Q4OS Review - A Polished Debian Experience with 2 Great Desktop Choices
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Q4OS is an efficient and flexible Linux distribution based on Debian, and offers two distinct desktop environments, KDE and Trinity. While each has its benefits, we'll explore the features that make Q4OS unique and which desktop environment you may wish to use.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction & Q4OS Overview
1:59 Q4OS-Specific Features
7:32 Default Applications & Look Switcher Themes
11:01 Resource Usage (KDE vs Trinity DE)
11:54 Exploring the Trinity Desktop Environment
13:17 Konqueror - A Great File Manager; Not A Useable Web Browser
15:23 Trinity Themes (Windows XP, anyone?)
16:19 Synaptic Package Manager in TDE Version
17:05 Conclusion - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Q4OS is definitely THE most Windows-like Linux OS out there.
On top of the remarkably familiar UI themes, the way they implemented Windows-like "installer Wizards" for apps certainly makes the whole system feel more familiar to MS refugees.
Not to mention you can literally INSTALL it next to Windows, within Windows, and not lose anything, is truly remarkable!
That’s a very good point. I hadn’t noticed how many Windows-like and -oriented features there are.
You forgot windowsfxFX and Winux
Now LinuxFX really does go after the Windows appearance and feature set!
Thanks for a great overview of Q4OS! I'm also a happy user. I run it with Trinity on a really old computer where I previously ran Lubuntu, which is also a lightweight distro. Q4OS with Trinity is a lot faster / more lightweight than Lubuntu in my experience.
Agreed! I think Q4OS is slimmer and more efficient under the hood than most anything Ubuntu-based; not that you can’t have a good lightweight Ubuntu-based distro, but just that Q4OS (especially with Trinity) seems very well optimized for lightweight usage.
I LOVE this distro with the trinity desktop environment!! It's so fast and usable. I highly recommend it. Very stable. Well done video!! 😀
It really is a great experience!
Q4OS are very reliable distro without any flaws. 😉👍
It is really good!
I use Q4OS Trinity on a notebook Intel Atom 1.6 GHz 2 GB RAM and it's great! Other distros that i tried and also very lightweight such as AntiX Linux, Puppy Linux (Bionic or Slacko), Elive Linux and Bodhi Linux are very good too.
Glad to hear it! I’ve also found Q4OS does a great job of slimming down resource usage under the hood while still providing a nice useable experience.
I like Puppy Linux and Bodhi as well (and they may run even better on VERY low-end hardware) but I personally find that Q4OS offers a friendlier user experience than they do.
What are u doing with ur old notebook? Is it good to use?
@@nhi181 I use my notebook when i go travelling and i pretty much do whatever i want except 2 things: Steam and Discord! The support for both in 32 bits machines in linux was droped i think. If you want to use Steam or Discord on 32 bits machines only with Windows 7 and 8.1, windows 10 is just to much for this notebook.
@@andremagalhaes664 virgindows 10 is too much for anything, lol.
Absolutely EXCELLENT review.. Thanks for going over the applicable FEATURES instead of just reiterating kde crap that we all know and showing the basic thing that kde does-- good to know what this software actually DOES and how.. THANKS AGAIN.. GREAT REVIEW. I have a windows friend (despite the fact she still uses windows)..that wants to go to Linux- and i think THIS would be great for her-- because she can set it to look pretty much exactly like windows.. :)
Glad you liked the video and found it informative! This could be pretty nice for a Windows user (as it can look quite similar as you mentioned). My only concern might be the extensive mess of KDE’s settings for a new user (unless she has no intention of tweaking the system).
@@PlanetLinuxChannel THAT would be my suggestion- DON"T do anything you don't know about until later when ready to learn how to do it properly..
Thank you. Just learnt something
As someone who is building up a rig with old pc parts because #1 it doesn't need power for the work i'll be doing on it and #2 it minimizes E waste(not everything needs to have the latest and greatest to be functional)
since i'm going old school with hardware, i've been looking for something that emulates that old school windows xp experience and look, lo and behold, the perfect distro, with that old school feel and modern functionality.
It does a pretty good job of providing that XP-style look and is a great everyday / productivity distro that really does shine on older hardware.
I admire your building with older parts. It’s impressive what can be accomplished even with older components. I recently worked with an old Dell desktop with an older (I think 4th Gen) i7 and just put in a larger power supply and used (but modern) GTX 1650 graphics card. Now that 9-year-old business productivity tower is a pretty capable video editing and 1080p gaming PC!
Installed on ASUS Netbook Eee (Intel Atom N455 2 GB ram, 320 GB HDD). Works great! Thanks for the review!
Planning to try this OS, especially on older machines, as newer Q4OS exists for 32-bit systems as well as 64-bit.
