Hi. I'm new here and the forum helped out a few times resolving some issues. I'm not new to Linux really, just haven't had time to play with it much over the past decade. I decided to play with the new Ubuntu 24.04 on a new computer with up to date hardware. The install was quirky and took me a few tries getting Ubuntu up and running. I was initially faced with a few errors most of which had to do with permissions. Frustrating but fixable with some searching. I'm not a Gnome fan so I decided to do something. Basically I removed and disabled snap and added the Trinity repository, an did a minimal Trinity install. I kinda liked Kde 3.5 back in the day. I made sure Trinity loaded and worked and fixed it up a little. Then I completely purged ubuntu desktop and all of Gnome despite so many advising against it in my searching. I expected to run into trouble, but to my surprise all went well. I added quite a few non trinity apps, some from Plasma a few gnome that didnt require a whole lot of dependencies. Trinity works well mixed with a few plasma apps. I thought it would create problems. Adding qt5 config with a good gtk theme all is uniform and looks great. It was an experiment that went so well, i took the time to iron out some bugs. Stress tested everything with some intense bleach bit cleaning and serious apt cleaning, rebooting a ton of times trying to find bugs. Anyway, its solid, on going, and pretty cool. Nostalgic old DE running on state of art hardware. Bluetooth was a pain in butt though! Trinity's blueman backend wouldn't work for me. Removing blueman and connecting Bluetooth using Bluetooth-tools through cli worked like a charm. Setting up a dlna media server was painless. So basically, Trinity is usable and actually very cool. It's light weight compared to many DE's except for Fluxbox maybe, which use to be my fav long ago. Having too much fun with Trinity as a stand alone DE on Ubuntu 24.04. Cannon Printer through wifi connected like a charm. Anyway, It was a shot in the dark experiment that turned out rather cool. .... So Hi everyone 
