{"id":213434,"date":"2026-02-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-classic-linux-distro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:45:10","slug":"im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-classic-linux-distro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-classic-linux-distro\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro\/\">I&#8217;m going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-14 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I&#8217;m going to start using a new distro on the secondary disk drive on my Linux laptop. It&#8217;s one that had escaped my notice for a long time, but I was pretty sure I&#8217;d struck gold when I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>Q4OS has been around since 2014 when Windows XP reached end-of-life. Given that Windows 10 similarly reached its technical expiration date last year, and Q4OS is still seeing development, I thought it&#8217;s the perfect time to give this Linux distribution a try.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t5 Windows-like Linux distros you should try out<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Ease yourself into Linux with a Windows-like desktop.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"q4os-uses-trinity-keeping-the-old-kde-style\">\n                        Q4OS uses Trinity, keeping the old KDE style<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>                                                                              &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/a-laptop-screen-showing-the-q4os-welcome-message-and-desktop.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-213434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213436,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213434\/revisions\/213436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}