PrismLinux

Reader supplied reviews for PrismLinux Average rating 7.8 from 8 review(s) What are your thoughts on PrismLinux? 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: -- 2026.08.15 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: 2026.05.05 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-05-21 Country: United States Votes: 6 Hardware: i7-6850k 128GB DDR4 ASRock X99 WS 10G nVidia Titan XP 2TB Samsung Evo Plus 970 Sonnettech Dual U.2 PCIe card w/ 2 x Micron 9200 U.2 drives 49" Samsung 4K Pros: Arch based Choice of kernels (2 performance included, newer) Easy install Choice of HDD file system Cons: nVidia drivers did not auto install, even after initial reboot This distro shows great promise if they can continue with their core philosophy. It is fast, really fast. Had no hardware detection issues, including the after market wifi card (Intel 8260 based if memory serves). I always evaluate ANY Arch based distro on getting VMWare to work without HOURS and HOURS of work. This one passed. Install from Chaotic-AUR went off without any issues. Had to manually enable the vmware networking and usb and start them as they didn't enable/start after reboot. Would recommend with high confidence others would enjoy it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.03.04 Rating: 4 Date: 2026-03-08 Country: United States Votes: 1 I decided to try it since it seems like a fairly straightforward Arch install with a good selection of options for DE/WM. I booted it up and unfortunately it did not detect my first Wi-Fi adapter despite other distros being able to utilize it (for example EndeavourOS). Once I switched to another adapter it detected and let me connect saying I was ready to go. I went through the installer, selected COSMIC, all the apps I needed and hit install. Everything went as expected but like another user, once I rebooted into the desktop none of the apps (including the terminal) were installed. Trying a second time, this time connected to a RJ-45 connection, thinking maybe having an internet connection right off the bat would work, but no. Same problem. Trying a third time, thinking maybe I choose a different kernel or DE to see if that changed anything, the installer didn't start. So... maybe cook it a little longer? I love the install process and wish it worked! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.03.04 Rating: 6 Date: 2026-03-08 Country: United Kingdom Votes: 0 I gave this new distro a try as a VirtualBox guest, but could not get it to boot to the installer at all., regardless of different options tried. To be fair to the maintainers, they do providegood instructions for installing in Gnome Boxes etc instead. So I went ahead and installed instead on a spare older HP 840 G3 laptop that runs just about any distro without any problems. The installer was nice and slick and different from the usual Calamares fare. I chose the Cosmic desktop, and selected a few extra apps such as Firefox and an office suite. Post install the boot up was fine, but weirdly not everything selected had been installed. There was no terminal app, not even the cosmic terminal, no Firefox etc. It was easy enough to drop out of Cosmic and add a few missing essentials via pacman to get going. Installing from the aur was also simple enough. On the positive side, this is a really lightweight Cosmic system now. The RAM usage and number of running tasks are both commendably low. It's a promising and lean start, for me this one is worth keeping an eye o , but the installation quirks need to be resolved. It's also a little difficult to see the point of this distro over a clean vanilla Arch install if that's what you're after. Other DEs they offer may be more customised though. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of PrismLinux...