Trinity DE

In this video, I am going to install the Trinity DE on Arch Linux. Here you find the resources if you want to try this DE also on other distros.
Trinity DE: www.trinitydesktop.org/
Install Trinity: wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Categ...
Arch Wiki: wiki.archlinux.org/title/trinity
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[@rmcellig]

I LOVE using TDE. I'm currently using q4os. More videos regarding the TDE would be so nice. It's really underated. It's fast and efficient as well with tons of features!!!😀

[@ags_1905]

I completely agree. I have fond memories of KDE 3.5. The icons are colorful and very expressive compared to modern Plasma desktop.

[@giandujavettorello6184]

I love Q4OS with the Trinity desktop. 😉👍

[@Reverend-Rodger]

The functionality and style of XP type desktop environments was always good enough, anything more is just icing an already iced cake

[@Appalling68]

Thank you once again, Ermanno. I think what I value most about your content is you're constantly producing videos and concepts about things I previously did not know about. This video was totally interesting. You rock!

[@craigw4644]

Love learning something new. Never would have found it on my own. Thanks for sharing.

[@derekr54]

I cut my Linux teeth on KDE3.5 and Gnome 2,so it brings back memories for me watching the video of Trinity DE.

[@taidee]

Oh man, this brings back memories 😂, thank you Master Ermanno.

[@user-em2ld]

Very cool DE,i have tried it on debian,now i could try it on arch

[@9e0r63]

Oooh my god! Excellent for this video 👍🏼

[@khansufyan1049]

Thank you Ermanno sensi

[@menzokruizinga]

It’s looks really good 👍

[@sidlejinks1874]

thanks Ermanno, you are the best i shouldn't get rid of my lenovo x100e

[@drpainsjourney]

PLEASE: Any youtuber .... WAIT with your great voice, and speak FIRST when 5 sec. is gone. When we watch your great video, we ALWAYS have to stop the movie, and start all over doing to buffering. Else? Your are doing a fantastic great work!

[@eflinux]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@pabloperalta6254]

I think this enviroment is very intresting !!

[@benarcher372]

Interesting, lightweight and old-school! However, what was all the fiddling with update of pacman before being able to install? Is it safe adding signatures like that? Thanks Ermanno for yet another interesting video!

[@WolfRites]

It's only safe if you trust the repo.

[@nexusanphans3813]

It's safe. Just follow the instruction provided at Arch wiki.

[@ari-athbadminton0301]

I was not expecting to see a tutorial on how to fix the gpt keyring error, this issue would have been a deal breaker for most arch users who haven't got into the habit of checking the wiki.

[@abhisek801]

Hello. I recently found an error while booting arch. If I just boot it normally it says failed to load ldlinux.c32, press any key to continue.(if i press any key it reboots again to the same screen). And if I insert a bootable iso via pendrive then upon starting the calamares installer it says No partitions to install on. It doesnt detect my hdd. Help PLEASE

[@GooogleGoglee]

Hi Ermanno, thank you for this video I was checking the official arch linux guide and the process is completely different they ask you to build directly the packages Which wiki are you following exactly where can I retrive it? Also on Trinity DE homepage they refer you to the arch wiki

[@eflinux]

The link is in the video description: wiki.archlinux.org/title/trinity#Installation You can install from binaries or build from source, as written in the first paragraph.

[@joir2000]

Very interesting video! Do you know if Trinity is lighter than XFCE?

[@pidusredlah]

It is. Especially after their move to GTK3.

[@ShadowGD_OfficialYT]

@@pidusredlah Wait, Trinity is now based on GTK? But isn't it a fork of KDE 3, which is based on QT?

[@hantimagyar]

@@ShadowGD_OfficialYT XFCE moved, not TDE...

[@hantimagyar]

Much lighter. TDE is almost as light as LXDE but with much more features. XFCE nowadays is not light, even KDE needs less memory.

[@ari-athbadminton0301]

That's some sexy retro DE right there ! Is it possible you show us how to install Trinity DE on a debian12 OS ? The install command is returning an error.

