Q4OS is THE distro for people who want a good oldschool-type "Windows" without using a Microsoft system. It even has a similar "Install Wizard" for apps as Windows has.
hi matt i just installed this from an .exe file in windows and it works great and its so easy, its definitely the way to get windows users to try linux
Echoing here. Only thing is it's 32 bit which is a bit limiting. Probably better off surfing on your WIN browsers but it will give you access to the Linux world very easily.
I "used" Q4OS for a while some time back. It had a major issue that didn't show in your VM, and that is that it was SLOOOOW to boot and start. But once it was on the desktop it was really fast. I installed it in a very old laptop and used one of the windows clone looks to give it to my grandma, apart from the slow start, it was perfect. Did everything she needed, with a pretty interface she knew how to get around and being quick enough so as not to need a new machine. Great little distro, can recommend.
Q4OS is stable and works smoothly and Plasma is the best version. Trinity DE is their iteration of KDE 3.5 and is spot on if you used it in it's day. Trinity is better suited for 32bit and Plasma for 64bit. I have been using it for a few years now and can't fault it as a good version of a Debian distro.
Haven't tried the plasma (ewww) version, but my kids have been using q4os 3 trinity installed on sdxc cards on 13 year old netbooks for a few years and it is indeed snappy. Before trinity we had lubuntu dual booting on the ssd drive with windows 10 and the windows 10 performed slightly better than lubuntu in general and particularly in multimedia usage; but q4os trinity easily outperforms them both in every way and I just never even felt like I needed to install it to the ssd.
Q4OS gives me those sweet 2003 vibes. The startup music, the startup system screen. Looks professional and smooth. However it is obvious that it is trying hard to look and feel like Windows.
> is trying hard to look and feel like Windows by design, for its main INTENDED demographic. more advance/experienced users might straight use Debian anyway.
depends how you set it up....kde 3 was very gui configurable and also supported transparency before vista came out with aero (and with a whole lot less bloat/gpu load than aero)...you can configure it to look like windows 7 or 10 which didn't exist yet, but without the bloat and bugs of plasma (which is basically a vista clone)...
Q4OS has a very decent Plasma version as well, and it has been around for quite some time. Worth checking out, very active forum and users as well and very friendly. Thanks Matt!
I've just put this on an old laptop from 2010 and it's running great. I really like it and everything it's really brought a super old laptop back to life in a better way than a lot of other distros I've tried. Works very well.
I have to thank you again for doing this video. Like I mentioned previously, this really is an incredible distro. Especially with the trinity desktop environment.
Q4OS is a very solid Debian based OS. It is not old, but fast, with the Trinity Desktop. It is even more lightweight, than Lxqt or Lxde. Furthermore, it is underrated. Everything works fine, with the same Software any other Distro is offering.
Already is! Took me a little while to figure out all the settings/controls but I've got her looking beautiful now. Very quick and as stable as anything out there.
TDE is what makes Q4OS great. I left slackware when they went plasma...I haven't seen any other linux manager or environment that I'd want to use daily, though I can bare lxde and openbox for a few weeks at a time...
I have Q4OS Linux in a very old laptop with only 512 mb RAM and it works perfect (Puppy Linux Tarhpup is lighter but very old); funny thing tho, when i used the look switcher it logged out and then the log in screen appeared normaly for me ( i use Trinity version). Nice review, i really liked that someone finally talked about this distro, if you don't like to have so much apps installed i recommend minimal installation.
I stumbled upon it last month and the Plasma version rocks. It's the fastest Linux I've used on my older HP Elite Book. Even Plasma is fast and sold for my needs.
Q4OS kicks ass! I was able to breathe new life into my buddy's Win10 laptop running Intel i3 w/ 8GB RAM and 5400RPM HDD. Now it screams and has a slick interface (Plasma with Breeze dark theme). I don't think he'll go back to using Windows anytime soon.
