Mageia

Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.3 from 123 review(s) What are your thoughts on Mageia? 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: -- cauldron987.165.14.1321 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 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-06-11 Votes: 7 A stable release, but lacks a little bit on keeping up with the times. For example it should be using Network manager and not the old scripts. It would benefit in moving from ip tables and shorewall to nftables and firewalld because these are way more adaptable. I find Wayland plasma to be now better than X11 too which is available on mageia. Nvidia support with nouvaux is still a bit of a disaster and allowing easier integration of propriatory drivers would be really useful. Also I have found it good do with better nfv4 support in the control center so that kerberos can be supported, but generally control center is much better than what is offered with ubuntu. By and large it is a very underrated distro and worthy of much more support. Oh and before I forget kmail isnt very good and they should really adopt thunderbird out of the box. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-25 Votes: 102 It is simply beyond me why this distro is not better known. I recently acquired an old (2005)32 bit T43 with 1.5 GB RAM so a low resource distro was mandatory. Several venerable choices like antiX failed but Mageia was a champ. Coming at a mere 247 MB RAM with wifi connected, 625 MB RAM with Firefox up and running, and 849 MB RAM with a youtube video playing. That left me with enough RAM to have Write, Impress, and Calc open at the same time – pretty impressive. Other equally impressive distros were Salix, Slackel, and Porteus but the thing that sets Mageia apart is its innate simplicity due to its Control Center. Updates are easily handled, no tech knowledge needed. That is in contrast to the former where I felt you needed a bit more technical acumen. I think any Windows level of knowledge user would feel at home with Mageia. It is a solid, well thought out, tried and true, solid old school implementation. Mageia purports its purpose to be providing a: “Stable, secure operating system for desktop & server”. It squarely nails the mark. Judging by its release schedule and other things I doubt Mageia is for those running new hardware or wanting the latest software but I think those of us who just want to do basic computing will find comfort in Mageia’s stability. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-05-14 Votes: 151 Comme utilisateur lambda, je ne suis pas un pro de l'informatique, Mageia répond parfaitement à mes attentes : Installation simple Centre de contrôle qui permet d'effectuer de nombreuses opérations sans taper de commande dans un terminal (installation de l'imprimante, d'un vieux scanner agfa, d'un scanneur á diapositives, mise en route du wifi, du bluetooth, d'un accès internet par cable, d'une webcam, etc) Je ne tape jamais de commande en console, je trouve toujours une interface graphique pour les programmes que j'utilise Mageia est en français, de même pour le site de la distribution ce qui est un gros avantage pour qui ne pratique pas l'anglo_saxon. Une communauté française Mageia Linux Online très réactive. Cette distribution est installée sur un portable Lenovo et sur un vieux ordinateur Acer où elle rempli parfaitement son rôle (navigation Internet, courrier électronique, retouche photos, scan, impression, écoute de musique, visionnage de films,...) pour un utilisateur qui ne veut pas se prendre la tête et qui n'aspire pas à devenir un geek. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 123 reader reviews of Mageia...