OpenMandriva 23.08 review (Linuxiac)

[Jason]

OpenMandriva is the decendant of Linux Mandrake that the founding members of PLUG used. It made installing and using Linux easy. I tried OpenMandriva a couple of years ago and was underwhelmed.

Here's a brief review of the latest version of the rolling-release OpenMandriva. The bottomline is a thumbs up from the author.

https://linuxiac.com/openmandriva-rome-23-08-a-superb-rolling-release-distro/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

[buster]

Another child of Mandrake through Mandriva is Mageia, which I have used. Solid and complete. Usually gets better reviews than OpenMandriva, but that doesn't always mean anything. Mageia was launched in 2010.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

[Jason]

Now that I think of it, Mageia may have been the one I had trouble with. Whichever it was, I tried it because I wanted to try having multiple desktop environments at the same time. It didn't work. Maybe functional, but ugly and unpredicable. But that might be a user case they didn't really test for even though the gave you the option to install more than one DE at a time.