I personally installed Q4OS on my 3 computers, Plasma on my old MacBook Core 2 duo, Trinity DE on my poor Lenovo IdeaPad 100 and Trinity 32 Bits on my Slow PC'TAB 10" Atom 1.3 GHZ, after having tested many Linux distributions (Ubuntu , xubuntu, lubuntu, Mint, Mx linux, Peppermint, Fedora..) and some desktop environments (Xfce, Gnome, LxDe, LxQt) I opted for Q4OS and KDE I love it and I'm not ready to change 😁👍
I have quite an old laptop with Windows 10 on it. It runs slow, many times having the HDD 100% issue and RAM is almost full with a lot of tabs open. For objective reasons I have to keep Windows and I can't make a dual boot because of MBR HDD. So Q4OS inside Windows is a great solution for me. I've installed it and it works like a charm. Now I have around 2.5 GB of RAM used while working, instead of 7. I went with Plasma because I like more the feeling of it and the difference in performance is not so big, is uses only 400 MB of RAM more than Trinity. This distribution is so good, I wonder if there are also others that can be installed inside Windows.
I think Q4os pure is what Sparky Linux calls a minimal GUI version. It boots into a GUI, but may have very little else installed. I believe the Live installation is what Damn Small Linux called frugal installation. Then the distro runs from a clone of the ISO, just at hard drive speed. It may skip most configuration, including user and storage setup. This may unpack onto the user's disk with virtually no user input.. This seems a great testing or virtual installation option.
I am pretty sure ubuntu used to have the install from windows feature like 10-20 years ago (at least I think I rmeember them rolling it out bakc then, for all I know they could still have it)
@@TheLinuxCast It was discontinued many years ago, like 2013. The reason it isn't used anymore is because they had trouble maintaining the code with all the Windows changes, it performed poorly as it was installed on the same NTFS drive along with Windows as an application and it had a lot of various issues that caused it to not work for people. It was never a good solution for a long-term Linux transition and was only useful to demonstrate Linux to people running Windows.
you mean wubi? I knew people who used it but never used it myself....I was so happy with topologilinux (which actually installed slackware with the amazingly awesome kde3 into a disk image file on a windows parition that you could launch from a dos prompt or run across with colinux or just boot into (which I usually did, I just loved that backing it up was as easy as clicking copy and paste in windows...like a vm but not)) and it was blazing fast without using hardly any resources...it was like a 10x better version of zipslack, which I also loved...those were linux's best days
I have been running Q4OS KDE Plasma on my 2nd laptop (main is Linux Mint) for a week and it is performing at high level... easy install and configuration, no problems with hardware.... I had tried Manjaro and MX on this laptop before Q4OS and I'm not going back... PS- I didn't try Trinity yet.... it will be next...
I'm posting here to let you know that, also, there is an Ubuntu-based distro that uses Trinity Desktop Environment called "Quark" Linux, or "Quark" OS (this is not to be confused with "Quark XPress", which is a graphic design and page layout software for Mac and Windows).
I ask what's that distro's "package manager" - once you learn how to fully use that (plenty of YT Vids on that) you've mastered a lot of spinoff distros at once - in that line of the original distro.
They built in a menu configurator so you can build your own categories, submenus, etc. Takes about 10-15 minutes but you end up with a perfect, logical menu.
Best not to choose resolutions that you personally prefer but one that will be easier for your viewers to read! After going to 1080, you render 80% of your screen area as useless!
i used it for a while (the 32bit version) and i loved it, but I was unable to use surf the internet, very sluggish, I know that my netbook is old but at least can surf simple sites. ALSO i change themes always, and never throw me to the TTY, maybe it was because you changed your display resolution, I don't know.
@@TheLinuxCast the windows installer is the same thing you had in ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, called that time wubi, "windows ubuntu installer". you install the os in windows like its a aplication and can uninstall it later.
Ive being thinking, wouldnt it be great to have a installer on windows that makes that partition and installs grub and before the first boot nukes the rest of windows and leaves the entire disk for linux?
i tested q4os quite a while ago and i don't remember having so much double software, maybe they just added new stuff to figure out which to drop later and you got it right at that point i was impressed that a full fledged desktop environment with such a small ressource footprint could be so responsive and fast, and the ready to go theming options are perfect if you want to set up and older laptop of uncle bob which used to run winXP before and you don't want to spend hours and hours to teach him how plasma works...or you know, ubuntu with gnome...
