Mageia Reviews & Product Details

Mageia is a free and open-source Linux-based operating system that originated as a fork of Mandriva Linux. Managed by the non-profit organization Mageia.Org, it is developed collaboratively by a global community of users and developers. Mageia is designed to be user-friendly, offering a variety of desktop environments and a comprehensive suite of applications to cater to diverse user needs. Key Features and Functionality: - Desktop Environments: Mageia supports multiple desktop environments, including KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, and Enlightenment, allowing users to choose their preferred interface. - Package Management: The distribution utilizes the urpmi package manager, with DNF available as an alternative, facilitating efficient software installation and management. - Comprehensive Software Repository: Mageia offers a vast repository of software, including productivity tools like LibreOffice, web browsers such as Firefox, multimedia applications like VLC, and graphic editors like GIMP. - Hardware Support: The operating system provides robust hardware support, including compatibility with UEFI systems, ensuring it runs on a wide range of hardware configurations. - Mageia Control Center: This centralized configuration tool allows users to manage system settings, hardware, and software installations through an intuitive graphical interface. Primary Value and User Solutions: Mageia aims to deliver a stable, secure, and user-friendly Linux distribution suitable for both newcomers and experienced users. Its extensive hardware support and choice of desktop environments make it adaptable to various user preferences and system requirements. The comprehensive software repository ensures that users have access to a wide array of applications for different tasks, while the Mageia Control Center simplifies system management. By providing a community-driven, open-source platform, Mageia empowers users with control over their computing environment, fostering a collaborative and inclusive ecosystem.

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Jeffrey K.

VICE PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/19/2025

"MAGEIA PRINCIPALS"

5/5

What do you like best about Mageia?

IS KNOWN FOR ITS USER-FRIENDLY MODULAR ARCHITECTURE, AND ACTIVE COMMUNITY SUPPORT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mageia?

MAJOR RELEASES ARE ALWAYS DELAYED. THE OTHER PROBLEM/ISSUE IS TO DISABLE LOGIN EACH SESSION Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Loren C.

Software Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2025

"Linux community trained for Mageia"

4.5/5

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.

Moez E.

HR Analyst

Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/2/2024

"Extensive software selection"

4/5

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.

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/23/2023

"Mageia Review"

5/5

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.

Virat K.

Data Scientist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Future distro - Mageia"

4/5

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.

Kalash J.

Data Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Mageia - The new distro to use for the work"

4/5

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.

Swaraj D.

Test Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/20/2020

"Mageia new to market review"

4.5/5

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.

Amit K.

Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2020

"Cool and refreshing OS"

4/5

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.

Nathan B.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2019

"It uses RPM programs."

4/5

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.

Amellia G.

Internal Auditor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/12/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"I think Mageia offers a proffessional and affordable look for a control center "

4/5

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.