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AnduinOS


Last Update: 2026-02-08 01:17 UTC

AnduinOS is an Ubuntu-based distribution which provides a GNOME desktop which has been themed and styled to resemble Windows 11. The project provides a smaller ISO file than its parent with each supported language split into a separate ISO. Snap support, which is included in Ubuntu, has been removed from AnduinOS.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 11 (872), 6 months: 12 (750), 3 months: 15 (652), 4 weeks: 18 (573), 1 week: 24 (564)

Average visitor rating: 8.8/10 from 39 review(s).

AnduinOS Summary
Distribution AnduinOS
Home Page https://www.anduinos.com/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://github.com/Anduin2017/AnduinOS/discussions
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://docs.anduinos.com/
Screenshots https://www.anduinos.com/ • DistroWatch Gallery
Screencasts
Download Mirrors https://download.anduinos.com/ • DistroWatch Torrent Archive
Bug Tracker https://github.com/Anduin2017/AnduinOS/issues
Related Websites  
Reviews 1.x: FOSS Force • Tom's Hardware • DistroWatch
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2025-10-17: Distribution Release: AnduinOS 1.4.0
 • 2025-04-30: Distribution Release: AnduinOS 1.3.0
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Feature 1.4.2 1.3.9 1.2.6 1.1.12 1.0.7
Release Date 2026-01-04 2026-01-04 2025-06-24 2026-01-04 2025-03-23
End Of Life       2029-04 2027-04
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 2000-2100 1900-2000 1800-1900 1800-1900 1700-1800
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO
Installation Ubiquity Ubiquity Ubiquity Ubiquity Ubiquity
Default Desktop GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME
Default Browser Firefox ESR Firefox Firefox Firefox Firefox
Package Format deb deb deb deb deb
Package Management          
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite -- -- -- -- --
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4
Multilingual          
Full Package List 1.4.2 1.3.9 1.2.6 1.1.12 1.0.7
Package 1.4.2 1.3.9 1.2.6 1.1.12 1.0.7
alsa-lib (1.2.15.3) 1.2.14 1.2.13 1.2.12 1.2.11 1.2.6
amdgpu (25.0.0) -- -- -- -- 22.0.0
apparmor (5.0.0) 5.0.0alpha1 4.1.0beta5 4.1.0beta1 4.0.1 3.0.4
apt (3.3.1) 3.1.6 3.0.0 2.9.8 2.8.3 2.4.13
bash (5.3) 5.2.37 5.2.37 5.2.32 5.2.21 5.1
bind (9.20.23) -- -- -- -- --
chromium (148.0.7778.167) -- -- -- -- --
cinnamon (6.6.8) -- -- -- -- --
cups (2.4.19) 2.4.12 2.4.12 2.4.10 2.4.7 2.4.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.4) 1.47.2 1.47.2 1.47.1 1.47.0 1.46.5
ffmpeg (8.1.1) -- -- -- -- --
firefox (151.0) 140.6.0 146.0.1 136.0.4 146.0.1 136.0.2
flatpak (1.16.6) 1.16.1 1.16.0 -- -- --
freetype (2.14.3) 2.13.3 2.13.3 2.13.3 2.13.2 2.11.1
gcc (16.1.0) 15.2.0 14.2.0 14.2.0 13.3.0 11.4.0
gimp (3.2.4) -- -- -- -- --
git (2.54.0) 2.51.0 2.48.1 2.45.2 2.43.0 2.34.1
glibc (2.43) 2.41 2.41 2.40 2.39 2.35
gnome-shell (50.1) 49.0 48.0 47.0 46.0 42.9
grub (2.14) 2.14git 2.12 2.12 2.12 2.06
gtk (4.22.4) 4.20.1 4.18.5 4.16.3 4.14.2 4.6.9
httpd (2.4.67) -- -- -- -- --
inkscape (1.4.4) -- -- -- -- --
kmod (34.2) 34.2 33 31 31 29
krita (6.0.1) -- -- -- -- --
LibreOffice (26.2.3) -- -- -- -- --
Package 1.4.2 1.3.9 1.2.6 1.1.12 1.0.7
libselinux (3.10) 3.7 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.3
linux (7.0.9) 6.17 6.14 6.11 6.14 6.8
mariadb (12.2.2) -- -- -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.28.2) -- -- -- -- --
mesa (26.1.1) 25.2.3 25.0.7 24.2.8 25.0.7 23.2.1
mysql (9.7.0) -- -- -- -- --
nautilus (50.1) 49.0 48.0 47.0 46.4 42.6
NVIDIA (595.71.05) -- -- -- -- --
openjdk (26.0.1) -- -- -- -- --
openssh (10.3p1) 10.0p1 9.9p1 9.7p1 9.6p1 8.9p1
openssl (4.0.0) 3.5.3 3.4.1 3.3.1 3.0.13 3.0.2
perl (5.42.2) 5.40.1 5.40.1 5.38.2 5.38.2 5.34.0
php (8.5.6) -- -- -- -- --
plasma-desktop (6.6.5) -- -- -- -- --
postfix (3.11.3) -- -- -- -- --
postgresql (18.4) -- -- -- -- --
Python (3.14.5) 3.13.7 3.13.3 3.12.7 3.12.3 3.10.12
qt (6.11.1) -- -- -- -- --
samba (4.24.2) -- -- -- -- --
systemd (260.1) 257.9 257.4 256.5 255.4 249.11
thunderbird (151.0) -- -- -- -- --
vim (9.2) 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.1 8.2
vlc (3.0.23) -- -- -- -- --
wayland (1.25.0) 1.24.0 1.23.1 1.23.0 1.22.0 --
xfdesktop (4.20.2) -- -- -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.22) 21.1.18 21.1.16 21.1.13 21.1.12 21.1.4