A professor of mine once said: Be careful not to open your mind too much or your brain might fall out.. LOL Let me ask this question... Every Linux distro that you install, what's the first thing you do on first reboot? Change the screen resolution. And in every distro that I've installed, the screen resolution setting is buried under 10 submenu deep.
Once I have used, netrunner which is drived from manjaro that is drived from netrunner. One day, the distribution is just disbanded. I stay clear with niche distributions.
Hi, I am a linux beginner, I have a very old dual core pc with 8 gb of ram, I recently installed Q4OS 4.7 and I am happy with this distro, very stable and fast but I messed up for problems of incorrect installation on the programs, you miss dependencies, repositories etc ... However I'm curious to try windows 11 but in case it doesn't go well I would reinstall a linux distro again ... currently there is a more versatile, efficient and "beginner-proof" distro better than Q4OS? Or would I keep windows 11 and loading a live distro from a usb stick is feasible in terms of performance? Thanks.
depend on how old your dual core is--8gb should run anything--windows 11 is awful, windows 10 will do fine and it runs okay on a 2010ish dual-core atom or amd e-350 in my experience...you won't do better than q4os with trinity on that system...lubuntu is the only truly beginner friendly distro I can think of that would run okay on a slow CPU--Q4OS is a lot more difficult than lubuntu and a lot more stable/secure/feature rich in my opinion, so if you're able to handle Q4OS stick with it--and do yourself a favor and make sure you use the trinity flavor... mx is very easy for just sit and use it, but I wouldn't run the xfce version of it without at least an i3 or k10 and maybe something a little more for the other versions...
I actually ran Q4OS Plasma for a couple of years and it was great. Basically, it was a pretty bare Debian install that worked great out of the box. The focus on Trinity just seems to be an indulgence to me. And a completely needless one,
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Q4OS Trinity, Mabox and Antix can save any Potato Pc and make It usable in now days.
this. installed q4os on a REALLY old PC and flies like new.
Q4OS is THE distro for people who want a good oldschool-type "Windows" without using a Microsoft system.
It even has a similar "Install Wizard" for apps as Windows has.
I LOVE using q4os trinity. It's sooooo fast and really fun to use. For me it's amazing. Love it so much!!! Great video. Thanks!!! 😀
How do you install nvidia drivers? I used the wizard thing and I always get a wall of text after rebooting
hi matt i just installed this from an .exe file in windows and it works great and its so easy, its definitely the way to get windows users to try linux
Echoing here. Only thing is it's 32 bit which is a bit limiting. Probably better off surfing on your WIN browsers but it will give you access to the Linux world very easily.
I "used" Q4OS for a while some time back. It had a major issue that didn't show in your VM, and that is that it was SLOOOOW to boot and start. But once it was on the desktop it was really fast.
I installed it in a very old laptop and used one of the windows clone looks to give it to my grandma, apart from the slow start, it was perfect. Did everything she needed, with a pretty interface she knew how to get around and being quick enough so as not to need a new machine. Great little distro, can recommend.
Yeah, I can't judge startup times in a VM, they are almost always slow.
Q4OS is stable and works smoothly and Plasma is the best version. Trinity DE is their iteration of KDE 3.5 and is spot on if you used it in it's day. Trinity is better suited for 32bit and Plasma for 64bit. I have been using it for a few years now and can't fault it as a good version of a Debian distro.
it's a hidden gem....good lightweight and very configurable distro, great for older computers
Q4OS is the fastest Plasma distro I know. Its snappy even on those old atom notebooks.(and it supports 32bit)
Haven't tried the plasma (ewww) version, but my kids have been using q4os 3 trinity installed on sdxc cards on 13 year old netbooks for a few years and it is indeed snappy. Before trinity we had lubuntu dual booting on the ssd drive with windows 10 and the windows 10 performed slightly better than lubuntu in general and particularly in multimedia usage; but q4os trinity easily outperforms them both in every way and I just never even felt like I needed to install it to the ssd.
