Synex

Reader supplied reviews for Synex Average rating 8.8 from 8 review(s) What are your thoughts on Synex? 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: -- 26051113-u9 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: 13-u7 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-23 Country: Argentina Votes: 2 I have tried many distributions that call themselves minimalist, but most of them are not really minimal in practice. They either include too much by default or remove so much that the result becomes inconvenient. Synex felt more balanced to me. It provides the essentials and, more importantly, lets the user choose. I liked the fact that I could decide what additional software to install, or skip it and keep the system lean. A highlight for me was the NVIDIA helper. I tested it with an RTX 2070 and it worked very well. That made setup much easier than on many other distributions. I also installed Synex on an old Core i3 machine with 8 GB of RAM, and it performed better than I expected. The system was responsive, stable and perfectly usable on older hardware. What I liked most is that Synex understands minimalism in a practical way: enough to be useful, but without unnecessary clutter. That is rarer than it should be. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 13-u7 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-19 Country: Serbia Votes: 2 Greatest debian distro for me. Beautiful xfce theme, light, zippy and stable. Comes with preinstalled set of utilities that includes Linux software installation, nVidia driver installation and some other goodies which makes life of a newbee migrating from Win to Linux smooth and easy. This is the one that ended distro-hopping for me :P They also make this distro with MATE, KDE, MATE, LXDE, GNOME, and IceWM window mangers. And there is also server version of this distro. Thank you for all your work! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 13-u6 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-03-16 Country: Japan Votes: 2 日本からの投稿です。 このディストリビューションは素晴らしいと感じました。動作が軽く、インストール容量は６GB以下です（LibreofficeやChromeをインストールした状態）。 Corei3-3470T / RAM4GB / 32G-SSDで使っていますが、快適な速度で動きます。 ただし、InputMethodoは問題が起きました。KDE のDEでは、fcitx / fcitx5　の動作に問題があります。GNOME　ではibus-mozcが利用できます。このDistroのように最新のLinux環境では、日本語などのローカル言語にはトラブルがありますから注意が必要です。 このようにIMのトラブルが起きるのはとくにKDE6が多いようです。KDEは6になってからとても軽くなっていますが、まだ安定が足りないと感じます。waylandの問題もあると思いますが、開発が進めば問題はなくなると思います。 GNOMEバージョンはデスクトップもシンプルで使いやすいです。GNOMEは安定しているので、トラブルの心配が少ないのがいいです。 サウンドも細かい設定ができるので、いろいろな環境で動作することができるでしょう。私はDPポートからディスプレイのHDMIポートに繋いで使っていますが、音は問題なく出力できました。 今後は開発が進んで小さなトラブルがFIXされることを希望します。 Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of Synex...