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  • Re: laptops

    From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to HusTler on Mon Nov 16 20:37:24 2020
    Re: Re: laptops
    By: HusTler to Tracker1 on Wed Nov 04 2020 12:11:58

    Lubuntu has been my OS of choice for about 6 years now. Recently I felt li a change so now I'm duel booting into Lubuntu and Puppy Linux. So far I'm enjoying Puppy. It's chock full of every utility you can think of and more. It's blazing fast. I'll give my full report in about 6 months. :-).

    I might have to give that a shot for one of my ancient laptops around here. I've found OpenBSD to work decently on one of them, but I'd really like something with a little more native software available.

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to poindexter FORTRAN, Moond on Sun Nov 29 09:52:44 2020
    Re: Re: laptops
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Thu Oct 29 2020 06:34 am

    Lubuntu is another fine choice for low-end systems. Uses LXDE and a
    selection of smaller-footprint apps than vanilla Ubuntu. I ran it
    well on single-core Thinkpads with a gig of RAM for years.

    I have an old thinkpad with a duo core and 4gb of Ram that came with Windows 8 Stock. It still has the old Windows 7 build I replaced the base system with, but I'm playing with Linux Distros now. Mint on xkde gets me good performance, but I'm finding it limited in terms of trying to get things set up the way I want. Namely, I'm having a hard time replacing with window managers and default terminal. I hope replacing my shell commands won't be hard either. I'm only a day in since having dropped Linux in Highschool.

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Tracker1 on Sun Nov 29 09:57:33 2020
    Re: Re: laptops
    By: Tracker1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 03 2020 03:52 pm

    From what they've done with iOS devices, seriously doubtful. Today's
    Apple products are tomorrow's e-waste.

    That's just more loot for me, the dumpster diver who's desk is made of two metal trashcans keeping up a surface that's made of two flat cardboard boxes ducktaped together, and filled with trash to add structral integrity.

    Shit, with all that spare mineral resources I can take to the recycler plant, I'll have enough money to get a bus ticket to the city so I can steal a bike and take it apart and put it back together in my garage for hours.

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