Q4OS gives me those sweet 2003 vibes. The startup music, the startup system screen. Looks professional and smooth.
However it is obvious that it is trying hard to look and feel like Windows.
> is trying hard to look and feel like Windows
by design, for its main INTENDED demographic.
more advance/experienced users might straight use Debian anyway.
depends how you set it up....kde 3 was very gui configurable and also supported transparency before vista came out with aero (and with a whole lot less bloat/gpu load than aero)...you can configure it to look like windows 7 or 10 which didn't exist yet, but without the bloat and bugs of plasma (which is basically a vista clone)...
Q4OS has a very decent Plasma version as well, and it has been around for quite some time. Worth checking out, very active forum and users as well and very friendly. Thanks Matt!
I've just put this on an old laptop from 2010 and it's running great. I really like it and everything it's really brought a super old laptop back to life in a better way than a lot of other distros I've tried. Works very well.
I have to thank you again for doing this video. Like I mentioned previously, this really is an incredible distro. Especially with the trinity desktop environment.
True. 😉
Q4OS is a very solid Debian based OS. It is not old, but fast, with the Trinity Desktop. It is even more lightweight, than Lxqt or Lxde. Furthermore, it is underrated. Everything works fine, with the same Software any other Distro is offering.
Conquer also doubles as a file manager. Seen this distro on a couple other channels. With a little more polish, Trinity desktop could be very good
Already is! Took me a little while to figure out all the settings/controls but I've got her looking beautiful now. Very quick and as stable as anything out there.
TDE is what makes Q4OS great. I left slackware when they went plasma...I haven't seen any other linux manager or environment that I'd want to use daily, though I can bare lxde and openbox for a few weeks at a time...
I have Q4OS Linux in a very old laptop with only 512 mb RAM and it works perfect (Puppy Linux Tarhpup is lighter but very old); funny thing tho, when i used the look switcher it logged out and then the log in screen appeared normaly for me ( i use Trinity version).
Nice review, i really liked that someone finally talked about this distro, if you don't like to have so much apps installed i recommend minimal installation.
I stumbled upon it last month and the Plasma version rocks. It's the fastest Linux I've used on my older HP Elite Book. Even Plasma is fast and sold for my needs.
How did you that Firefox to look more, compact shoud I say? It looks really cool
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Q4OS kicks ass! I was able to breathe new life into my buddy's Win10 laptop running Intel i3 w/ 8GB RAM and 5400RPM HDD. Now it screams and has a slick interface (Plasma with Breeze dark theme). I don't think he'll go back to using Windows anytime soon.
I personally installed Q4OS on my 3 computers, Plasma on my old MacBook Core 2 duo, Trinity DE on my poor Lenovo IdeaPad 100 and Trinity 32 Bits on my Slow PC'TAB 10" Atom 1.3 GHZ, after having tested many Linux distributions (Ubuntu , xubuntu, lubuntu, Mint, Mx linux, Peppermint, Fedora..) and some desktop environments (Xfce, Gnome, LxDe, LxQt) I opted for Q4OS and KDE I love it and I'm not ready to change 😁👍
This is true, there are a lot of distros. The man is not wrong.
I have quite an old laptop with Windows 10 on it. It runs slow, many times having the HDD 100% issue and RAM is almost full with a lot of tabs open. For objective reasons I have to keep Windows and I can't make a dual boot because of MBR HDD. So Q4OS inside Windows is a great solution for me. I've installed it and it works like a charm. Now I have around 2.5 GB of RAM used while working, instead of 7. I went with Plasma because I like more the feeling of it and the difference in performance is not so big, is uses only 400 MB of RAM more than Trinity. This distribution is so good, I wonder if there are also others that can be installed inside Windows.
