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[Trinity] Nice classic look (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/unixporn

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have an old netbook that I was trying to use. It's really slow tho. TOSHIBA NB510. Intel Atom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh damn! Yeah, no, the old Atom series will be slow on anything other than, like, Puppy Linux.

Here are a few distros to try:

Puppy Linux
EasyOS
Fatdog64
Absolute Linux
Legacy OS
Damn Small Linux
Tiny Core
GNU Guix
Debian (use a lightweight WM, like Fluxbox or IceWM)
Arch (again, use a lightweight WM)

And here are some software substitutions:

Firefox -> Konqueror/Netsurf/Dillo/Lynx/Links2/w3m
Thunderbird -> Claws Mail/NeoMutt
LibreOffice -> AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.

You will be able to run Firefox and Chromium, but they will be somewhat sluggish and likely to freeze or crash, in my experience.

Also, the suckless tools are really good for this. Back on my old Raspberry Pi, I used to be able to compile st and surf in under a minute, and dwm ran brilliantly.

~Source: my old Raspberry Pi, although arm-based, and my old MacBook had similar specs.~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

arch with dwm and surf browser and TUI everything :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hey, if you can make it work, it would be a hell of a cool system. Very hacker-y.