A First Look At Q4OS 4.6 With The Plasma Desktop DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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CrazyThingsOnLinux
Hello DT, I find your review a little unfair as you miss to mention the initial ambition of the Q4OS team, which is to deliver a lightweight linux distribution that invites MS 9x- and XP-Windows users to emerge themselves into the linux world with only little hazzle and conversion pain, and that can run on pretty old hardware too. While TDE offered just that in the past, and so was the right choice to begin with, its succesor KDE plasma has meanwhile come a long way and can almost serve the same purposes, so switching the default desktop from one to other just makes perfect sense in my view. You still have both options to chose from. Second, the Q4OS welcome app is much more than a software manager or repository. It comes with a windows-like look-and-feel on purpose, and offers the newcomer a very easy and convenient way to chose and install a handfull of the most popular and useful applications that probably everybody wants to have on their PC. The selection the team made is really very good and if you don't want to use it, don't use it.
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Hello DT, I find your review a little unfair as you miss to mention the initial ambition of the Q4OS team, which is to deliver a lightweight linux distribution that invites MS 9x- and XP-Windows users to emerge themselves into the linux world with only little hazzle and conversion pain, and that can run on pretty old hardware too. While TDE offered just that in the past, and so was the right choice to begin with, its succesor KDE plasma has meanwhile come a long way and can almost serve the same purposes, so switching the default desktop from one to other just makes perfect sense in my view. You still have both options to chose from. Second, the Q4OS welcome app is much more than a software manager or repository. It comes with a windows-like look-and-feel on purpose, and offers the newcomer a very easy and convenient way to chose and install a handfull of the most popular and useful applications that probably everybody wants to have on their PC. The selection the team made is really very good and if you don't want to use it, don't use it.
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Dave
I evaluated 3.12 Q4OS plasma version maybe as a option besides Kubuntu . I plan to see how it compares to Kubuntu 20.04. The software center is Q4OS software app ( its very limited) not KDE.
When I was evaluating 3.12 release I used discover more than software center or I would install synaptic. Discovery would not find applications I know existed. This still could be a alternative to Kubuntu. Though I have a few friends with older computers that run Linux Mint which 200MB less ram idle. one is a Lenovo 57m and the other is thinkpad T410 with s SSD.
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I evaluated 3.12 Q4OS plasma version maybe as a option besides Kubuntu . I plan to see how it compares to Kubuntu 20.04. The software center is Q4OS software app ( its very limited) not KDE.
When I was evaluating 3.12 release I used discover more than software center or I would install synaptic. Discovery would not find applications I know existed. This still could be a alternative to Kubuntu. Though I have a few friends with older computers that run Linux Mint which 200MB less ram idle. one is a Lenovo 57m and the other is thinkpad T410 with s SSD.
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tjdo59gz1yxQnP
From my experience that I've tried and used several dozens of Linux distribution I think Q4OS Trinity desktop environment is the best one I've ever used on my ten years old or more computer.Due to amazingly light and smooth feeling in browsing by Firefox and few freezing in this OS,I am gradually fading my interest away in new Linux distros installing except Arch Linux,which I hesitate to install due to seeming difficulty in using CUI.
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From my experience that I've tried and used several dozens of Linux distribution I think Q4OS Trinity desktop environment is the best one I've ever used on my ten years old or more computer.Due to amazingly light and smooth feeling in browsing by Firefox and few freezing in this OS,I am gradually fading my interest away in new Linux distros installing except Arch Linux,which I hesitate to install due to seeming difficulty in using CUI.
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Roo
love your vids DT :) - just showing the commands zoomed in on the CLI helps me learn so much :) - swap file partition, i hate it! - an ssd has only so many writes,so a tiny partition on it will be written to all the time,kinda worries me a little = right or wrong?
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love your vids DT :) - just showing the commands zoomed in on the CLI helps me learn so much :) - swap file partition, i hate it! - an ssd has only so many writes,so a tiny partition on it will be written to all the time,kinda worries me a little = right or wrong?
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Acts
I loved KDE 3 and had my doubts about the switch to 4.0, but I wouldn't go back. Nowadays, KDE has so many configurable features. It can become your very own work of art in a functional desktop. If Windows had this ability, most users heads would explode.
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I loved KDE 3 and had my doubts about the switch to 4.0, but I wouldn't go back. Nowadays, KDE has so many configurable features. It can become your very own work of art in a functional desktop. If Windows had this ability, most users heads would explode.
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Konrad
Fun fact about konqueror the webbrowser: this is the father of apples safari!
(The apple engineers really screwed the KDE 3.x community a couple of times. With konqueror they even found a way to turn OS software into something quasi proprietary.)
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Fun fact about konqueror the webbrowser: this is the father of apples safari!
(The apple engineers really screwed the KDE 3.x community a couple of times. With konqueror they even found a way to turn OS software into something quasi proprietary.)
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tn5421
-DistroTube Clementine hasn't had an update release in 5 years despite receiving git commits consistently. I would highly recommend Strawberry over Clementine until Clementine gets a binary update, or build Clementine from source yourself.
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-DistroTube Clementine hasn't had an update release in 5 years despite receiving git commits consistently. I would highly recommend Strawberry over Clementine until Clementine gets a binary update, or build Clementine from source yourself.
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markmental666
This is a pretty cool distro now that its updated to be based on Debian 11. This is the only distro I know of that offers Trinity Desktop, its interesting to look at and reminds me a lot of Windows XP
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This is a pretty cool distro now that its updated to be based on Debian 11. This is the only distro I know of that offers Trinity Desktop, its interesting to look at and reminds me a lot of Windows XP
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Steven
Yes i have Q4OS on a 32bit Laptop ... and tried the Q4OS 4.6 on another Laptop ... But coming from using Solus 4.3, KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 i think keep Q4OS for the 32bit and slower systems for now...
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Yes i have Q4OS on a 32bit Laptop ... and tried the Q4OS 4.6 on another Laptop ... But coming from using Solus 4.3, KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 i think keep Q4OS for the 32bit and slower systems for now...
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Chulito
Ubuntu could offer a pure Debian-version with the intent to help Linux-nerds build their own distro. All they would have to do not add all that Ubuntu stuff, but just updated software.
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Ubuntu could offer a pure Debian-version with the intent to help Linux-nerds build their own distro. All they would have to do not add all that Ubuntu stuff, but just updated software.
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