GLF OS

Reader supplied reviews for GLF OS Average rating 9.1 from 21 review(s) What are your thoughts on GLF 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: -- 25.1125.05 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: 26.05 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-26 Country: France Votes: 4 I discovered this distro by pure luck, didn't appealed to me at first, then I tried it and I'm convinced!! It is based on NixOS, with few bundle choice for preinstalled programs : - mini which is not programs preinstalled (just use NixOS then) - gaming : steam and all preinstalled, protonGE, support for controllers, steering wheel etc out of the box, very easy for gamers to start, also mangohud, openRGB, and even tool for streamdeck (I dont have one to try sorry). - studio : (didn't try but )gaming but with content creators tools like davinci resolve ready NixOS is a known as very advanced distro but with GLF you can still be somewhat a beginner and have a good time, there is a flatpak store GUI preinstalled, but if you are an advanced user, you can still do anything you'd do with NixOS like installing a WM and rice it :D Also they've done a great job with Nix Disk which let you set auto-mount disks with a simple to use GUI. It comes with a choice between a custom gnome and a vanilla KDE, with also a simple GUI to switch between the 2 ! Very recommended, you install it, don't think about anything to set, you can already play games! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.05 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-24 Country: France Votes: 1 FR J'ai découvert cette distro très récemment et elle m'a tout de suite plu pour plusieurs raisons : - La base NixOS déclarative très solide et très stable - Possibilité de rollback en cas de souci avec une mise à jour - prête out of the box pour le gaming sans prise de tête - la performance en gaming avec son noyau personnalisé, tous les drivers installés ootb - distro française avec un support en français - les développeurs à l'écoute des utilisateurs EN I discovered this distro very recently and immediately liked it for several reasons: - The very solid and stable declarative NixOS base. - The ability to roll back in case of problems with an update. - Ready ootb for hassle-free gaming. - Gaming performance with its custom kernel, all drivers installed ootb. - French distro with French support. - Developers who listen to users. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.05 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-02-08 Country: Belgium Votes: 2 A very interesting initiative from the French-speaking community, perhaps a bit too centered on the language of Molière. It deserves to become more international, but work seems to be underway in that direction. Still a young distribution but already promising, it’s built on a source-based foundation which, in twelve years of existence, had not yet produced any notable derivatives. GLF is thus its first successful “offspring,” adopting the excellent principles of Nix. The community team behind it shows a real commitment to stability, security, coherence, and thoughtful decision-making. Far from the temptation to integrate every new feature at all costs, they carefully evaluate each improvement and are not afraid to roll back unpopular changes. Yet, they don’t miss major developments in the open-source world—CPU schedulers, Wayland, Proton, zram, btrfs, Mesa, HDR, Flatpak, PipeWire, and so on. Although it still lacks some maturity, it has now become a distribution to watch closely for all Linux gaming enthusiasts. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 21 reader reviews of GLF OS...