Trinity Desktop Environment with Q4OS - Thinking differently in the long term?

Hey folks and welcome back. Today we are looking at Q4OS aka Gemini with Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE). What exactly is so amazing about Trinity and why it has such a lasting effect, all of that is now in the article. Stay tuned.
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[@BryanChance]

Trinity Desktop is better than the latest popular desktop environments today in terms of functionality, ease of use and low resource requirements.

[@Doing_Time]

Trinity rocks whether you're talking about a core 2 duo, athlon 64, celeron, i7, or ryzen. Easy enough to configure with a mouse. You can make it look like windows 2000 (most useful desktop setup ever), ijunk, or 10. You don't have to fiddle around with it when you have it the way you want it (first thing I'd do is get rid of that awful modern start menu they've included --> check the boxes on "classic" ordered by "categories"). If you've just got to have eye candy, it does support transparency (which is sometimes actually useful when all your monitors are clogged up with VSCode and you need to float a few things around...) and smooth edges (second thing I disable on any install) and transition candy (you know, sliding/rolling icons and junk = first thing I disable on any install)

[@thomaseliason8376]

I'm on a slow i7 and it runs great. This is a wonderful OS which you can configure to look however you want. Mine's kind of hybrid XP/98 but with a few modern touches like transparent taskbar, newer icons, etc. Dolphin looks just like old school Explorer and the menu can be configured however suits your fancy with categories, submenus... the works. Love love love Q4 and recommend it to everyone.

[@charlieg4379]

I just sort of stumbled on it. In my quest to get and old Imac 2006 switched to linux, I kept running into walls with various linux installation. I then searched for 32 bit systems & found it being mentioned as a choice. I then tried it & no problem installing it & it ran great.

[@peppe540]

Absolutely a good option for lower end computers, but indeed strong competition, especially from xubuntu or lubuntu (given the overall use of Ubuntu). Q4OS is a very interesting product, I believe from the USA, and it has been around a long time. Thanks Michael! I also follow your German channel (thats where I started) and your videos are great to watch (and informative!). Keep them coming!

[@someboringperson9359]

Its from Germany actually.

[@gillespichavant5263]

I would definitely switch to Linux. I did a test on an old notebook, with this Q4OS distribution. Great, but... no one knows how to operate a CZUR stem scanner yet. 😢 That was the goal of my essay. Linux often lags

[@rmcellig]

I don't like whether a distro has all the latest and greatest. I use fossapup all the time. Great video!!!

[@enkiimuto1041]

this was helpful, thank you. If you like this style, you might like Twister OS and Fenix

[@shinrin4152]

So, if it runs good on old hardware, will this running on newer hardware make a Super Gaming PC?

[@elyzsabethahne2116]

Please, is there a way to adjust screen brightness? Thank you very much.

[@Doing_Time]

mine works with the keyboard brightness function keys...

[@pierpig7058]

Very cool, is it possible to use it for video editing?

[@davidedotto1594]

yes, you can do everything... obviously if the computer is very old you can't expect it, but this system allows you to work well with shotcut, kdlive, flowblade without problems, and I believe also with da vinci

[@msthalamus2172]

FWIW, I have a 7 year old desktop that runs Windows 10 just fine. It can't run Windows 11, though, at least not without hacking it, because its CPU is *one* year older than what's supported. I was happy, really happy, with Windows 7, but they took that away from me. Now they're taking 10 away and they want me to pay thousands of dollars for the privilege of "upgrading" to 11. I refuse to do so. It's been a long time coming, but I'm finally switching to Linux. For almost 30 years now, I've seen Linux as not-quite-ready for prime time on the desktop. They've come so far in the last 10 years, though, and Microsoft has done nothing but alienate me in that same timeframe. I mean, I've got 25 year old hardware that can run Q4OS! Microsoft is just manufactuing a crisis for their own benefit and I refuse to play along.

[@RedSntDK]

I feel the same. I'm tired of the useless requirements. I do have a newer computer now with the required "trusted platform module" (TPM) version, but I'm done with Microsoft. I'm so happy that Steam went with linux when they made steamdeck, it's made the interest in linux and development for linux really speed up massively.

[@cyngaethlestan8859]

I got tired of the 'upgrade' rubbish a long while ago. I settled on a substantially enhanced XP for most of my computers and only bought one very cheap 'Win'7 box for the internet now I'm using Q4 for the 'net. XP can be enhanced more than you may think and I can't stand the window manager and other things on 'Win'7. never the less I'd still pay a reasonable sum every year for security support to keep 'Win'7 as my net OS but M$ says I've got to throw all my machines and software away every few years . . Nope, not happening.

[@yusef3132]

If you are browsing on a core2 duo device, if one were to compile the web browser of choice with simd optimizations, youtube browsing should be a much more decent experience than what this gentleman is describing. Most software aren't taking advantage of these optimizations for some reason, laziness perhaps, or maybe because they figure that their cpu has '50' cores and doesn't need it, but without these optimizations, its not taking advantage of those extra cores. So older cpus with 2 or 4 cores will suffer. Also as far as the looks go, you DO realize this is a DE on a unix-like system? Meaning one can theme it manually to make it look as 'modern' as any so-called 'modern' DE out there. If one can make TWM, XFCE, FVWM, etc look 'modern' (which you most definitely can), then one can make TDE look 'modern', and it has the perfect toolkit to do so. I think it is very important to state that as a positive, than to make it seem like one is stuck with 'antiquated' looks. At least this gentleman metioned it is perfect for older devices... 🙄