Mageia

Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.4 from 125 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. 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 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: 10 Date: 2025-06-22 Votes: 70 I use Q4OS as my daily driver on an old Acer Aspire 5315 (2GB ram, 500 GB hard drive). It runs good. It kept the laptop from ending up in the dumpster. My sister had the same exact model and was about to throw it away. I intercepted it from her lol. Even though Q4OS is a great distro for older hardware, I wanted to try something different. So I decided to try a different Linux distro on her laptop. I did a search on Google and found an article that discussed light Linux distributions for older PCs. Someone in the article mentioned Mageia. So I went ahead and downloaded the 32 bit XFCE version to try it out. It's odd that Mageia isn't mentioned much in the Linux community. It is a great distro! It runs pretty good on my Aspire 5315 laptop. I can only imagine how nice it would run on modern hardware. Installation was easy, updating the system was simple, and there is a great assortment of software available. I was even able to find an older software I used in the past to edit RAW format digital images (UFRaw) which is no longer available in other distros. I now have two Linux distros that I really enjoy using. Give Mageia a try. Chances are you won't be disappointed. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-20 Votes: 65 one of the best Linux distributions for beginners and advanced users alike. It allowed me to easily encrypt my hard disk with LVM partitioning without having to worry about anything :-) It's easy to use and very pleasant, especially under Gnome, even though Mageia is a Plasma/KDE-oriented distribution. I use it every day on an old 2011 laptop equipped with a core i3. A laptop that won't go to waste when Mageia 10 is released ;-) I can't recommend this distribution highly enough. Of course, if you want to install Mageia on a very recent computer, it may be more prudent to wait for the release of Mageia 10, or for the more courageous, to use the version currently under development (Cauldron). Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-06-11 Votes: 0 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 See all 125 reader reviews of Mageia...