LinuxHub Prime

Reader supplied reviews for LinuxHub Prime Average rating 8.7 from 3 review(s) What are your thoughts on LinuxHub Prime? 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: -- 2026.09.01 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: 2026.09.01 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-09-04 Country: Mexico Votes: 0 This distro lets you try several DEs & WMs pretty easily. Prime's Easy installer's fast & simple, just use Calamares if you need very specific configs. 1st time I tried Niri it crashed, but the newer daily build doesn't crash anymore. Still I see a problem, maybe on my end, but on a fesh booth system idles ~2.5Gb of RAM (Gnome or Plasma don't go that high), but maybe it's my old PC with only 3.81GB total RAM, Linux may aggressively fill free RAM with cache & slab, which Htop shows as "used" but is reclaimable (MAYBE). On a system with 16GB, that'd be invisible. On mine, it eats a big chunk of what's left. Anyway, it looks GREAT & it's super functional out of the box. Can't really use it in my old PC but I'll try it in my newest laptop. 1st time I tried Labwc, same, idled ~2.8Gb, but also got warning there were config issues & it was buggy, cursor & panel disappeared suddenly. Also, unlike Niri where I'm able to use my vertical screen, Labwc had 2 options for that, arandr & "Screen" but none even launched. Tried the new build 'cause Archbang's leaving Labwc for Mango makes this 1 the only Arch+Labwc option left, sadly although 2nd time showed no config errors &cursor & panel WORK, arandr still doesn't work & idle RAM's 3.48Gb. Still needs some polishing. I think something's wrong with Wayland's config. Could it be a lack of dedicated GPU & RAM tries to make up for it? maybe, but was able to run Archbang with very little RAM so I think there're memory leaks in Wayland. Hope they'll fix it 'cause this 1 looks promising. Tried installing Openbox twice, installer failed both times, puzzling. Awesome does it's name justice, lean & snappy, idles ~700Mb so it's a bit leaner than Endeavouros+LXQT & even looks cooler. Its only issue: panel's buggy when screen's vertical or when an item's supposed to show on status tray. It just needs some easy tint2 tinkering. I usually find BSPWM too barebones, but this' the best/most complete BSPWM ever, by far the most functional out of the box & idles ~550Mb so one of the leanest arch distros out there (Obarun's lighter but w/o systemd I can't use all my flatpaks + steeper learning curve) & liked it better then any i3. The panel is NOT buggy, this one just works. New life to a 20+yo Compaq Intel Atom w/ 4Gb of RAM. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.03.10 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-03-15 Country: United States Votes: 3 Asus B75M-A mobo, 16GiB of Memory, 1TiB HDD, Intel CPU & built-in GPU, i3300 4 core. Installed LinuxHub and liked the initial look and live setup. But, upon installing on bare metal I found some odd quirks. Gnome-disk-utility did not operate properly in Mate Desktop Environment along with a few other issues. From other articles I've been reading it may be a problem with the new kernels. It seems that LinuxHub has a lot to offer but needs to iron out the bug's a little longer IMHO. Good Luck to the developer, honestly, you have a good product going here. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.03.10 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-03-15 Country: Thailand Votes: 3 I was very impressed with the forethought in this distro. So many options to choose from but easy to understand. The install went smooth as well. Maybe not the distro for new users but for everyone else I could definitely recommend it. Some distro's just don't get the recognition that they deserve. It was not a fast install but not too slow either. Left and Right click options galore. I liked the choice of installers, like Calamari or Prime installer. You have many choices as to your preferred desktop environment. Pretty much something for everyone. It is arch based and comes from the USA. It is a rolling release distro. The forum for it looks nice and offers other distro support. They have 109 registered users. Spin it up in a virtual machine and take a look,, I think you might be impressed. Since I only tested it in a virtual machine, my take on it would not be the same as a bare metal install. A lot of thought and work went into this distro as most distro's. Was this review helpful? Yes No