[@mustafababdullah2485]

😂 I never thought I'd see old kde again does it have all the great system sounds? Definitely throw it in a VM the mastalgia is overbearing 😂 I loved kde years ago when Ms was having system sound wars with kde. Hands down kde won

[@user-qi5ho9rg8d]

Hey, Ermanno I have one question. I want to install Arch on my UEFI machine with systemd-boot boot manager. How big /boot partition should be considering future system updates and etc...? Thank you in advance!

[@eflinux]

I always go for 300M and never had a problem with it. Some distro recommend 512M.

[@Appalling68]

4:25 Sorry for the clueless question here. Why don't you have to type in the entire PGP key? Why do you start at 868?

[@GooogleGoglee]

I think because the 0x means hexadecimal and pacman can recognize it by matching the last 8 bytes. I think

[@eflinux]

I’m not an expert in pgp, but if I’m now mistaken that is the Key ID, and that’s what’s needed.

[@magsyboy63]

Interesting video. TDE is SO old-school but it's a very nice DE. Personally I find it too "Windows-like" but I did wonder what would happen if you chose the MacOS option? I suppose panel at top and perhaps a more Finder style file manager? I think the options are a bit clumsy and confusing, a bit like the Enlightenment DE. KDE4 was the same but I think that Plasma has finally made this better. I would be very tempted to try this DE for fun on a spare machine sometime (I am not a fan of VMs). Thanks for the video!

[@akshaymathur136]

yes, you get a top panel. install bagheera and you get an equivalent time mac look and feel.

[@chrisbirch2002]

silly mac user. computers are for actual people.

[@sc0or]

A strong smell of Mandrake 9.2 from my past )) My first GNU Linux, the first compilations, and that KDE... Not far from BBS and FidoNet

[@fernandobernardo6324]

And the Penguin Liberation Front packages

[@arijitkumarhaldar3197]

Mr. Ermanno...just a request...would you please tune the max volume of the intro jingle and your voice on the next video? Everytime I turn up my volume to hear you properly...and then the jingle starts...which is way louder

[@Crimson909]

You should make a gaming vid about gaming on Linx

[@mateuszkolbusz4115]

Please make this month arch install with EFISTUB

[@Doing_Time]

Nothing I've ever tried was as good as KDE 3.

[@josereales-mi6rm]

Hi how much resources it uses

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Trinity does have some live iso in a VM it doesn't matter which Iam running just to see the os I'm waiting for the download. Today is one of those days it is slow. We have an isp called Comcast and they do what they want despite laws 😂😂😂

[@act.13.41]

KDE 3.5 was awesome, then, with no choice, they gave us 4.0 and it was terrible.

[@akshaymathur136]

they also had no choice. Qt3 was EOL, and the future was Qt4. And Qt4 was not backwards compatible, and required coding effort to port Qt3 applications to QT4. KDE4 is essentially a QT4 re write of KDE3, and they many of the initial issues with KDE were because of QT as well. By the time of Qt5 (which is why KDE4 became KDE Plasma 5), these issues and bugs were fixed, the devs had listened to the feedback and the overall product was a lot more mature. FYI, Qt5 is code compatible (mostly) with Qt4. You don't need a rewrite like you did with Qt3 -> QT4 transition. Most of the QT4 apps will compile and run fine without any change against Qt5 libs. Similar is the Qt5 -> Qt6 transition.

[@tiagobovolin]

Hello Windows 95

[@Slysoft_]

Looks more like windows xp

[@darkerm76]

Looks like windows xp and 98 hybrid

[@biswajitkumar2594]

First here : BTW Great Video.

[@mayoiscool]

Why does it look like old KDE.

[@Algeriawindows69]

cuz it's a fork of kde 3

[@johanb.7869]

Font rendering is terrible.

[@ruhruhruhruhruheisjsij]

What happened to your face

[@HumblePee]

okay, but anybody need this?

[@eflinux]

Everyone's taste is different.

[@m1k3io]

100% yes. I love it.