RakuOS

Reader supplied reviews for RakuOS Average rating 9.4 from 5 review(s) What are your thoughts on RakuOS? 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: -- 2026.07.032026.04.22 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: 2026.07.03 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-07-10 Country: United States Votes: 0 I absolutely love the hybrid concept. I get a stable atomic base while I can install rpms without rebooting. I like that I can manage everything in one place at the RakuOS software center as well. I can even manage distroboxes from the RakuOS software center as well. RakuOS also does a good job keeping the overlayed packages (ones that the user installs) and the base system separated as well. I am able to update everything from the RakuOS software center as well. I would love to see the rakuos command be separated into rakuos for managing the system and rakupkg for managing the packages. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.07.03 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-07-08 Country: United States Votes: 0 Having the hybrid aspect to the operating system allows me to install the classic software I need that can't be found in flatpak. And this is a very gamer friendly distro which speaks to my core purpose of choosing my distro. Thanks to the welcome screen, I was able to start gaming within minutes of installing it on my computer. The built-in Nvidia driver works great, and I was gaming on my 2k setup with no hiccups. Please join the Discord channel if you need further help. The community is pretty amazing. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.06.02 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-06-10 Country: Thailand Votes: 3 My use case is multiple Chromebooks or Linux devices running most of the time web based apps, so I can easily switch between devices. I like Chromebook because of it's simplicity in maintenance. Lately you see more of these immutable atomic Linux distro's that behave similarly like chromebooks. Right now I am testing a few of these bare metal on my laptops: Bazzite, AerynOS and Origami Linux. Yesterday I moved Origami Linux to RakuOS, because Origami Linux merged into RakuOS. Both Bazzite and RakuOS are derivatives from Fedora atomic. Very stable, but rpm package installs take more time and requires a reboot. Bazzite tries to overcome this with distrobox and homebrew. RakuOS is unique, that it uses a writable overlay filesystem for it's packages. So you install rpm packages using "rakuos install" faster and without reboots. I like this concept a lot. Drawback is that booting will take a few seconds longer to setup the overlay system. The desktop I use is Cosmic. Many complain about bugs. Yes there are a few, but I can live with them. So RakuOS has the advantages of an immutable OS, with a rpm packages layer, which is faster to update and maintain without reboots, but is not immutable. And it uses the Fedora atomic infrastructure and the dnf/rpm repository base. Compare this to AerynOS, which is atomic but not immutable. It's faster because the package layer is writable as the rest of the operating system. And it uses a new package manager moss to implement the atomicity, however the repository base is quite shallow compared to dnf/rpm. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 5 reader reviews of RakuOS...