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Mr.Mark

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Registered: 2016-02-03

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Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

I inherited my sons Asus laptop. It currently has windows 10 on it however it has a lot of problems. I ordered a new hard drive and my question is what do I need to do to get Q4OS on a blank hard drive? Is there anything special I'll need to do?

Dai_trying

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Registered: 2015-12-14

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

Nothing special at all, if you are installing to a fresh hdd (or SSD) you can let the installer take care of everything and your system should be up and running in no time. Until Centaurus was released you had to check some things like secure boot and fast boot options in the BIIOS/UEFI settings, but now it can handle most configurations OOTB.

Mr.Mark

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

I am having a problem within the bios screen getting this laptop setup to boot from the disc. I don’t recognize the names of anything in this ASUS screen. It doesn’t have simple boot order names. I’m stuck. Any ideas?

Last edited by Mr.Mark (2019-12-13 12:30)

Dai_trying

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

If you could post a screenshot we might be able to help, you will need to use an external hosting site (like imgur or similar) and the paste a link here that might enable us to offer some suggestions.

As a general rule of thumb look for boot options and specifically boot order and select the usb device to the top of the list, if it a UEFI system then you might need to have the usb stick inserted before you enter the BIOS/UEFI setup screen, and sometimes you can use F12 when starting the machine to get a boot menu to select the usb as boot device.

Mr.Mark

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

That was the ticket! All of the ASUS videos were showing things to enable in the bios screen that weren’t showing in my bios screen. I had to enable UEFI boot and have the matshashita dvd drive as the lead. I actually just installed Centaurus Plasma and it looks pretty sweet! It’s doing it’s desktop profiler thing right now so I’ll check it in the morning.

Dai_trying

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

That's great, I would imagine the rest to be "plain sailing".

Mr.Mark

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

Looks great! Q4OS is the best hands down! How do I disable sleep mode and always asking for my password? And are there any desktop backgrounds with mountains and such? I will not mention that "other" OS!

Dai_trying

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From: UK

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

Login password can be made automatic from the welcome screen (if you cancelled it press Alt+F and start typing welcome and select welcome-screen.exu and click run) Use the Set AutoLogin button

I always disable sleep/suspend/hibernate as soon as I install Q4OS (or any other distro) as bootup times are so fast now that it seems pointles not to have a complete fresh system every time I use it, simply right click the desktop and select Configure desktop -> Screen Saver and uncheck Start automatically and it should always be on. There are more options in TDEPowerSave but I have found disabling the screensaver usually prevents sleep and hibernation too.

deanr

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From: Poland

Registered: 2019-09-07

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

Looks great! Q4OS is the best hands down!

Agree. I'm loving it

Mr.Mark

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

I love Q4OS! However I find that I’m more partial to the TDE! Old habits die hard I guess!

DavidB

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From: Saskatchewan, Canada

Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

I love Q4OS! However I find that I’m more partial to the TDE! Old habits die hard I guess!

Yup, TDE is my preferred desktop, too.  Glad to hear you're enjoying Q4OS!

Last edited by DavidB (2019-12-23 06:01)

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crosscourt

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Re: Installing Q4OS Asus Laptop Fresh Install

The nice thing is we have something for everybody. Ive always been more a KDE fan but TDE attracted me because of its KDE 3 appearance originally. I like the Q4OS KDE version particularly for the added perks over straight Debian 10.

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