VailuxOS

Reader supplied reviews for VailuxOS Average rating 7.8 from 5 review(s) Version: 1.6.0.1 Rating: 5 Date: 2026-02-04 Votes: 0 The concept behind VailuxOS is good and the devs seem to engage well in the forum but even the latest release is riddled with bugs. To add a firewall rule for KDE Connect for instance you have to enter your root password no less than 4 times and even then after an initial connection it fails with a daemon error popups for which appear every time you touch your phone, even just swiping the screen. Certain items installed using the software center such as Haruna, Kpat and KMahjongg don’t launch and from a terminal show a shared libraries error so it’s necessary to install the Flatpak versions instead. KCalc is shown as installed but doesn’t appear in the menu nor will it launch from a terminal. In this case removing and reinstalling fixes it. It’s just endless and a beta grade release at best. Version: 1.6 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-14 Votes: 1 I think Vailux OS is a good distribution. I have tested many distros such as Arch, Manjaro, Debian, MX Linux, and many more. Personally, I never really liked the design of most of them. Vailux OS may look similar to Windows, but it still has the advantages of Linux, such as better privacy, many customization options, and more control over the system. That is exactly why Linux is not the same as Windows, even if a distribution looks similar. The distribution was also quite easy to set up and use. Version: 1.6 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-01-09 Votes: 5 I really do wonder sometimes how some of those who post here actually ‘test’ what they post about. I was initially skeptical of VailuxOS since we already have Zorin and others well established for targeting Windows migrants and Q4OS for a streamlined version of Debian but I was quite surprised. Just to counter a few of the other reports, the KDE desktop is in no way ‘fixed’. Yes it has some dedicated customizations as per pretty much every other distro but these can be changed quickly and easily via system settings. In fact to my knowledge the only KDE distro that does ‘fix’ the settings unless you make some manual changes is the ALT KWorkstation. Next up after install as again with most other distros you will still need to configure your keyboard layout despite what you might already have selected in Calamares. Snap is present in Discover but is not enabled by default as reports by another user. Lastly with German being their main language this is what appears when you launch Firefox. It takes 5 seconds to change it from the Firefox settings. To counter one more statement it is no longer a valid argument to list KDE Plasma6 as ‘resource hungry’ when comparing it with Xfce. Yes the latter is faster (for some operations) and does use less resources but the differential is nowhere near as great as it once was. My fully installed VailuxOS uses 2G RAM with my standard background apps running which makes it suitable for all modern hardware and the majority of the older stuff other than budget notebooks. I purposely installed it on an 8 years old Intel NUC7CJYH with Celeron J4005 to prove the point. I always appreciate the effort developers put into making the transition from Windows to Linux easier but have never been convinced of the real logic for it. Whatever you do with any version of Linux it can never be like Windows. Also most users who had never seen an Android smartphone or TV manage soon enough to understand how to work it and a Linux PC or notebook experience will be no different. That apart would I recommend VailuxOS for another reason and the answer is most definitely yes. Considering how many distros come and go in a short space of time, most of these have single developers whereas VailuxOS has a complete team comprising 5 contributors. Next they’ve understood that most Linux users like to ‘own’ their installation with a different custom layout to that on which it might be based. In this regard you get a well designed login screen and a choice of custom wallpapers. IMO this is one of the best Debian based distros to be released for some time. See all 5 reader reviews of VailuxOS...