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Version: 1.4.2
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-14
Country: Portugal
Votes: 4

É uma distro do "camano".

Há algum tempo que esperava que aparecesse algo no mundo Linux com o bom gosto do AnduinOS. Quase tudo tem um excelente aspeto, um GNOME bem personalizado onde quase tudo funciona como esperado.
Tenho muito pouco a dizer contra e, o que realmente aponto como negativo, acredito que em versões futuras será removido ou simplesmente esquecido.
É uma distro limpa, bonita e incrivelmente estável. Acredito que as fundações Debian/Ubuntu são, em grande parte, responsáveis pelo sucesso do sistema, claro, sem nunca menosprezar o fantástico trabalho de Anduin Xue.

Atualmente, tenho 6 PCs (com utilizadores diferentes) a correr AnduinOS e, a menos que algo corra muito mal, não pretendo mudar tão cedo.




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Version: 1.4.2
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-03-23
Country: United States
Votes: 0


 I've been using this for a while, maybe a few months and it's really nice to use, except for the default programs and settings, it's easy to remove them but when you daily drive AnduinOS and need to not have those default programs every time you start it then it's an annoyance, I'm probably gonna make a fork of AnduinOS just to fix these problems for myself but yeah it's pretty usable and nice.

I like the flatpak support and the support that comes with this being based on Ubuntu.

It's very bug free unless you do some outlandish crap to destroy your system


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Version: 1.4.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2026-03-01
Country: France
Votes: 5


 Adepte de Linux depuis la Mandrake 8.0 (traktopell), j'ai utilisé, ensuite, la Fedora (Core 2 à l'époque:-D).

Au fil des années et de mes besoins, j'ai installé nombre de distributions (dont la SME Server).

Je suis venu à AnduinOS car je cherchais un OS qui soit à la fois léger et stable pour fonctionner aisément sur des ordinateurs
portables d'ancienne génération.

Les distros dédiées "vieux coucou" n'ayant pas, à la fois, le bureau que je cherchais et, surtout, la rapidité souhaitée, j'ai trouvé qu'AnduinOS m'apportait le compromis parfait.

Seul petit problème (que j'ai réglé en parcourant les forums de la communauté Linux ;-) ): les GPU kabini sont très mal gérés (écran noir après un temps de fonctionnement).....Mais bon, je ne peux reprocher ce problème à AnduinOS car je l'ai rencontré sur d'autres distributions dont la MINT.....très probablement un firmware linux foireux :-D.

Bref, tout ça pour dire que AnduinOS tourne comme un charme sur des portables Toshiba, Asus et MSI de plus de 10 ans.

Le tout, sans puce TPM ;-).


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