Aurora

Reader supplied reviews for Aurora Average rating 8.9 from 17 review(s) What are your thoughts on Aurora? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 44.2026090143.2026050542.20251111 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 44.20260901 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-09-03 Country: Austria Votes: 5 I’ve been using Aurora Linux on my Intel NUC 11, and I honestly couldn’t be happier with it. The installation was completely flawless, and everything worked right out of the box. The Intel Iris Xe graphics are very well supported, including VA-API hardware acceleration, and having all the multimedia codecs already installed is fantastic. No messing around trying to get basic things like HEVC playback and hardware acceleration working. I eventually upgraded to Aurora DX, the developer edition, and it fits my use case perfectly. I use the NUC both as my everyday desktop and as a small homelab, and Docker works beautifully. I’m running services such as Immich for my photo library, Jellyfin for movies and media, and Vaultwarden for password management. So far, the whole experience has been rock solid. Aurora gives me a great desktop while also being an excellent foundation for my homelab. The only thing worth mentioning is that you need to be aware of Firewalld and SELinux when setting up services. Once you understand those two, everything works extremely well. Overall, Aurora has been one of the nicest Linux experiences I’ve had. It feels polished, modern, and incredibly well suited to Intel hardware. Highly recommended! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 44.20260804 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-08-26 Country: Poland Votes: 1 I've been running Aurora and Bazzite for a while now, but I always come back to Aurora. It has much more sensible defaults when you want an immutable OS, but not focused on gaming all the time. Aurora has very cute set of wallpapers with recurring cartoon characters, which may sound insignificant, but it builds my connection to the distro. it's unbreakable and the updates are automatic, I don't have to worry about a thing, which I like very much. Very good quality and active discord server. I you like KDE and immutable OSes, you will feel like at home with Aurora Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 44.20260511 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-26 Country: United States Votes: 2 First time back on Linux after years away. I used Ubuntu, Mint, PCLinuxOS, Mepis and others back in the day. Spent 8 years on Mac OS X and plenty of time on Windows as well. Aurora has been my first attempt at daily driving Linux since the days when I didn't want to buy a Windows license just before Windows 10. When I first tried Aurora, I only had an older Nvidia card so I had to install Bazzite first for the legacy GPU support. I eventually switched GPUs and rebased to Aurora DX. I prefer KDE. I have turned this homebuilt i7 12700F (32 GB RAM, 8 GB RX580, 2 TB M.2 SSD) into a host. I run a Plex server and multiple local AI front ends. At first I thought the inability to write to the system would be a blocker but I think it has made it more reliable. All prior attempts at Linux eventually ended with a broken system, usually due to updates. Aurora updates automatically but I like running ujust update anyway. It puts the bootc image in at restart. I had one bad update a while ago but that was easy to roll back from. I just stayed on the previous version for a bit longer. After a few days I updated and everything was fine. I do run the "latest" branch, which is essentially a beta. Very stable. Highly recommended. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 17 reader reviews of Aurora...