Two more things, it can be installed right from a Win 10 machine, so you end up with WIn10/Q4Os dual boot, a great feature, which means that any NTF hard drive is seen and writable to. Very fast with a circa 2011 4 gig memory Macbook Pro. It doesn't see the Mac's built in Wifi, so I run with USB wifi dongle, or use Internet cable connection.. Steve
Yeah, wi-fi could be a bit finicky in most Linux distros on some MacBooks; there might be drivers / kernel modules online that would add support. But yes, Q4OS really does make it simple to use alongside an existing Windows installation, something more distros should consider a priority in my opinion.
I am providing a review of Q4OS to a local PC Users Group. I installed Q4OS on a 22 year old HP OmniBook XE2 with PIII 450MHz and 256MB RAM. I had to use a PCMCIA ethernet adapter and the Trinity Basic Desktop Environment due to the lack of SSE2 instruction set. I agree that the Konqueror Browser is not practical for browsing the internet. Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox crawl on this ancient laptop. I plan to recommend the Pale Moon browser for systems with limited RAM. Any thoughts about a browser (e.g., Pale Moon) for such systems?
Pale Moon is a good choice. I could also suggest trying Midori (not sure how it is specifically on Q4OS, but it should be fairly lightweight).
Konqy is only there for html help etc - its not meant as a replacement browser - which is why profiler offers you Chrome, Chromium and Firefox.
Great point; that makes sense!
If you have plasma set first, and later add trinity DE ---discover package manager is still available if you dig a little deeper in the start menu. I have used it multiple times in Trinity DE...Q4OS is my daily driver on one pc, and use Windows 10 on the other, but once Windows 10 no longer is workable, I am go to linux on all pcs.
Thanks for the info!
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Also I forgot to add, if you install trinity first without plasma and want discover you can install it from synaptic...just have to make sure you search for it properly...
Does Q4OS have preset access to repositories other than their own, such as Debian or Ubuntu? Great review!
I’d have to check, but if I recall correctly, I believe it has everything from the Debian repositories.
Is it possible to uninstall konqueor? I want to use another file manager.
How recent is the Kde version? Does it use Wayland?
It’s currently using KDE Plasma 5.20.5.While I don’t recall with 100% certainty, I believe it’s using xorg for now.
Q4OS with Trinity desktop for me are distro number one! 👍
Simply fantastic! 😉
It really is a great distro that is fast, efficient and customizable. Plus the Trinity Desktop gives off a lot of nostalgia.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Trinity desktop: light, clean, elegant, without unnecessary frills and perfect Q4OS distro, it has no flaws! Spectacular! It only happens during the installation phase, it's not a "plug and play" distro, there are also many old forgotten software to uninstall, but once it's set up properly it's really impressive.
Sir, can the labels/text on desktop icon been removed/disabled? (such as "My Computer", "Trash", etc). I am using 4.10 Gemini Trinity version.
I’ll have to check on that.
Unfortunately I can’t find a way to do this. It is possible to disable the hover tooltips by right clicking on the desktop, selecting Configure Desktop > Behaviour > Show tooltips. I know that’s probably not what you’re asking, but it’s all I can find.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Thanks a lot sir, great appreciate, maybe next time i can try that step by step, but finally i use mx-linux for my simple daily task. It can run smooth too in my very old pc.
I am sorry for my bad english
No worries! MX Linux is a great choice!
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.
Thanks for the comment! If you’re looking for something lightweight and efficient, yet still fairly user-friendly, I recommend either Peppermint OS or Linux Mint with MATE or XFCE desktop environments. If you’re willing to have it use slightly more resources for a better overall experience, then Linux Mint Cinnamon or Zorin OS are great, beginner-friendly options. If you want to keep using something with KDE (the default desktop in Q4OS) then I recommend trying KDE Neon or Kubuntu (Fedora’s KDE spin is also great, but uses a different command-line package management system than Q4OS (DNF instead of APT) so you may not be as familiar with that.
Hope this helps point you in the right direction. Let me know if there’s anything else.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel After contacting many youtubers like you and receiving replies on which distro you recommend including mint xfce, lmde, linux lite, mx linux
... I drew my conclusions for the choice between mx linux, lmde, cinnamon or zorin after having my pc capacity (E8500 dual core 8 gb ram). What do you think about it as the best compromise I switch to mx linux? full screen resolution photo. Thank you.
I believe MX Linux should run well on that computer. I hadn’t considered it the most user friendly in the past, but I believe it is much better now and should be pretty easy to use. You can always try the live environment from the USB drive before installing it onto your computer so you can see if you like the interface and experience. If by chance you don’t, then those other choices are all good to try (I would say specifically Linux Mint Cinnamon and Zorin are the most user-friendly of those listed).
@@PlanetLinuxChannel thank you!
@@mirkoregina8733 Titan Linux, Q4OS with KDE works like charm on my E8400, 4GB ram ...also Mint Cinnamon, which is very user friendly or a MX XFCE but my feel is that MX is overbloated ...
Ignoring my Spec.
Can this OS run vscode?
Does this OS good for compiling?
