AxOS

Reader supplied reviews for AxOS Average rating 6.3 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on AxOS? 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: -- 25.06 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: 25.06 Rating: 4 Date: 2025-06-25 Votes: 0 Beatiful OS, but difficult to reconfigure. I choose antother script to increase the capabilities of hyprland environtment, i want to try to install other browser. when i try to run the new browser (Vivaldi, brave, etc...) the session logoff and i need to logon again, including if i choose from terminal to launch it. Try to modify config files but the shortcut Super+B to launch the browser, have the same result. The only browser is firefox. The theme Sleex apparently is a good desktop environtment, but we need an application to modify the desktop. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.06 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-06-04 Votes: 0 Tried it on a real PC, I wanted to see it's prime. First impressions? Surprisingly polished. The install process is smoother than an average Arch-based setup. It’s not Calamares-level hand-holding, but it’s clean, guided, and doesn’t require sacrificing a goat to get Wi-Fi working. The real standout, though, is the desktop experience. AxOS uses a custom DE called Sleex, based on Hyprland with the AGS widget system. It's slick, and surprisingly cohesive, like someone actually thought about UX instead of just slapping a rice-filled config together. Animations are snappy, the widgets are useful, and the overall layout feels modern even being a little bit bloated. Performance-wise? Kind of fast. It boots in seconds, and multitasking doesn’t slow it down at all, even better with the tiling window management. I ran some dev tools, Docker containers, and even some light gaming (Proton works great) without a hiccup. The downsides? It’s still a young project. Documentation can be sparse, and if you run into something weird, you might be on your own—or digging through the GitHub issues. There’s a Discord, but the community isn’t huge yet (111 members as I'm writing this). Also, while the design is clean, it’s very opinionated. If you don’t vibe with the aesthetic, you can change it if you're good with JavaScript, which I'm not. Bugs are here, but I contacted the maintainer via email and answered in the next 10 hours to help me. If you like bleeding edge with some elegance, AxOS is a surprisingly solid choice. Just keep Timeshift handy, just in case. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.06 Rating: 6 Date: 2025-06-03 Votes: 3 I decided to give AxOS a try on an AMD laptop, mostly for Sleek and the overall look. The install was easy with minimal options. It seems to default to GRUB MBR by default, so had to go back and do manual partitioning for EFI through the GUI installer and it worked fine. Sleek looks nice but has some rough patches: keybinding "cheat sheet" is blank in the control center, many of the key combos listed on the Sleek webpage do not work. I am not sure what if any advantages there are from having Epsi but it works well. Overall I think I think this distro has a bright future and look forward to its evolution, but perhaps it should still have a 'beta' tag, especially with Sleek the default Desktop now. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of AxOS...