artixlinux Reviews

Archbang-Artix and Artix: you have done an extraordinary job creating such a excellent free Linux distro, and I want to thank you for that! I have tried both, Archbang-Artix and Artix, Open-RC, October and November 2017 releases, and they work flawlessly. A hint, just install the base w/o graphical userinterface (Artix) and then do the install job by hand: A quick road to success with OpenRC for newbies: ------------------------------------------------ $ sudo pacman -Syu $ sudo pacman -S xfce4 xorg ttf-dejavu $ pacman -S sddm //(Artix) $ pacman -S lxdm //(Archbang; lxdm!) How to configure the display manager? ------------------------------------- $ sudo pacman -S displaymanager-openrc $ sudo vi /etc/conf.d/xdm //(set sddm, lxdm... instead of xdm) $ sudo rc-update add xdm default Reboot, success. Some steps: X11 forwarding: sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config --> X11Forwarding yes Install some nice tools and things: ----------------------------------- sudo pacman -S net-tools sudo pacman -S xapps sudo pacman -S xorg-xclock sudo pacman -S artix-backgrounds gnome-backgrounds mate-background sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh-en-GB libreoffice-fresh-de libreoffice-fresh-fr sudo pacman -S make cmake gcc python3 sudo pacman -S eclipse-cpp This got me a fully working system with which I can continue..... I'm now on a fresh install and can continue where Manjaro OpenRC left me. Please move that post to whatever place that suites your purpose best. Once again, THANK YOU! Andre, 06-NOV-2017

I moved all my arch-openrc and manjaro-openrc installations to artix and they all work pretty well. I had a minor glitch with a network card on one computer but I hope to solve this soon. Anyway, I am extremely happy that there is this distribution so I can keep using Linux with openrc. Big thanks to the developers.

Xfce iso will prepare??

After a few days with minor issues, mostly on package signatures and Artix keyring, the distribution runs flawlessly. I have ditched LXQT for openbox and some LXDE tools. Reinstalled Pamac that now works well, just when I had gotten comfortable and confident with yaourt-gui. Two thumbs up for the team! sysdfree.wordpress.com we are with you all the way!

featured the LXQT desktop and minimal decent desing, but still gets heavy on some hardware

Source code ?? cant boot to GUI

I wanted to install it but the installer Calamares gets stuck at 15 % and never progress ahead Edit : With current ISO finally managed to install Artix but Calamares has issues, It formatted one of my parallel installed distro on another partition without any warning , I only chose one target partition for Artix root and never chose any other partition. Calamares also failed to install Cinnamon so I had to install it through chroot from another arch linux installation