I have a quick follow-up question: Does the Q4OS Installer for Windows install only the Plasma version? I could not find how to switch to Trinity after I booted into the Plasma desktop. And, not having seen Plasma before, I was surprised by it!
I think it can be taken as a given that anyone using the Q4OS Installer for Windows is using Windows :>). Therefore, I would have expected that the new user be greeted by a more Windows-like desktop. (I can't tell you how much time I have spent with different distros figuring out how to place the Recycle Bin on the Desktop! Many distros have recognized this, and at least made it easy to add it with a tweak utility of some sort.)
Plasma has (in my opinion), taken a giant leap backward by cleansing the desktop of *everything*, even the Home and Computer symbols that are so ubiquitous in most distros I have seen. I think it is easier to figure out how to remove these icons, if one doesn't want them, than to puzzle over why they are missing! A tweak utility that presented those options on first boot would have been a big help. Due to the strangeness of the Plasma experience, I uninstalled the entire thing! But I'd try it again if I could figure out how to *easily* run the Trinity Desktop by default. Any help you can give in this regard would be appreciated!
Thanks again,
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January 28, 2020
Anyone is welcome to report any Q4OS-Winsetup experience, especially regarding the Secure boot enabled systems, we would appreciate a feedback.
]]>My solution was to begin the install routine and check the Temp folder before clicking on 'install', while filling in my password, etc. The newly created Temp sub-folder is actually present at that point, and I was able to manually create an entry in my firewall to allow internet access to pyrun.exe *before* it tried to access the internet, rather than after. With the manual entry created, I clicked on 'install', and the process began without error.
It is unfortunate that such a laborious process was necessary for me to get the installation to proceed. A "Retry" function in the Wubi installer would be so much easier, and I'm really surprised that a "Retry" dialog hasn't been added to the installer, by this late date.
(I just thought you'd like to know about this problem!)
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01/26/2020
But not long ago I used the Q4OS installer for Windows on an old computer and after being satisfied with the use of this operating system I decided to install it on the hard disk by partitioning it.
The main reason I made this change (difficult, because I had to perform the partition) was that I didn't know how to change the size originally assigned to Q4OS and I needed to increase it. Another reason was my assumption that this would give me better performance.
However, soon I want to install Q4OS on a new machine with UEFI and have double booting with Windows, and I would prefer not to have to do the partition and therefore just use the Windows installer, which is faster and easier, since in practice I have not noticed much difference between the one version and the other, because the problems I had in the former have been replicated in the latter, and now I think they are problems with the hardware or certain programs. The same problems I have in Windows, although in this one they are worse.
But for this I would like to have the possibility to change the size of the space allocated to Q4OS in Windows (root.disk file) when needed, and to know, from the technical perspective of the Q4OS Team, what are the differences between these two ways of using this operating system and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.
In addition, before using the Q4OS installer from Windows on a new UEFI machine, I would like detailed, easy-to-use instructions on MOK and how to use it.
Congratulations and thanks to the Q44OS Team for their excellent work.
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]]>You can get the installer executable here https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html . Any testing would be helpful, so if you want, please try it out and report back results.
Installation instructions: https://www.q4os.org/dqa014.html
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