BigLinux

Reader supplied reviews for BigLinux Average rating 9.1 from 129 review(s) Version: 2026-03-28 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-03-28 Country: United States Votes: 9 When I first heard of BigLinux, I dismissed it because it was advertised as a Portuguese-oriented OS and I was American English. Yet as my search for the best implemented OS continued, my choices of a suitable OS were dwindling fast. One day as I was scraping the bottom of the barrel, I carefully reread the description of all OSes in DistroWatch, whether they sounded appealing or not, and I realized that BigLinux wasn’t anything like what I first thought it was like. So to make a short story long, what does BigLinux have that literally none of the other OSes has all in one place? 1) Past experience has taught me that I didn’t want an OS that I had to change out every three years. I have always wanted a computer that I buy and run it until it dies, and never be forced to reinstall anything. BigLinux is a running release so that problem is solved. 2) As a developer, I wanted an up-to-date system, and BigLinux does that through it’s running release system. MX Linux was stuck for years at a very early version of GTK4, far behind the latest version, but BigLinux had the very latest from the very start which allows me to stay ahead of the game. 3) As a Linux noobie, I didn’t want an update that would force me to have to reinstall or patch anything. If that ever happens with Big Linux, they give you a very easy way to rollback updates until they can get it fixed. Extremely few other OSes do that, and do that so easily and simply, and that makes the one-button rollback a huge bonus. 4) Steam and Lutris are preinstalled. Having Lutris preinstalled made it easy to move on to the next step, which was to solve problems with running certain Steam games. I would have never tried Lutris and get know what a life-saver it could be it it hadn’t been preinstalled. 5) Built-in webapp and flatpak support that actually is supported very well (like for easily setting permissions for flatpaks). Also, I’m not restricted to just webapps or flatpaks, I have a huge choice of programs, which is something my experience with other non-Debian OSes did not have. Wow! 6) Smartphone integration. Again, another thing I would have never considered installing without a lot of research of how to do that and make it work, but BigLinux has made this easy. 7) BigLinux comes with AI preinstalled but disabled, giving me a choice if I want AI, and I will never want any AI on my computer. So that was a respectful thing for them to do instead of forcing onto me like quite of few other OSes do. 8) Very few OSes can boot up very fast, and some OSes can shut down somewhat fast, but I have never seen any other OS come even close to how fast Big Linux boots up and shuts down. I have a habit from my former job (where I was required to have a secret clearance) to always wait for my computer to completely turn off after I shut down the OS (especially with a laptop, which malware authors like to hijack and turn into a zombie computer), and BigLinux was super amazingly fast! Good work all of you people who helped make BigLinux possible! You have far exceeded my expectations. I was ready to settle down with MX Linux, despite all its shortcomings, but now I have an OS that is better than anything Apple or Microsoft or most any other Linux-based OS would ever dream of making, and it does it without ever invading my privacy. Version: 2026-03-14 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-03-24 Country: United States Votes: 9 It just works for me. I can get some AppImage packages to run, some flatpaks and even a deb printer driver! Top and bottom panel is what I like, and its right there for the choosing -without me having to manually create it all. - also using with additional icons installed. So far it runs my Snapmaker and Bambu Orca slicers, along with simple firefox usage. - manjaro, cachyos and fedora (kde) do not run the snapmaker slicer (easly) So far, its running smoother with AMD CPU/D-GPU than my last few ubuntu/debian distros. Thanks! Version: 2026-03-14 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-03-17 Country: Brazil Votes: 9 O BigLinux simplesmente superou todas as minhas expectativas! 🚀 Sistema rápido, bonito e extremamente fácil de usar, mesmo sendo baseado em Arch. A instalação de programas e drivers é muito prática, e já vem praticamente pronto pra jogos, com ótimo suporte a Steam e Proton. A performance é excelente, principalmente em hardware mais moderno, e o KDE vem super bem configurado, fluido e altamente personalizável. Dá pra deixar o sistema exatamente do seu jeito sem complicação. Outro ponto forte é a comunidade brasileira, que facilita muito na hora de tirar dúvidas e aprender mais sobre o sistema. Pra quem quer um Linux moderno, poderoso e pronto pra jogar, o BigLinux é uma escolha certeira! See all 129 reader reviews of BigLinux...