Q4OS

Reader supplied reviews for Q4OS Average rating 8.7 from 157 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Q4OS? 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: -- 5.74.123.162.71.8.80.5.29 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: 5.7 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-03-02 Votes: 3 Q4OS is a very lightweight and responsive Linux distribution, even on old machines. At the same time, it’s lightning-fast on new hardware, extremely responsive especially with TDE. I installed it on my main PC instead of Mint XFCE, and it’s a recommended switch if you’ve gained some experience with Linux. Regarding themes, I installed Darkonaire/Debonair, which are the most modern and acceptable options. If you prefer vintage themes, they’re available, but I don’t like them. In my opinion, there should be more modern themes that are selectable from a ready-to-use menu. Q4OS is a Linux distribution theoretically suitable for everyone, but I wouldn’t recommend it to an absolute Linux beginner. For those approaching Linux for the first time, I suggest Mint, Linux Lite, or Zorin OS. After gaining some practice with these distributions, you can try switching to Q4OS. Extremely stable and lightweight, it’s hard to find flaws in Q4OS. One potential downside might be the adjustments for themes, effects, and window appearance, there’s a bit of confusion in this area. I would’ve preferred all the general appearance settings grouped together in one place, perhaps in the control panel under a single entry. Instead, there are multiple ways to access these settings, and it’s not immediately clear what overrides what. It takes some time to figure out, but you get there eventually. Still, I’d prefer fewer options with less outdated and poorly supported themes. It’s evident that the aesthetic aspect needs some reorganization, eliminating overly old elements, unifying all settings under one entry, and using a menu with a selection logic that leaves no doubt about what’s being modified. Overall, stability gets a 10+ Responsiveness/lightness 10+ TDE/KDE theme 9 Ease of use 8 Market for installing developer-predefined programs 6. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.7 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-02-26 Votes: 12 This is a really good distribution. I got tired of Mxlinux when it was bloated and slow. Q4OS is really fast and stable. Installing programs is easy and the distribution is easy to configure to your liking. The scanner and printer were found right away. MXlinux has tools that make it easier to use, but they can also be installed on Q4OS. Installation instructions were found on the forum. Q40S is a very well developed system, it has no flaws and I have found no errors using it. It has beautiful plasma desktop with quick theme changer. I recommend trying this distribution. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.7 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-02-26 Votes: 2 Hello world ! I'm under Q4OS-5.7 right now.I use the TDE version.It is a very good DE which is underrated based on old KDE version.The TDE devs make an awesome job: it's strange that there is not a lot of distributions using this DE.So a big thank to Q4OS devs for that.At start up i have got about 425MB of ram used, according to htop. There is everything needed for a daily use in this os.All is running without problems.They've just added a theme called darkonair : it's a very beautiful dark theme with transparency. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 157 reader reviews of Q4OS...