Q4OS

Reader supplied reviews for Q4OS Average rating 8.7 from 121 review(s) What are your thoughts on Q4OS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.6-testing2.71.8.80.5.29 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2.7 Rating: 6 Date: 2019-05-18 Votes: 0 Once installed, this OS is great. The default layout looks like MSWindows XP (though that's easily changed). In fact, everything about it is geared to look and work like XP (including the look of the icons). This would be great for someone switching from MSWindows (XP or 7) to Linux. As an OS in it's own right, it works magnificently. It's a general purpose desktop OS, using the Trinity desktop environment - a simplified version of KDE. The only caveat is the installation process. Where most other distros ask you whether you want to install the new distro alongside the old, or erase the disc and use the entire disc for the new installation, or other, Q4OS's installer makes/lets you do all the partition work manually, and then only installs the bare OS. Then, once you reboot and reach the desktop, you have to install your choice of basic programs or full desktop, using the ‘Desktop Profiler’. It took a full 3/4 of an hour for that part alone (for the full desktop). Most other distros take about 15-20 minutes to install on my machine. Q4OS took one hour in total. This would/will dissuade anyone, coming from MSWindows, from ever installing Q4OS, unfortunately. Since Q4OS is based on Debian (stable) why not use the 'buntu installer which simply asks you to choose between options and does it all for you. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.6-testing Rating: 9 Date: 2019-05-17 Votes: 1 I'm using KDE Plasma edition. Oddly it runs much more faster than other kde based distros, such as KDE Neon and or Kubuntu. Probably the best Debian based distro right now. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.7 Rating: 9 Date: 2019-05-14 Votes: 2 Q4 is fast. It boots to the desktop faster than I've ever seen any OS - especially Windows. One thing that makes this kind of speed possible is a Solid State Drive. They're so inexpensive these days, you can get one for less than $100.00 USD/CD. There are a lot of tools to configure the Trinity Desktop. The number of options seems almost limitless. You can install other desktop environments using the Synaptic Package Manager. So far, I like Trinity best, after trying KDE, and Mate. Even if you don't go for the KDE environment, there are a lot of KDE apps in Q4. One other thing I like about Q4, is that is uses Debian 9 (Stretch). Mint, Ubuntu, and a few other distros are also based on Debian. I have the full install for Debian Stretch (a 3 CD set), but Q4 was a lot easier to install. Debian 9 didn't see my wireless adabtor, but Q4 saw it right away, and used it as part of the installation. The same goes with my printer Brother HL-L2360DW. I used the Trinity printer set up. It was a lot less complicated than the Brother linux version. However, the linux install version gives me better control over the printer. With the Trinity setup, I couldn't opt for double sided printing. While Q4 is a good place to start for making the switch to Linux, I still have to recommend Linux Mint for that purpose. Q4 is indeed easy to use and install, but there is a slightly higher learning curve that might put off some one making the windows to linux switch. I hope you try and enjoy Q4 OS. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 121 reader reviews of Q4OS...