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Lilith

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Registered: 2026-05-15

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Testing Trinity Pure (ASUS E203M) & Follow Up Plasma/Trinity Basic

First off I would like to mention when I installed Quarkos for the first time on the ASUS E203M I actually chose Pure it installed to the eMMC and behaved similar as Basic (see previous post https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6081) however the main issue that made me move to Basic was the sound wasn't working the icon didn’t have a red X on the speaker it looked as usual but was not producing sound. I currently have Q4OS 5 Minimal installed on a 32bit HP Mini and the sound is working fine.

Following up on my previous post, https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6081
I have been doing some light use and exploring on both Plasma and Trinity on this ASUS. I would like to mention I was very pleased how when I ran, sudo apt install firefox it installed the lighter non snap version on both Trinity and Plasma. The battery life is excellent on Quarkos its 7 or 8 years old but is lasting a long time now on both environments. Its almost like its a new battery again!

While in Plasma Basic I decided to run free -h while nothing was open it returned, Mem total 3.66Gi used 1.2Gi free 1.7Gi shared 171Mi buff/cache 1.1Gi available 2.5Gi
I then ran df -h to see how much space it took up on a fresh install after only installing Firefox it returned, Used 6.6G

I then moved to the Trinity Basic environment I ran free -h with nothing else running and it returned, Mem total 3.66Gi used 678Mi free 2.8Gi shared 48Mi buff/cache 457Mi available 3.0Gi
I then ran df -h to see its size on a new install I installed zram, ufw and firefox only so far and it returned, 4.3G

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Re: Testing Trinity Pure (ASUS E203M) & Follow Up Plasma/Trinity Basic

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