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What am I looking at (besides a generic neofetch on hardware that can't load Google.com)
It's Bazzite on wildly impractical hardware. I had the installer on my ventoy USB and decided to try and install it on my crapbook for shits and giggles.
No, it doesn't run well. But to be fair, I also had Firefox open on another desktop with the only open tab being Lemmy.
by crapbook, are you referring to a Chromebook?
No, sadly, it shipped with windows 8.1. Chrome OS would have at least made sense.
That's exactly it, Bazzite, a distro associated with gaming, running on hardware that even at release was criticized for being "landfill fodder".
I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.
How did you make it usable? I personally love restoring and making use out of severely-underpowered hardware and still have an old netbook lying around, so I'm curious to hear what you did with yours :o
I heard adélie Linux is really good for slow and old hardware. action retro - Adélie Linux on a Pentium 4 laptop
I haven't used it myself but I've seen this guy throw it on old mac's for a while and this was particularly impressive.
It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I'm pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don't think I even used LXDE. Didn't need to do much.
I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.
I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.
It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.