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The Superior Lemmy Experience (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market.

As one should always do xD

I am a die-hard Linux user, but damn if I don't miss Windows 2000. It was minimalist, stable, and got the job done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I initially tried to run debian 12 with xfce on it but it was horribly slow (looked like a gpu driver issue, didnt care enough to troubleshoot) so I decided to go the win2k route

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I've never had a good experience with Linux on any Peintium 4 (though II and III worked great). The last time I tried was on an old P4 IBM ThinkCenter. Like you said, could be GPU, but even non-graphics tasks were sluggish on it.