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Lilith

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Registered: 2026-05-15

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Testing Quarkos Resolute Live Mode & Basic (Mr Chromebox Chromebook)

Today I will be testing Quarkos Resolute Raccoon Trinity Live Mode & Basic version on a Mr Chromebox Lenovo N42-20 Chromebook 16gb eMMC & 4GB RAM 14” screen.

Trinity Live Mode
All [OK] checks passed at startup I had no DPI issues on this device like the last ones (the asus and the intel tablet) when I got to the blue screen and WiFi setup touch pad didn’t work however I was able to successfully connect to my home WiFi network, after the live desktop loaded I was greeted with the lovely Quarkos opening melody so now I know sound drivers are working perfectly! Now touch pad is working after I got into the desktop.

I proceeded to the WiFi on the system tray I deleted the current connection then reconnected using the GUI on the system tray WiFi connected successfully

I am now installing Basic using the Erase disk No swap options during install the screen saver went on with the clock and I moved the touch pad to see the installer everything is still going fine. After it installed fully and I needed to click finish to reboot I had no issues it rebooted itself.

Trinity Basic
I was then greeted with the grub menu and a full list of passing [OK] checks however when I got to the main login screen the touchpad didn’t work. Once it loaded the desktop the touchpad started working again. I was then greeted with the same Quarkos opening melody and seeing WiFi auto connected. USB sticks were also detected fine and removed safely with no issues.

I installed firefox next to try out streaming on youtube it all worked great but while I looked for firefox the main menu didn’t have the newly installed applications option that shows up usually. I tried logging out logging back in there was no issues with screen or anything. I ran free -h with firefox open, Mem total 3.8Gi used 1.5Gi free 940Gi shared 279Mi buff/cache 1.8Gi available 2.3Gi the OS size was also only 4.3G I went on to install some other tools like ufw, zram-tools, I had no issues or errors.

Over all runs snappy and all [OK] checks passed at shutdown.

I would like to add this is has been a very difficult older Chromebook to work with, Q4OS Basic and Quarkos Basic are only a few of the operating systems that actually work flawlessly on this model I've tested so far. I am very impressed