ENux

Reader supplied reviews for ENux Average rating 9.8 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on ENux? 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: -- 5.5.3 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: 5.5.3 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-06-09 Country: Canada Votes: 1 TL;DR: This distro is perfect for intermediate-advanced power users. When I first learnt about ENux, it was from Distrowatch's Weekly Issue 1170, which they reviewed ENux 5.2.1. That version was uninstallable and wasn't ready for production purposes. Even though ENux 5.2.1 was unusable I liked the concept and I started to put an eye in it. After a while, the developer of ENux announced ENux 5.5.3. It had Bedrock Linux stratas pre-fetched and the promised package managers where in the live environment. That was the release where I gave ENux a shot. And oh boy was it good. I booted up the flashed ENux USB, and then got greeted with Bedrock Linux's init. There was only a single option that could be selected, which was the "enux stratum". I thought the claims were wrong until the init started enabling the pre-fetched stratas. I got greeted with the XFCE desktop environment, which looked pretty aesthetic and minimal. I tested out the package managers, and all of them were available and worked without any problems. After getting satisfied with the package managers, I started the installation of ENux. It was pretty straightforward, it asked for my disk to install, opened up cfdisk, which I handled the partitions there. Formatted my root and swap partition, bootstrapped ENux, installed packages, setup the username, its password, hostname and root password. Since I was using an EFI machine, it asked for my EFI partition, and it also formatted that nicely with fat 32. Then it handled the bootloader, initramfs /etc/fstab stuff. Now the final thing, Bedrock Linux hijack. The script wget'ed Bedrock Linux and auto-hijacked it. Then it enabled services and I rebooted. After booting to a fresh installation of ENux, I logged in and got presented with the ENux Welcomer. It asked what packages I wanted to install. I typed in gcc, g++, binutils and curl since I'm a developer. After it installed the packages it explained me what ENux is, and then started fetching the stratas and then installing the package managers. After that, it asked if I wanted to test a package manager, which I said no. Finally, it asked me if I want to install WingAI and ENux-AI which I said no to. Then it exited. The installation was pretty smooth, its pretty well built and tested nicely. I would recommend this distro for intermediate-advanced power users, who are looking for something different or want to use multiple Linux ecosystems at once. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.3.2 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-05-06 Country: United States Votes: 1 Almost perfect* exactly the way it is currently, I always boot the iso live so it remains almost perfect, hope the developer doesn't add or change anything, too many distros die a frothy bloated death. Since ENux auto installs support for 12 package managers with the implementation of Bedrock Linux, this allows for extreme experimention, if the user breaks the system the re-install of Enux is quick and simple. *Perfect is a minimal install that only boots to CLI, then executing appimages on a USB for everything else. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.3.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-22 Country: Türkiye Votes: 1 I installed ENux on my laptop, and so far the experience is so good. It's extremely lightweight, at only using less than 1 GB of RAM, and around 10 GBs of SSD space after all of the stratas and package managers have been installed. The thing about this distro that made me download it is the implementation of Bedrock Linux. From what I've heard integrating Bedrock Linux on a live environment is pretty difficult. The creator of ENux has posted on r/bedrocklinux 3 months ago on experimenting with Bedrock Linux on the live environment. They failed because awk couldn't be found on their setup, but I really liked how they pushed and improved this project. On that post, they've also mentioned that you need a proper installer for Bedrock Linux on the live environment. Guess the proper installer is the installer that ENux uses today. Also, the support for 12 package managers is pretty wild if you ask me. So yeah, you should try out ENux as soon as possible if you are a power-user Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of ENux...