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What do you like best about Mageia?

Mageia stands out for its respect for the freedom of users and has a very active forum. I like diversified software offered through its repositories to meet almost every need one has for the software. This together with the ability to tweak the systems to one’s desire makes Mageia a good fit for experienced Linux users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

The selection of software is vast, that managing packages can be complicated and a bit annoying.. Like most other distro out there, Mageia comes with RPM packages which cannot be installed, updated or deleted without the use of some sort of command line interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mageia is known as a strong and highly configurable Linux distribution ideal for those who prefer free and open-source solutions.The active community is very useful, he assists in problem solving and assists me in fine tuning my system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Mageia?

Mageia community project develops and maintains a Free Software, GNU/Linux-based operating system for PCs and servers, for developers, businesses and individuals.

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Mageia community project develops and maintains a Free Software, GNU/Linux-based operating system for PCs and servers, for developers, businesses and individuals.


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Mageia
Year Founded
2010
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Paris, France
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24 employees on LinkedIn®

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Loren C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Linux community trained for Mageia"
I like Mageia because it is transparent to all users, there is nothing hidden and it works perfectly on all types of PC. It recognizes all types o...
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Moez E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Extensive software selection"
Mageia stands out for its respect for the freedom of users and has a very active forum. I like diversified software offered through its repositorie...
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5.0 out of 5
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This is one of the good with offering Stability and Reliability along with user friendly interface and tools which allows you to costomize based on...
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What do you like best about Mageia?

I like Mageia because it is transparent to all users, there is nothing hidden and it works perfectly on all types of PC.

It recognizes all types of hardware and constant security updates.

Registration to participate in the Mageia project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

There are programs that generate errors and you need to enter the code to solve them, the community is not always attentive to new problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Download and install Mageia by ISO, it is easy and fast for new users.

Versions available to download the necessary and stable one.

Use on my PC for development use and contributions to my data with the free code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

This is one of the good with offering Stability and Reliability along with user friendly interface and tools which allows you to costomize based on usage which is a good features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

The only things we like to have regular updates but Mageia takes like 18 months for update for any new features and bug fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was time saving and better user interface and ranage of software helped to create a user-friendly environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Virat K.
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What do you like best about Mageia?

It is overall a good distro for home usage and the good documentation is there. It runs without crashes and can handle we can install any type of software in it and it is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

It requires sometimes to reboot the system when we ae installing some particular software. It contains many useful packages in its repo. My overall comment on it is It just works not so good requires lot of work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

The distro is nicely maintained, good online documentation is there and a friendly community which ready to help you. It has MCC for your all controls and setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kalash J.
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What do you like best about Mageia?

It has awesome friendly community. It has proper documentation, desktop apperance is good, start menu is there, has a good file manager and specially it has parental control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

Limited documentation for some feaure but the community is there to help you out. It provides the more bleeding edge to the user sometime it is not so soomth else it is very good to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has good internet connectivity, multimedia support is very good, contributing is very easy and it has great future like ubuntu and any other distro in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

Good collection of tools, user friendly enhancement & graphics driver support.

It's secure as it is Linux based.

Most attractive feature is it's free to use for everyone who has been thinking of a new platform to use.

During installation it removes unused modules to save space.

It has its own network and you can connect wireless or wired connection to it.

It supports AppStream. Welcome window is very informational about the whole system use. It has latest KDE. Some of its stuffs are based on Mandriva and those are a good.

It's a full fledged distro which works well as long as you use the GUI tool.it has good wifi setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

Upgrading package using source is time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mageia:

Can give it a try as it's still new. As this an open source so no burden of buying it and you can all have a chance to use a linex based new platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's stable, clean and bug free.

Saves lot of time and is secured.

Able to drive and use a new linux platform and that to free of cost.

No burden of buying it.

It's absolutely stunning to use from enduser standpoint. It's smooth and can run both KDE and Gnome and can switch between them. It's robust and uses two packet managers urpm and dnf. Urpmi is easy to remember but has not been necessary as everything can be done graphically, installation, installation, and a wide range of desktop environment and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

Few things which I like about this OS are:-

- First of all its very easy to install

- During the install, Mageia will remove unused modules and localization to save space

- Provide a step to step guide for application introduction

- Mageia Control system is quite impressive. Provides unified system configuration tool.

- It comes with its own network connectivity, which lets you connect wireless and wired network connection

- Robustness capability of the GUI program.

- and its cool UI is quite refreshing for new users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

I actually liked Mageia. but still found few dislike points or I can say thins which can be improved

- Performance can be improved

-very rarely any application crash or application hang up happened but that too because of aggressive use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mageia:

Mageia is a totally refreshing and interesting OS which comes with loads of beautiful, powerful and professional features and provides a very good user experience. The approach to the user experience is different from most other systems, and I am really happy to see that.

I would definitely recommend this os for sure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

well, its client chose to use Mageia, they want to develop an application which could be easily run on this OS.

And for me, it's a great experience using this OS.

Moreover, it's better to use Mageia rather than paying big money to buy another OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

I like this system for the use of the XFCE desktop, it is simple and light, it requires few PC courses, the graphic interface is very nice and pleasant for any user.

AppStream and Fedora support, ease of installation of many programs from DNF.

When the installation is finished, the welcome window gives a lot of information about the system and support of the whole system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

This program is beautiful and stable, with a lot of compatibility of RPM programs, I have no complaints about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mageia:

This distribution is powerful and compatible with RPM, it is easy to install many Fedora programs, it is very good, I recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mageia gives me the opportunity to use stable and complete distribution RPM programs such as Fedora and Red Hat, it is complete and serves to work with server service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

I like the possibilities and more open options, I like the system management and the actual network sharing that the system offers as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

I dislike the fact that Mageia looks and acts too much like Plamsa systems. Also, the network manager is very big and bulky as it opens in another window and it is a slower operation than the other network tabs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mageia:

Think about the fact that the program does in fact offer a lot of solutions but the system is best implemited throguh second party backups and Lineuz helps a million!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am able to fully run through the live systems and it offers documents, community and different supports for the run of the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

In case they did not know, Mageia is one of the best GNU / Linux distributions, with which you have to take your hat off.

It is easy to use and complements effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

The post-installation configuration is somewhat slow, and you have to do the entire time zone and language before viewing the desktop, but it works.

It has some things to improve, such as performance since it consumes a lot of CPU and with few applications running it shows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mageia:

I recommend it, because Mageia offers everything, and it may seem archaic and overwhelming, but it also has a professional air. The center really offers a wide range of options, and they all seem to work well. You can configure anything, in addition to the usual range of Plasma settings, with a very small overlap. Some of the really nice pieces include the ability to create system snapshots, as well as security features. Necessary or not, they exist, and you can tweak them a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I save money by not paying very expensive private licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mageia?

Mageia is a Linux-based Operating System, very stable with a very large community.

Mageia has a personal desktop and Server version, it adapts very well to home servers, where you can have and configure your home server at ease.

Mageia requires few PC resources, so you can download and install on a low PC and resources and make good use of a great Operating System. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

I like Mageia a lot, it is based on large corporations and always has daily updates, I need to have more publicity in the Linux community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mageia:

I recommend those users who wish to enter the Linux world, where you can do many things and your opportunities are very wide.

Mageia is based on very famous and stable Linux Operating Systems where they always receive major updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mageia solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Mageia you save money on very expensive privative licenses in Operating System and LibreOffice jobs, you can have a stable, current Operating System with many constant updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.