Q4OS Linux 3.7 Testing DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Gary
I was unable to install the testing version (3.7) in VirtualBox. I tried three times. I have a fairly strong desktop computer. I gave it a 320 GB drive and 32 GB of ram. I was, however, able to install te current stable version (3.6) without any problems. It is a nice distribution, and is certainly lightweight. Having never seen KDE 3.5, I was pleasantly surprised by the interface. As I am one of those (contaminated) users of both Google Chrome and Dropbox, I had absolutely no problem with the included software :-)
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I was unable to install the testing version (3.7) in VirtualBox. I tried three times. I have a fairly strong desktop computer. I gave it a 320 GB drive and 32 GB of ram. I was, however, able to install te current stable version (3.6) without any problems. It is a nice distribution, and is certainly lightweight. Having never seen KDE 3.5, I was pleasantly surprised by the interface. As I am one of those (contaminated) users of both Google Chrome and Dropbox, I had absolutely no problem with the included software :-)
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eM-!3
As a Windows and Manjaro user I must say I really like the way Q4OS looks. Mainly their Q4OS_default and Wine_classic themes which are Windows look-a-likes. It's really a good choice for older people who might feel uncomfortable with Windows 8 tiles or Windows 10 desktop. That's the main reason why I'm following this distro. Also it's worth mentioning that it's easy to install Wine. So if there is an app from Windows that you need, Q4OS might be able to run it if you give it a try.
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As a Windows and Manjaro user I must say I really like the way Q4OS looks. Mainly their Q4OS_default and Wine_classic themes which are Windows look-a-likes. It's really a good choice for older people who might feel uncomfortable with Windows 8 tiles or Windows 10 desktop. That's the main reason why I'm following this distro. Also it's worth mentioning that it's easy to install Wine. So if there is an app from Windows that you need, Q4OS might be able to run it if you give it a try.
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Ron
Q4OS is so very stable -- on a lark, I decided back in late 2016 to put Q4OS Trinity 32-Bit on a dusty old Thinkpad T40(2004 vintage) which has 1G and a 20G Hard Disk. I loaded and ran perfectly and is still used 2 times a week as a print server with an pair of old Panasonic dot-matrix printer for invoicing and labels and as a fax server. The dot matrix is from '89. Doing my best to keep old and working harding chugging along. Works a treat!
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Q4OS is so very stable -- on a lark, I decided back in late 2016 to put Q4OS Trinity 32-Bit on a dusty old Thinkpad T40(2004 vintage) which has 1G and a 20G Hard Disk. I loaded and ran perfectly and is still used 2 times a week as a print server with an pair of old Panasonic dot-matrix printer for invoicing and labels and as a fax server. The dot matrix is from '89. Doing my best to keep old and working harding chugging along. Works a treat!
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learningbird
I agree. It is one of the gems in the Linux world , with the 32 bit full version cold booting to around 140/150 MB of RAM. It is one of the few decent and frugal ways to give life to older hardware. And yes, I know one could also use a Window Manager for a very frugal installation...but you don't expect common Joe to understand and deal with i3, Xmonad, Awesome??? :D
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I agree. It is one of the gems in the Linux world , with the 32 bit full version cold booting to around 140/150 MB of RAM. It is one of the few decent and frugal ways to give life to older hardware. And yes, I know one could also use a Window Manager for a very frugal installation...but you don't expect common Joe to understand and deal with i3, Xmonad, Awesome??? :D
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Sheriff
Whenever the Trinity DE is mentioned on r/Linux, someone mentions that the networking portion of Trinity hasn't been updated in quite some years, and is therefore a security risk for anyone who uses it. Is there any merit to that? Cause Trinity seems like a pretty darn nice DE, and would seemingly be a good fit for a Raspberry Pi.
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Whenever the Trinity DE is mentioned on r/Linux, someone mentions that the networking portion of Trinity hasn't been updated in quite some years, and is therefore a security risk for anyone who uses it. Is there any merit to that? Cause Trinity seems like a pretty darn nice DE, and would seemingly be a good fit for a Raspberry Pi.
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Big
This is nice. I'm looking for a replacement for Lubuntu which is just the most boring thing I've ever put on a computer, although it runs very nicely on my IBM X41 Tablet. I use for that 13 year old thing work every single day. Q4 looks like a really good possibility. Is the Trinity desktop lighter than Q4's other one?
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This is nice. I'm looking for a replacement for Lubuntu which is just the most boring thing I've ever put on a computer, although it runs very nicely on my IBM X41 Tablet. I use for that 13 year old thing work every single day. Q4 looks like a really good possibility. Is the Trinity desktop lighter than Q4's other one?
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Daniel
I am a HUGE fan of Q4OS and have been running this OS for the past 4-5 years or so. It has been stable, fast and just awesome. Lately I have been running the full testing off USB because the PC will install, but not boot to an internal drive. I would recommend this for sure. Thank you for the review.
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I am a HUGE fan of Q4OS and have been running this OS for the past 4-5 years or so. It has been stable, fast and just awesome. Lately I have been running the full testing off USB because the PC will install, but not boot to an internal drive. I would recommend this for sure. Thank you for the review.
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LLORITO,
Hi DT, I noticed there was a button for Proprietary Codecs in the Welcome Screen, but how do potential users get Proprietary Drviers? Also, if I were to install this on a laptop with 16:9 aspect ratio, 1920x1080 screen resolution, what's the value should I set the DPI to?
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Hi DT, I noticed there was a button for Proprietary Codecs in the Welcome Screen, but how do potential users get Proprietary Drviers? Also, if I were to install this on a laptop with 16:9 aspect ratio, 1920x1080 screen resolution, what's the value should I set the DPI to?
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itech
KDE < 4 = Linux's only truly kool desktop environment. I moved from slackware to windows because kde 3 ended. This week's Q4OS 3.13 LTS looks like the best yet, although I already managed to bring it to its knees trying to make that nvidia ion 2 chip work...
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KDE < 4 = Linux's only truly kool desktop environment. I moved from slackware to windows because kde 3 ended. This week's Q4OS 3.13 LTS looks like the best yet, although I already managed to bring it to its knees trying to make that nvidia ion 2 chip work...
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Martin
The preview actually works, it's just that you clicked on an svg file and it prefers to show the source code of the vector image rather than compiling it to bitmap and then showing the bitmap. Which would be kind of more useful sadly doesn't work that way.
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The preview actually works, it's just that you clicked on an svg file and it prefers to show the source code of the vector image rather than compiling it to bitmap and then showing the bitmap. Which would be kind of more useful sadly doesn't work that way.
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