I think Q4os pure is what Sparky Linux calls a minimal GUI version. It boots into a GUI, but may have very little else installed. I believe the Live installation is what Damn Small Linux called frugal installation. Then the distro runs from a clone of the ISO, just at hard drive speed. It may skip most configuration, including user and storage setup. This may unpack onto the user's disk with virtually no user input.. This seems a great testing or virtual installation option.
I am pretty sure ubuntu used to have the install from windows feature like 10-20 years ago (at least I think I rmeember them rolling it out bakc then, for all I know they could still have it)
I've never heard of it, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist. If it did, then I would love them to still have it and actually tell people about it.
@@TheLinuxCast It was discontinued many years ago, like 2013. The reason it isn't used anymore is because they had trouble maintaining the code with all the Windows changes, it performed poorly as it was installed on the same NTFS drive along with Windows as an application and it had a lot of various issues that caused it to not work for people. It was never a good solution for a long-term Linux transition and was only useful to demonstrate Linux to people running Windows.
you mean wubi? I knew people who used it but never used it myself....I was so happy with topologilinux (which actually installed slackware with the amazingly awesome kde3 into a disk image file on a windows parition that you could launch from a dos prompt or run across with colinux or just boot into (which I usually did, I just loved that backing it up was as easy as clicking copy and paste in windows...like a vm but not)) and it was blazing fast without using hardly any resources...it was like a 10x better version of zipslack, which I also loved...those were linux's best days
I have been running Q4OS KDE Plasma on my 2nd laptop (main is Linux Mint) for a week and it is performing at high level... easy install and configuration, no problems with hardware.... I had tried Manjaro and MX on this laptop before Q4OS and I'm not going back...
PS- I didn't try Trinity yet.... it will be next...
Is it only me or Q4OS logo looks like Team fortress 2 logo? Especially the logo in trinity in bottom left
it really is, just with one part missing
@@dermond Yes, I’m glad somebody understanded the refrence
i have used the windows installer before and it is excellent. it works very well, i could even use the installer to uninstall Q4OS. simply amazing.
I'm posting here to let you know that, also, there is an Ubuntu-based distro that uses Trinity Desktop Environment called "Quark" Linux, or "Quark" OS (this is not to be confused with "Quark XPress", which is a graphic design and page layout software for Mac and Windows).
I tried it, but gave up after a while because of driver issues. Older MacBook Pro, couldn't get sound or camera to work. Seemed clunky with USBs too.
Q4OS Trinity, Zorin OS Lite, and Bodhi Linux are my favorite light distros for old/weak latpops 👌🏻
I ask what's that distro's "package manager" - once you learn how to fully use that (plenty of YT Vids on that) you've mastered a lot of spinoff distros at once - in that line of the original distro.
The welcome screen appears after a boot, no matter which menu setting you have.
Great os for older machines with trinity runs o 500mhz pcs and above, I ran it on a e1-1200 and ran smooth.
Your wm rice is awesome 🔥🔥
Can you tell me where the dotfiles are hosted 🙂
Wanna replicate it 😅
gitlab.com/thelinuxcast
@@TheLinuxCast Thamks 😁
The windows install works great!
MGV=Matt great vid.
OMG, I'm just like you when looking at text! Where the hell did English language ability go?
The Windows installer does work, and you can dual boot.!
They built in a menu configurator so you can build your own categories, submenus, etc. Takes about 10-15 minutes but you end up with a perfect, logical menu.
Best not to choose resolutions that you personally prefer but one that will be easier for your viewers to read! After going to 1080, you render 80% of your screen area as useless!
i used it for a while (the 32bit version) and i loved it, but I was unable to use surf the internet, very sluggish, I know that my netbook is old but at least can surf simple sites.
ALSO i change themes always, and never throw me to the TTY, maybe it was because you changed your display resolution, I don't know.
Might have been a VM thing too, I didn't think about that.
@@TheLinuxCast the windows installer is the same thing you had in ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, called that time wubi, "windows ubuntu installer".
you install the os in windows like its a aplication and can uninstall it later.
Ive being thinking, wouldnt it be great to have a installer on windows that makes that partition and installs grub and before the first boot nukes the rest of windows and leaves the entire disk for linux?
