New testing release "q4os-5.4-rpi.r2-testing4.img.xz" is out for download, see https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.ph … 261#p26261 . This is considered as first release candidate, so testing is appreciated
Very good, will test it soon
I have made a little video of q4os raspberry test on Pi5: (based on test release 3)
https://youtu.be/pgrMvIIgfVs
(quality not very good, but the camera doesn't like shooting lcd monitor But with raspberry version I have not the choice to run it in a virtual machine, which would be very easy to make a movie capture).
I will do a more general Q4OS trinity video with win10 theme and with cleaner image soon
]]>What do you think is best for SSD installation?
]]>Sorry, I assumed that q4os/grub fetches the initial ram-disk from the EFI partition, i.e. /boot/efi/EFI/Q4OS/initrd* and did not look up what is in /boot. I should have checked the grub configuration, which clearly shows that it fetches the initrd from /dev/sdb2 mounted on / and then from /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-28-amd64.
]]>A couple things pop out at me right away. While modern, that's a SUPER low end CPU (being only dual core), so depending on WHAT the programs you're using are, it could just be the programs themselves are taxing the CPU beyond what it can smoothly handle.
I run trinity on a laptop with the exact same model of i3, and although it is not a powerfull processor, everything is running super smooth (chrome, libreoffice, some windows apps with wine, I even do sometimes virtualization with virtualbox, without any problem of performance. It's a more than sufficient cpu to have a smooth experience with trinity (I think it will even run very well with q4os plasma). In fact this laptop had windows 11 pre-installed, and to be honest, it was running not so bad with windows... so it must fly with Q4os trinity ^^
In regard of this, I think the problem is not the cpu. Maybe as you said, the disk is nearly full or defective ?
]]>@Manessa: please edit your OP subject to reflect that this thread is about Quark.
]]>I noticed that it's only for advanced Linux users
Where did you get the notice from ? If you are using Q4OS, there shouldn't be any significant issues, we recommend to use Desktop profiler to install Trinity DE.
]]>On that old machine I used Ubuntu 12.04 back in the day until I had to switch to windows for video editing, but vista compatibility is not good. Nowdays you would defenitely have to run something like Q4OS to get a newer kernel, software and security fixes.
I also enjoy videos of people repairing and upgrading old PCs and the biggest RAM eaters nowdays are browsers, I found that on my i5 I mentioned above, turning off mitigations and using a different browser like Mercury or Thorium (AVX2 compiled firefox and Chrome for super fast speed) gave me almost like a 25-30% boost which is a lot, it even helped match my i7-9700H on windows on certain single-core javascript test I did which is mind-blowing.
Using a very minimalistic linux distro is still something that interests me, even on capable hardware, as I could for example render bigger scenes on Blender.
Something some of those old PC videos on youtube overlook is that apart from the browser, big websites using lots of CSS and javascript like Youtube have alternative front-ends like piped.video or safereddit and uforio for Reddit. (Twitter is a bit more complicated). I also think those site could be promoted by lightweight distros.
Also I wonder if these existed back then or are a new thing motivated by corporations insane tracking policy. Learning web dev made me curious about alternative front-ends for everything and CLIs for things UIs are too much.
]]>RedSnt wrote:... with running a tiny 1024*600 resolution, has been the default scaling set to 1.25 being close to impossible to change without a lot of guessing using tabbing + space ...
You may appreciate this tip [...link...]
Cheers! Very useful indeed.
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