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q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Q4OS on ARM hardware

There is a lot of ARM hardware out there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family . As Q4OS Trinity is really lightweight and at the same time full featured desktop, it's pretty feasible to use Q4OS on low powered ARM devices.

First you need to install one of these operating systems on your Arm device:
- Armbian 64bit https://www.armbian.com/
- Raspberry Pi OS 64bit https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/
- Debian https://www.debian.org/
- other Debian based Arm64 operating system

Once the OS is installed on the target device, just use the dedicated script to setup Q4OS,
see https://q4os.org/dqa017.html

Q4OS desktop on ARM devices runs fast and it's pretty snappy. Any feedback is appreciated

Last edited by q4osteam (2026-01-14 11:04)

andrew2325

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Registered: 2026-03-08

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Re: Q4OS on ARM hardware

I would like to help ya'll in anyway I am feasible of helping with supporting the original pi zero keeping xorg and number of older window managers and tools alive.  I'm not filfthy rich nor an engineer, but I have used Linux more than what is common the desktop.  I have taken a couple of programming classes.  I started using Linux around the year 2000.  Wayland uses too many resources for these little boards, and I wouldn't like to see the board discontinued because it isn't popular when there are so many productivity tools that work well on systems like these.  That is one of the reasons I wanted to use Linux in the first place, and use you know France fined Apple for trying to phase things out by intentionally making older iPhones slow with the newest updates.  There are too many ways big tech has done this, and more advanced technologies are definitely not a requirement for research and other types of productivity.  Too many websites that simply are libraries for universities seem to even be trying to phase too much technology out by adopting standards that are not truly necessary for reading documents.  RAM is more and more expensive and things like wayland use too much of it even on laptops like my Lenovo that has a Ryzen 7 in my opnion.  I prefer things like fluxbox and wmaker for things I typically do rather than desktop environments.  There are ways my knowledge is limited for sure, but I definitely appreciate that you would attemtp to keep ARM6 alive.