Q4OS 6 Andromeda released

q4osteam · 2025-09-12 12:01

Q4OS 6 Andromeda stable has been released, see the announcement https://www.q4os.org/blog.html#news250912

theasmitkid · 2025-09-12 13:27

See what's new in Trinity compared to Q4OS 5 (which ran R14.1.1):

R14.1.2
R14.1.3
R14.1.4
R14.1.5

Last edited by theasmitkid (2025-09-19 10:33)

Germ · 2025-09-12 14:35

Should I try it on the old Acer I've had so much trouble with?

q4osteam · 2025-09-12 14:42

@Germ
Yes, this bug report is still active and open. We have not still received the hardware to test and cannot reproduce the issue on another hardware. So we cannot investigate further at this time. We are guessing that it is not fixed, but who knows.

If you try this and report, it might save us some time-consuming investigation. But again, we do not think this issue is fixed.

q4osteam · 2025-09-12 15:13

We can also encourage our Plasma users to try Debonaire visual theme, see an excerpt from the announcement:

We intentionally keep the Plasma desktop appearance as the stock one, however those who love Q4OS brand should switch to Q4OS's dedicated "Debonaire" theme in the system settings. It's a simple step and you get Q4OS stylish look-and-feel of your desktop session.

The Debonaire theme is installed by default, no additional setup is needed.

itsoulos · 2025-09-12 17:13

Excellent work team. It worked fine in a Tuxedo Pulse and I will install it later in Dell Precision with I9 processor. The only minor thing is that the "show virtual desktops" effect when you point your mouse in the upper left edge does not work well on my laptop. Any ideas?

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itsoulos · 2025-09-12 17:17

And here is an example of video recording in the following url
http://itsoulos.teiep.gr/OUTPUT.mp4

EBAL · 2025-09-12 22:04

Hi, I tested Q4OS 6 Trinity Beta and installed the Basic option on a test PC as the only OS. I noticed that the RAM usage after booting up and disabling un-needed autostart apps was around 500MB. Q4OS 5 was lower at around 350MB.

Wondering if the final release will have lower RAM usage than the Beta.

Thanks.

josek · 2025-09-12 23:07

Likewise, I also tried the Trinity and KDE Plasma versions, but both are using too much RAM.
Trinity is around 600 to 700 MB of RAM.
KDE Plasma is around 1.2 GB of RAM.
Actually, I'm still testing it for now.

Germ · 2025-09-12 23:38

q4osteam wrote:

@Germ
Yes, this bug report is still active and open. We have not still received the hardware to test and cannot reproduce the issue on another hardware. So we cannot investigate further at this time. We are guessing that it is not fixed, but who knows.
If you try this and report, it might save us some time-consuming investigation. But again, we do not think this issue is fixed.

OK. I'll give it a try and report back.

Edit: I installed it on a newer machine and it is running beautifully. Will give the old Acer a go tomorrow.

Last edited by Germ (2025-09-12 23:40)

q4osteam · 2025-09-13 00:00

@Germ
Thanks for the report

rbc · 2025-09-13 23:48

I just noticed the Andromeda release today. I installed it under KVM on Debian 13 off the live CD. It was a completely pain free install. The installer is great! I'll commit it to some hardware shortly and give it a more thorough work out.

bin · 2025-09-15 07:06

Just a quick note to say thanks for the little menu picker on the TDE install - neat!

Heind · 2025-09-20 09:51

TDE 14.1.5 isn't released yet, right? How and why is it used in 6.1?

q4osteam · 2025-09-20 10:21

14.1.5 is the preliminary stable version. We compared the source code with version 14.1.4, examined the differences and the patches that we considered non-transparent or insecure have been excluded. This version has been extensively tested and passed our QA.

bin · 2025-10-10 09:45

One thing I have definitely noticed on my Macbook Air 7,2 is that power management is vastly improved in Plasma. WIth Aquarius it would flatten the battery in about 45 minutes - been running for nearly 3 hours and still plenty of juice left. Oh and it is the original battery too. Sleep is working properly rather than just blanking the screen as swell.
All round a big improvement - thanks guys!