What is that browser you're using that has the tabs and address bar and buttons and everything else all on a single "bar"?
my Firefox has been doing the same thing lately and it made me mad, I almost switched to a different browser because it was too distracting
Is the distro from the UK. Because that is how we spell centre. :)
Oh you know what it might be. I forget you guys have the proper English sometimes.
@@TheLinuxCast Centre, Colour and Grey. The world would be boring if we were all the same. 🙂
No, this distro is from Germany. One of my friends is maintainer there.
qforos is very stable and very deep functional Wine. right run all windovs aplications. its awesome.
i tested q4os quite a while ago and i don't remember having so much double software, maybe they just added new stuff to figure out which to drop later and you got it right at that point
i was impressed that a full fledged desktop environment with such a small ressource footprint could be so responsive and fast, and the ready to go theming options are perfect if you want to set up and older laptop of uncle bob which used to run winXP before and you don't want to spend hours and hours to teach him how plasma works...or you know, ubuntu with gnome...
A professor of mine once said: Be careful not to open your mind too much or your brain might fall out.. LOL
Let me ask this question... Every Linux distro that you install, what's the first thing you do on first reboot? Change the screen resolution. And in every distro that I've installed, the screen resolution setting is buried under 10 submenu deep.
which one is better, stable, Q4os or peppermintos
Q40os logo look like tf2 logo
nice project, not for me, but its a cool distro
Similar to Windows XP.
Awesome Matt!
LLAP
for old pc's
I rather use LXDE instead of Trinity
6:45 recommended for regular losers huh? 🤣
Can you help me how to connect to WiFi. I found my WiFi and when i try to connect iz say: SSID not found . Tnx
Oahh, finally...
Once I have used, netrunner which is drived from manjaro that is drived from netrunner. One day, the distribution is just disbanded. I stay clear with niche distributions.
Hi, I am a linux beginner, I have a very old dual core pc with 8 gb of ram, I recently installed Q4OS 4.7 and I am happy with this distro, very stable and fast but I messed up for problems of incorrect installation on the programs, you miss dependencies, repositories etc ... However I'm curious to try windows 11 but in case it doesn't go well I would reinstall a linux distro again ... currently there is a more versatile, efficient and "beginner-proof" distro better than Q4OS? Or would I keep windows 11 and loading a live distro from a usb stick is feasible in terms of performance? Thanks.
I think you should try Zorin OS, Manjaro or Linux Mint, they are very user friendly distros; MX Linux is very good too.
Linux Mint is a great option for a complete and polished operating system.
depend on how old your dual core is--8gb should run anything--windows 11 is awful, windows 10 will do fine and it runs okay on a 2010ish dual-core atom or amd e-350 in my experience...you won't do better than q4os with trinity on that system...lubuntu is the only truly beginner friendly distro I can think of that would run okay on a slow CPU--Q4OS is a lot more difficult than lubuntu and a lot more stable/secure/feature rich in my opinion, so if you're able to handle Q4OS stick with it--and do yourself a favor and make sure you use the trinity flavor...
mx is very easy for just sit and use it, but I wouldn't run the xfce version of it without at least an i3 or k10 and maybe something a little more for the other versions...
I use it. But with a different flavor. Kde. Mine looks fine
I wan't to see a good arch with Trinity Will be the best one.
debian is debian is debian is debian
its like the pepsi guy said, coke cant say "coke is it" any more, they have to say "coke ARE it".
don't know, never a debian fan before...slackware desktops, rhel servers...then q4os came along and I'm apt to keep using it as long as it has tde..
I actually ran Q4OS Plasma for a couple of years and it was great. Basically, it was a pretty bare Debian install that worked great out of the box. The focus on Trinity just seems to be an indulgence to me. And a completely needless one,
No operating system is complete without a hotdog theme. #boycottredmondtheme
it's an OS that has Q4 in it🤣
I been using q4os on a leveno yoga laptop, it run and it works I mainly use it as a daily driver.
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