Reader supplied reviews for deepin Average rating 8.1 from 165 review(s) What are your thoughts on deepin? 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: Rating:    out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: Version: 25.2.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-10-05 Country: Ireland Votes: 23 I've never understood the indifference/ambivalence that Deepin tends to generate - right now, it's languishing around position 60 in Distrowatch's Top 100! I've had Deepin 25 installed since it was a release candidate (RC) and Deepin 23 for years before that. The RC started out a bit rough, as RC are expected to be I suppose, with big repository issues (imo), but all of that is in the rear view mirror at this stage. I consider Deepin's UI to be one of the nicest available. I was initially wary of its 'ummutability' aspect, and it triggering flashbacks to bad experiences of an Android tablet that seemed to resist all of my attempts to 'root' it. Thankfully, Deepin has shown none of this stubborness, and disabling immutable-mode is relatively easy. That said, this is it's default mode, so if like me, you've got the likes of Synaptic installed by default, be prepared to be prompted about immutable mode - though it still allows application installation via Synaptic! Apart from this, in use, there's hardly any other indication that immutable mode hinders usability. A couple of points about Deepin that I consider negatives. Like I mentioned, I had Deepin 23 installed for years before 25 came along, and before the arrival of 25 NC, it felt as if the platform had been abandoned, updates beiing at most, a yearly occurrence. The other thing I dislike, even with this brand spanking new Deepin 25, is its Debian-based libraries, which are invariably ' long in the tooth' - I've been trying my hand at 'vibe-coding', and I've found that apps developed on Mint 22.x, generally will not run on Deepin 25 because of 'outdated' libraries. That said, Deepin continues to improve, and as long as that continues, I will continue to use it! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.2.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-09-14 Country: Indonesia Votes: 17 I am new to Linux; I switched to Zorin 18.1 after Windows 10 stopped receiving security patches. I’ve been using it comfortably on an Acer Aspire Lite laptop (Intel i5, upgraded to 32GB RAM) ever since. However, about a month ago, I discovered another Linux distro called Deepin. I installed version 25.2.1 (which I later upgraded to 25.2.2) on an Acer Z3-451 laptop equipped with an AMD A8-7410 processor, AMD Radeon R5 Graphics, and 8GB of RAM. Deepin has a beautiful and attractive interface, though it started to feel a bit sluggish when I used it for browsing or working in VS Code. Disabling the visual effects helped quite a bit. Repository integration—such as with Flathub—works well. Overall, Deepin is a solid choice with a lovely, appealing look, and there is room for further improvement in the future. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.2.0 Rating: 6 Date: 2026-09-04 Country: Italy Votes: 4 I've been testing deepin occasionally, including its past incarnations, at least since the days when it was still derived from Ubuntu. Its visual design has always been outstanding, arguably one of the most polished desktop experiences in the Linux world. But when it comes to reliability and resource efficiency, well… that’s another story entirely. To run deepin smoothly, you genuinely need a huge machine. DDE is heavy by design, it loads multiple background services, uses a compositor that insists on full‑time transparency and animations, and keeps a large number of system daemons active even when idle. On an 8 GB machine, memory usage easily spikes above 1.5–2 GB right after login, and I/O latency increases because of deepin’s habit of duplicating system files for safety. The distro is also unusually demanding in terms of disk space. A default installation creates oversized partitions for backup and recovery, sometimes 20–30 GB each, plus a /boot partition that can exceed 2 GB. Add to that a large set of preinstalled applications, heavy Qt dependencies, and a filesystem layout that favors redundancy over efficiency, and you end up with a system partition of 93 GB. At that point, deepin feels like another Windows 11, except it has been this heavy long before Windows 11 even existed. My insistence on testing it depends solely on its eye‑candiness. It’s beautiful, no doubt, but beauty alone has never been, and will never be, enough to make it my primary system. If Linux was born from the need to resurrect old machines and make them usable again, I genuinely wonder why on Earth such a resource‑hungry Linux distro should exist; deepin is gorgeous but it’s a diva... demanding, capricious and absolutely unwilling to compromise. And considering the past controversies about deepin quietly sending analytics data to Chinese servers (later explained as “a misunderstanding” and promptly removed) one can’t help but smile at the pattern; a system that already consumes RAM, disk space, and CPU with remarkable enthusiasm once showed a similar enthusiasm for telemetry. The diva has a taste for data, too. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 165 reader reviews of deepin...