It should be able to run VS Vode as it’s available as a .deb package and a Snap app. Though I’m not sure if Q4OS would be particularly better or worse at compiling compared to other OS’s.
I have a very old pc with only 256mb of ram. Can i use this linux distro or should i go with what?
256MB might be pushing it, but you could try the Trinity desktop version. Peppermint OS is also a consideration, though again, 256 MB might not be quite enough. Options like TinyCore, Damn Small Linux, or Puppy Linux are all designed for super lightweight use, but may not be quite as user-friendly.
@@PlanetLinuxChannelcan i use for video editing, gaming or as a daily driver. I have AMD laptop with 4gb RAM. I hope it support Waydroid too. 😅
I think 256MB will be far too low to use any modern version of Linux. many distro's will claim their version will run on some very old machine, well it might technically run but it won't be usable. Remember the only meaningful office suite for Linux is LibreOffice which is stunningly resource hungry and always has been. I tried StarOffice 5.2, as it was then called, twenty one years ago on Windows and SUSe 7 and it made my computer cry, (it was neither better or worse on Linux). Only the vast power available to more modern computers allows Star/Open/LibreOffice to be a usable, (and really nice,) suite.
With 256Mb Ram I would suggest you consider Win98Se - Don't laugh it runs fast with that much ram and you will find it easy to find drivers and add ons for 98se which you wont with an old Linux distro like SUSe 7. As a bonus remember you can download older, but perfectly good programs for free from a number of sites. MS Office 97 or 2000 / Lotus Smartsuite / WordPerfect all available as are PagePlus / CorelDraw et al. Lastly any reference works you might want will be available on ebay and there are still websites that offer community support for 98 and you might be surprised how much better 98 can be over a standard vanilla install. (unlike NT, Windows allows tinkering.)
If you really must use Linux I was impressed with SuSe 7 and it too should fly with that much ram. If you can pick up a boxed copy the documentation was seriously impressive, three manuals that were pitched just right.
Well I'm baffled with installing, I can't, hangs on plasma boot screen, yet can install any variant distro of KDE including Kubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 and also bleeding edge Neon 🤔
Interesting. Does it install then hang on the boot screen when restarting after installation, or can you not even get to the installer?
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Thanks for reply, well I won't really say it's installing by process, running from usb live boot, from booting it goes keyboard setup then to display set then as KDE Plasma screen is booting, just hangs , same point each time, tried fail safe and editing grub on both adding nomodeset to no avail, it was Q4OS Gemini, Plasma, live - 64bit / x64 ...... created a usb live boot with Unetbootin, gonna try later with Rufus and Etcher just to see 👍
Good luck! I’ll have to do a bit of research and digging to see if I can come up with some additional troubleshooting.
Does it have a language support option?
I’m not aware of a language support option on the Welcome screen. However, KDE does have various language, locale, and spell-check settings in System Settings > Regional Settings. The Trinity desktop has some language / input settings in Control Panel > Regional & Accessibility, and spell check options in Control Panel > TDE Components > Spell Check. I hope that helps!
Q4OS also offer a easy way to dual boot woth windows ;)
It’s always nice when a distro strives to make that simple.
I ran this with trinity desktop for a while until I went distro hopping and landed back on Mint.
It’s pretty nice, especially if you want a more classic or nostalgic feel.
Is good distro?
I certainly think so. But I do recommend trying a live image for yourself. You can check it out at Q4OS.org
Can microsoft office be installed on Q4OS ?
Not directly, however you can use an app called Bottles (which uses WINE and Proton behind the scenes) to attempt to install the Windows version of Microsoft Office. I’ve found that older versions (such as 2010) tend to work, but I’m not sure how new you can go before there are issues.
On the other hand, I’ve found that OnlyOffice is an amazing (and free) alternative that is almost perfectly compatible with MS Office files and has a VERY similar interface.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel i tried only office.not happy with it.libre office wps , apache still appears much better to me.thank you 👍
I’ve also really liked WPS. To clarify my initial reply, if you have MS Office (either the install disc or a downloaded version) you could try installing Bottles or PlayOnLinux to set it up in Q4OS, but as the compatibility could be hit or miss, especially with newer versions of Office, I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy a licence I just to try if you don’t already have it.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Yes , i did it on other versions of linux installing x term y term and so on .on zorin , on ubuntu , linuxmint . I was hoping you had some better options than the ones i already tried 😁 thx for the reply.original office ten does install on zorin. I did it.once.
CrossOver is a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer available for Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS. This compatibility layer enables many Windows-based applications to run on Linux operating systems, macOS, or Chrome OS......Downside 🤔 i dont think it is free.
Is it only me or Q4OS logo looks like Team fortress 2 logo? Especially the logo in trinity in bottom left
Oh, it really does!
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Ooooh it’s nice to see that you get the refrence. Keep the good work up, you’re doin’ good lad
Thanks!
moving light in the night sky linux
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand
@@PlanetLinuxChannel that is what a planet is
😂 It all makes sense now!