14 DAY TRIAL // XPQ4 is a funky open source theme that aims to provide Linux users with the look and feel of a Windows desktop. It might seem weird at first, but this is probably one of the most advanced solutions available right now.
Some of the desktop environments available on the Linux platform have a similar design with the one used on Windows, but it only relates to placement and nothing else. The app launcher might be in the same place, but most other similarities have dissipated over the year. That doesn't mean that some designers and developers are not still trying to recapture that design.
It was a time, a few years back when KDE looked a lot like Windows, but that desktop environment has evolved tremendously since then. Before new versions were made available for KDE, a group of devs forked it and created Trinity DE. This other desktop has managed to retain the overall design and feel of Windows OSes, and it's now implemented in other distros, the most prominent being Q4OS.
In any case, Q4OS has almost reached version 1.0, and the makers of the XPQ4 theme have just released an update that should be easy to install on this Linux operating system. All you need to see what XPQ4 looks like is an installed Q4OS (no live version is available right now).
The instructions for the installation are pretty simple. Users need to download the self-extracting XPQ4 installer, double click it from the Q4OS file manager and follow setup instructions and install the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package from the repository.
You can download XPQ4 right now from Softpedia. Technically, the theme should be able to work on other KDE-powered systems, but it can easily mess your OS as well. If you really want to give it a try outside of Q4OS, please make sure that you're not using a production machine.
