Mageia

Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.5 from 135 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: -- cauldron10987.165.14.1321 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: 10 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-07-11 Country: United States Votes: 4 I've only been on this for about two weeks and there are some things that I have yet to touch, however, so far I really like this and waiting to dig into the more network related side to things. Side note before wasting peoples time reading this: I'm testing this as a server and not as a desktop OS so giving you the option to skip reading if want. Pluses: - Gives you network options right away to join a domain or not, and to become the PDC or not (still in testing) - Picked up my raid from previous install right away, I did have to take ownership but was a non-issue. - Asked to setup folder shares right away, didn't have to install additional packages (still in testing) - Easy to get to Control Panel and tools. Controls gave you direct access to everything. This needs to be HIGHLIGHTED. The control panel was laid out in way that made sharing out folders easy to get to and all of it in one location. It also gave you access to other items all in one location. This made server management easy to do. - Easy to get to App manager in two different locations. Cons: The one thing I don't care for, is after installing an app, like Gparted, it wasn't showing up in the Menu, at least not where I could find it, I had to do a search for it. It showed up in the search just fine and then it showed up in the Menu as "Recent apps" but was not listed as an available application just scrolling through the Menu and was a little frustrating. I'm still doing some testing but as of right now, I really like this distro. I wasn't sure about it at first as it's not a distro that is named in a lot of Linux searches but as of now, I'm really impressed with where this is going. I can see where this would be a good a server and then the desktop being used along side it as an overall Maeia ecosystem. This is not bad and makes support easy to do. I'm looking forward to further testing with this. Thanks! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 10 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-07-09 Country: France Votes: 25 Bonjour à tous, Je suis passé à Mageia 10, et là, j'ai pris une claque. Je trouvais Mageia 9 très bien et très peu bugué mais Mageia 10, c'est la taille au dessus. Performant et rapide, très facile à installer (je me méfie des migrations). Avec Mageia 9, j'avais un problème lors de la fermeture (shutdown). Ce problème a été résolu. L'image de Tux se baignant dans un chaudron est sympa. Bref, la distro qui a tout bon et qui maintient XFCE contrairement à d'autres ... Je recommande vivement cette distribution française. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-06-17 Country: France Votes: 110 J'utilise Linux depuis Mandrake (merci Gaël Duval) et j'ai suivi cette distribution jusqu'a Mageia sans jamais être déçu. Depuis l'apparition de l'ADSL et sa rapidité de téléchargement, j'utilise exclusivement Linux (Mageia) à la maison. J'ai aussi installé plusieurs petits serveurs sous Mageai au boulot, qui ont fonctionnés sans jamais de problèmes (il semble que ce soit les seuls qui n'avaient pas besoins d'être rebootés de temps en temps). A la retraite depuis plusieurs mois, je crois savoir que ces serveurs fonctionnent toujours bien que malheureusement personne n'ai vraiment pris la suite pour promouvoir Linux. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 135 reader reviews of Mageia...