Reader supplied reviews for AnduinOS Average rating 9.0 from 48 review(s) What are your thoughts on AnduinOS? 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: Rating:    out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: Version: 2.0.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-11-10 Country: Switzerland Votes: 1 I stumbled across Anduin OS by chance in a newspaper article. At first I thought, ‘Oh, yet another distro for Windows fans.’ But it’s been my working environment since version 2. The installation ISO is very compact at around 2 GB. The installation went smoothly. Even switching to Secure Boot afterwards was absolutely easy, as it’s supported by a wizard. With Ubuntu as its base, it’s technically up to date. And best of all, the support is brilliant and quick! I’d absolutely recommend it to beginners who simply want a Linux system that works. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.0.5 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-11-05 Country: France Votes: 0 Initially skeptical, I quickly came to appreciate the stability (derived from Ubuntu), the management of updates and upgrades, and the overall ease of use of this distro. I am particularly fond of the custom-built control panel, the driver center (including secure boot config). Finally, system snapshot management (available only with Btrfs) provides a welcome layer of safety for those who, like me, spend all day tinkering. I have not found an equivalent to date. The only drawback is that the online documentation is highly technical but not very precise regarding what steps to take; its search engine is inconsistent. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.0.5 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-10-31 Country: United States Votes: 3 This was the distro that *took* for me, and let me migrate full-time away from my Win10 desktop. I have spent hours trying to get CachyOS to play nice but it felt like working without any guiderails and like there was always something underlying that I needed to know how to turn on or off ... I couldn't just trust LLM's to steer me to success. I hae a few machines running Linux Mint, and it's shiny but besides the skins I can't put my finger on where the experience is really different. I can't really fault or meaningfully complain about either of those distro's, and the problem probably lies with me as I've been tinkering and daily-driving Windows for the past 30+ years. But when I deployed AnduinOS things *clicked* in a way they hadn't been for me. I found the theming and the pathing for accomplishing things *disarming* and despite it being a relatively new distro and recent project, I was able to find instructions with those online spicy word-salad-calculators that are guzzling all our memory, and drive home whatever task I needed from my new computer environment because it doesn't stray too far from what daddy Ubuntu had crafted upstream. I finally have learned debian-based projects are more my speed, and that I can go back to being lazy. I do enjoy that linux has seven ways to do any one thing, and that at least three of them will make it work. AnduinOS has felt forgiving enough and clear enough and its underlying technologies are well-documented enough that I've been able to to adopt it and I'm considering how to deploy it for family members as Win11 continues to ... metastasize. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 48 reader reviews of AnduinOS...