#trinity desktop environment

[q4os-tde-official]

Hai :D

join us, we don't use up all your RAM :3

not actually affiliated with Q4OS, Debian, or any major open-source projects, im just someone who enjoy being a goober on the interwebs

Short summary of what Q4OS is

i love UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE, ULTRAKILL, CoTL, Eurythmics, Panic! At The Disco, FEX, IDKHOW, computer hardware, nature, drawing, and making music

(catgirl)(bot[girl)thing]

very british

certified short (roughly between 5'6" to 5'9")

proud computer-kisser

if you wanna refer to me with a shorter name, call me q4 :D

i exist possibly maybe.?

personal blog: @autumn-is-a-kibty

mega gay blog (nsfw): @q4os-kde-official

[weedsollux]

[q4os-tde-official]

the neofetch on my laptop :3

also the colors look a lot less intense and a lot more blue-ish on the actual laptop display (some weird old display technology with terrible color accuracy)

(q4os identifies itself internally as just plain old Debian 12, according to the devs this is for compatibility purposes)

[q4os-tde-official]

Q4OS is basically just a cut down and optimised version of Debian for older hardware¹, with the 32-bit TDE version requiring only 256MB of RAM³ (No minimum speed listed), and a processor as old as an Intel Pentium II²

¹ Source: https://q4os.org/dqa015.html (Bullet point 2: Lean and fast)

² Only certain variants, some older variants do not meet the required clock speeds of at least 350MHz³'⁴

³ Source: https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html

⁴ Source: https://downloads.bl4ckb0x.de/download.intel.com/design/PentiumII/datashts/24365703.pdf (yes i tracked down the datasheet for the 350MHz, 400MHz, and 450MHz Pentium II)

[q4os-tde-official]

my thoughts on TDE

pros:

majorly nostalgic vibes

potato level hardware requirements (you don't even need a GPU, it uses software rendering by default)

literally just a continuation of KDE 3.5, and i love KDE

one of the screensavers is literally just The 4th Doctor era Doctor Who intro

cons:

crappy graphics settings

settings are fragmented between multiple different programs

it uses software rendering by default, so you have to dig through the settings to find the OpenGL toggle

[seltavto]

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) and Compiz! This might spark nostalgia. Twilight wallpaper for fun. Distro is Q4OS.

[q4os-tde-official]

oh btw fun fact: the wikipedia page for TDE actually mentions Q4OS as one of the only distros that ships it as the default :3