in the default repository, but I found them in flatpak form and/or in the autoimports repository that you can add to ALT. (Search the ALT wiki and use a translation site if you don't read Russian. It's not hard to add the autoimports repositories, or you can find the package links on Pkgs.org from autoimports and you can install the individual .rpm files using the ALT RPM Install app that's included with the install without adding the whole repository. I did this for some hashing software without an issue, though ALT warns that the autoimports can be buggy.) I had some issues installing KDE-based software on XFCE because the location of libraries, resources, etc., was incorrect. Installing those few programs through flatpak instead fixed everything. Though, I had to add the flatpak directory to XDG_DATA_DIRS. I wish that had been automatic, but the flatpak installer (on the command-line) did give me a heads-up about it. Overall, the issues I've had have been minor. Some have been fixed very quickly by the people at ALT (thank you) and others are easy to work around. This is my new favorite distribution. Sometimes it can be a pain to find documentation, as I don't read Russian well. But, for most purposes, translation services online do the trick. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 22 reader reviews of ALT Linux...