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Lilith

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Registered: 2026-05-15

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Testing Quarkos Resolute All Three Trinity Editions (DELL Inspiron 20)

Today I will be testing Quarkos Resolute Raccoon Trinity all three editions and installing each one on a Windows 8 era DELL Inspiron 20 Model 3034 Desktop with 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD I’ve tested all the hardware and it passed I also have the last BIOS version installed and I checked SMART DATA the HDD has no errors and only 8 months power on time.

Quarkos Trinity Live Mode
I was first greeted with “Welcome To Ubuntu 26.04” and all passing [OK] checks.
At set up WiFi and sound all worked so I proceeded to install Trinity Pure with no swap (Ill install zram-tools later) Then it installed to the HDD successfully without any errors then it was time to reboot.

Trinity Pure
After reboot I came to the all passing [OK] checks at first setup internal Wifi connected great to my home network however sound wasn't working.
I proceeded to installing firefox I ran, which firefox and returned /usr/bin/firefox I then tried youtube and video streaming was good but had no sound.
I then ran df -h to see the fresh installation size was 4.1G
I also ran while nothing else was running free -h it returned, Mem total 3.7Gi used 700Mi free 1.6Gi shared 68Mi buff/cache 1.7Gi available 3.0Gi
Changing the DNS didn’t work in the GUI so I had to go in the terminal sudo nano /etc/systemd/resolved.conf then 1.1.1.3 DNS was set system wide and filtering now works.
At shutdown all [OK] checks passed.

Trinity Basic
I then went to install Basic next to Pure and used the alongside option on the installer and it installed successfully I got into the grub menu I saw Pure on it and I chose Basic then on first boot all [OK] checks passed first setup went smoothly Wifi and sound work.
Before anything else I ran df -h and the fresh install size was 4.4G then free -h returned, Mem total 3.7Gi used 666Mi free 2.5Gi shared 60Mi buff/cache 839Mi available 3.1Gi
I went on and installed firefox sudo apt install firefox (it also was the non snap version) Something strange happened that I hadn't seen yet after installing firefox the new programs installed option didn’t show up on the menu so I used the search bar. Youtube videos played nicely good sound and streaming.
I had to use /etc/systemd/resolved.conf again to setup Cloudflare DNS filtering also worked in this edition.
At shutdown all [OK] checks passed.

Trinity Desktop
I went ahead and did the alongside option again and chose the most recent partition to shrink and it installed successfully! Time to reboot. I got to the grub and saw all three options I chose to boot into Desktop edition. All the [OK] checks passed setup went great WiFi and sound work
I ran df – to see the new installation size it returned, 8.3G then after free -h, Mem total 3.7Gi used 700Mi free 2.5Gi shared 60Mi buff/cache 825Mi available 3.0Gi
Firefox already installed and its the non snap. I streamed youtube videos good sound/video
To setup Cloudflare I had to use /etc/systemd/resolved.conf again however filtering works now.
At shutdown all [OK] checks passed.

I then rebooted into each one again all work as before sharing the same time with WiFi and DNS filtering still working.
This concludes all the Trinity editions on this DELL AIO Desktop later in the week I will be testing and installing all three Plasma editions to this HDD (Having all six total)

q4osteam

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Re: Testing Quarkos Resolute All Three Trinity Editions (DELL Inspiron 20)

I will be testing and installing all three Plasma editions to this HDD (Having all six total)

Great +1. Would you please focus on the Basic and Desktop profile at the moment. Did you connect Wifi using the first login setup, or using the icon in the system tray ?

Lilith

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Re: Testing Quarkos Resolute All Three Trinity Editions (DELL Inspiron 20)

I have been connecting to WiFi on the first login setup I haven't used the system tray yet.

Lilith

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Re: Testing Quarkos Resolute All Three Trinity Editions (DELL Inspiron 20)

I went ahead and tested the system tray connection from scratch on both the Full and Basic Trinity editions on the Dell in both editions I deleted the network, successfully reconnected entirely through the system tray, and verified that auto-connect works perfectly after a reboot.