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Welcome to iDeal OS.
iDeal OS is a computer operating system, a custom "respin" based on the the powerful distributions of MX Linux and Debian, with the best privacy and security settings enabled by default.
The main goals of iDeal OS are privacy and security: you can surf, shop, trade and bank online with complete peace of mind, without annoying ads, tracking, logging, bugs, viruses or unwanted disclosure of personal information.
iDeal OS is available in two different editions:
- Emerald Edition is designed to give you the best applications for your everyday computing needs.
A friendly desktop experience for everyone, completely free to download and use.
- the Diamond Edition of iDeal OS is available as a paid customization service.
It allows you to customize the operating system to your specific needs.
Choose the applications and software tools that best suit your workflow, and our team will prepare a fully tailored ISO ready to download and install.
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Features
- iDeal OS is a computer operating system with the best privacy and security settings enabled by default.
- Featured: KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.
- Featured: hardened default settings in the browser, email client and AppArmor profiles, to help keep you safe while online.
- Featured: 'iDeal DNS Switcher', an original utility developed in-house that allows you to switch between 18 DNS configurations from 10 privacy-oriented providers with the click of a button.
- iDeal OS Emerald Edition is designed to give you the best applications for your everyday computing needs. A friendly desktop experience for everyone, completely free to download and use.
- The Diamond Edition of iDeal OS is available as a paid customization service. It allows you to customize the operating system to your specific needs by choosing the applications and software tools that best suit your workflow: our team will prepare a fully tailored ISO, ready to download and install. Empowering entrepreneurs, freelancers, programmers, web designers, content creators, artists, YouTubers, etc.
- Thousands of free applications are available to help you personalize your computer even more: welcome to the world of Linux!
- Before deciding to install, you can test iDeal OS in live mode without modifying your current operating system.
- iDeal OS Emerald Edition is completely free and fully functional. Installation is simple and straightforward.
- iDeal OS is distributed as convenient and ready-to-use packages for your everyday computing needs, whether personal or professional.
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Absolute great distro! Never experienced this privacy out of the box , sysV . Plasma on wayland . Hybridgraphics detection works great! Gaming works fine ! New life for my iMac2017 and Notebooks. Thank you very much!Reply from iDeal OSPosted 2026-03-27
Thank you, Mr. Koenigsberger, for your kind and encouraging words! -
With this release having a commercial element to it, it is required you comply fully with the trademark restrictions associated with the MX Linux name. On running your QSI, the first block identifies the OS with the following information "Distro: MX-23.4_x64 Libretto" This may be a breach of the fair use license, please check carefully and adjust as needed.Reply from iDeal OSPosted 2025-01-10
Thank you for your report. I still have a lot to learn... -
I use MX Linux (XFCE version) as my daily driver and have done for several years now, so I was curious to see what this respin had to offer. Turns out not a lot as it froze on starting KDE plasma screen and needed a hard reset to get out of it. it's a fairly new PC I built myself so the extra requirements of KDE shouldn't have been an issue. It was via Ventoy which shouldn't have been a problem either as it successfully boots original MX Linux and other respins I've tried before on it. To satisfy my own curiosity I'm going to download the official KDE version and try that......... Watch this space! Ok, original KDE version works fine in UEFI boot mode and yours works in standard non UEFI mode only, but at least I got to see it! I tried again in UEFI mode - same freeze up requiring a hard reset.Reply from iDeal OSPosted 2025-01-07
iDeal OS has been proven to boot effectively (in both UEFI and legacy modes, secure boot off) and run on a dozen different hardware configurations once the USB key is prepared using balenaEtcher, Rufus or the original MX Live USB Maker applications. Ventoy has not been tested. The only hardware problem encountered so far is that HP computers with B&O speakers do not emit any sound: a note about this can be found on the website. Anyway, thanks for your comments, I will take a look at Ventoy and consider it for testing for the next release. -
can't find the difference between MXLinux and this distribution apart from the desktop change to KDE, which consumes more resources, and changing the DNS. Could you provide more details about what else has been changed?Reply from iDeal OSEdited 2025-01-06
Hello everyone, It is clearly stated that iDeal OS Emerald Edition is a custom respin of MX Linux. Various applications that come with it have been replaced: Thunderbird with Betterbird, Midnight Commander with Double Commander. Others have been removed: ktorrent, strawberry. Many have been added: asunder, HomeBank, KeePassXC, Kid3, FreeFileSync, PDFSam, UFW. Others have been integrated with more features and resources: more fonts available in LibreOffice and system-wide, more brushes in Gimp, Adblock in Firefox. It is a custom selection of applications for everyday computing tasks, made after the experience gained in more than 20 years as a Linux user. If you consider iDeal OS Diamond Edition, the list of default installed applications is longer, essentially turning your PC into a ready-to-use DAW, empowering entrepreneurs, freelancers, programmers, web designers, content creators, artists, YouTubers, etc. iDeal OS is developed and distributed in the hope that it will be functional and useful, without expecting it to be the ultimate solution, but a humble alternative to many other nice distributions out there.