The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is a desktop environment with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers.
Born as a fork of KDE 3.5 back in 2010, TDE is now a fully independent project, available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS.
This desktop environment has tons of features and is extremely light, especially if you use TDE applications. It is an excellent choice for older computers.
Here is a list of native applications:
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/applications.php
For this howto, we’ll install a stable build of TDE.
First, add the correct repositories to your sources.list
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# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
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# Trinity stable builds
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.0.x bullseye main
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.x bullseye main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.0.x bullseye main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.x bullseye main
Download and install the repository keyring.
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$ wget http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-keyring.deb
# dpkg -i trinity-keyring.deb
Note: The tde-trinity package is a comprehensive meta-package. To install a minimalist environment, replace tde-trinity with tdebase-trinity in the instructions below.
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# apt update
# aptitude install tde-trinity
The syntax of the localization files is tde-i18n-XX-trinity, so Norwegian (nynorsk) is for instance
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# aptitude install tde-i18n-nn-trinity
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# apt-get update && aptitude full-upgrade