Rademes · 2025-10-14 10:30

Thank You Q4OS Team for this great distro!
Q4OS 6.1 Andromeda Trinity works very well on my very old PC with 775 socket Intel Core Quad Q9550 processor, which was released in year 2006!
I really was thinking of throwing this old PC to the trash can.
The only thing is, I can not install proprietary NVIDIA driver on this PC. Only nouveau driver can be used. Maybe because of the old GT710 graphics card?

System:
  Kernel: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.5 Distro: Q4OS 6.1.3-deb13u1
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: G41M-Combo v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Award v: FB date: 10/25/2012
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
    L2: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2000 min/max: 2000/2834 cores: 1: 2000 2: 2000 3: 2000
    4: 2000
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] driver: nouveau v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: N/A
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 renderer: NV106
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 drivers: llvmpipe surfaces: xcb,xlib
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.48+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: aRts v: 1.5.10 status: active
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet driver: atl1c
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 13.89 GiB (6.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT250MX500SSD1 size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 219.88 GiB used: 13.89 GiB (6.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.42 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 32.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 682 fan-2: 1268
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.83 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (31.5%)
  Processes: 204 Uptime: 49m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.38

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q4osteam · 2025-10-14 10:36

Rademes wrote:

... Maybe because of the old GT710 graphics card?

Probably yes. You could check a possible driver with the command:
$ nvidia-detect

Rademes · 2025-10-14 10:40

denis@g41m-andromeda:~$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
Your card is only supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series, which is only available up to bookworm.
denis@g41m-andromeda:~$

nathanjhill · 2025-10-15 03:50

bin wrote:

One thing I have definitely noticed on my Macbook Air 7,2 is that power management is vastly improved in Plasma. WIth Aquarius it would flatten the battery in about 45 minutes - been running for nearly 3 hours and still plenty of juice left. Oh and it is the original battery too. Sleep is working properly rather than just blanking the screen as swell.
All round a big improvement - thanks guys!

This is interesting and good to hear! I've been tinkering a bit to try to get battery life in a really sweet spot on my 12" MacBook. Are you using TLP or just the built-in power management?

bin · 2025-10-15 07:25

Just out of the box.Plasma power profile about half way up the slider. Screen brightness 50%. Keyboard backlight 60%

Rademes · 2025-10-16 19:10

Unfortunatelly, I will be forced to downgrade to Q4OS 5.8 Aquarius. The reason is, there is no proprietary Nvidia drivers for my graphics card available in Andromeda. Without them I have to deal with sluggishness in scrolling, dragging files/folders, watching YouTube and other effects. nouveau driver is not good...

In all other aspects, Andromeda is a great distro!

Last edited by Rademes (2025-10-16 20:34)

q4osteam · 2025-10-17 09:35

Rademes wrote:

Unfortunatelly, I will be forced to downgrade to Q4OS 5.8 Aquarius. The reason is, there is no proprietary Nvidia drivers for my graphics card available in Andromeda. Without them I have to deal with sluggishness in scrolling, dragging files/folders, watching YouTube and other effects.

That's a shame. Are you experiencing these issues on Plasma or Trinity desktop ? Maybe configuring the Nouveau driver would resolve these issues, see
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/KernelM … eters.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nouveau ... .. something may be feasible

Nouveau driver should be pretty solid for most of hardware. Maybe these issues are not connected to video driver at all ?

theasmitkid · 2025-10-17 10:07

Ah i wanna downgrade too, these little issues like no horizontal scrolling, broken kdesktop/autostart, are hindering with my productivity a lot.. but i don't want to downgrade because new Trinity apps/optimizations are great, and even bluetooth and wifi perform a lot better in Q4OS 6

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