I digged out my dad’s old business laptop from 2006. This Asus rust is almost as old as me. But it booted up a horribly slow Windows 7 Home Premium that is totally unusable. Takes 30-40 minutes to open Chrome. Here are the specs: 40 gb old hard drive that is suprisingly healthy (96℅ according to HDDsentinel, more than 1000 days left) 1.73 ghz Intel Celeron M single core cpu that wasn’t exactly the fastest even in 2006 1.25 gb of terribly slow RAM American Megatrends BIOS from 2006 I know Linux can’t do miracles, but are there any still supported distro i could install that would actually run better than this shitty windows stuff?
I found puppy slitaz antix tahrpup ArchBang Slax Delicate Damn Small Linux Absolute FunOS LegacyOS exe gnu/linux Do you know others? Or from these which you recommend if my goal is to create a relatively useable, faster computer, preferably while it doesn’t look that awful (the desktop or wm). So usability>speed>looks But all these are very important, just in this order. Also recommend a desktop enviroment or a window manager that runs well, but doesn’t look that awful and can be installed on these distros
SATA started rolling out in drive around 2003/2004, it’s possible. My 08 laptop had a Sata ssd.
Just throw Arch/ Alpine on it with sway. If you need a full DE, LXQT is pretty light weight but even plasma is not too expensive tbh.
i’d rather burn it than install ANY kde on that. Arch can get into consideration, maybe. Alpine not because i don’t hate myself enough to use non-gnu linux. This is a 2006 laptop, and not a high-end one. 40 gb hdd. I’m sure as hell it isn’t sata. Sata only started appearing around 2010 in systems that were affordable for a mortal human
What’s wrong with non-GNU Linux? I’m using Alpine with Gnome DE on my old laptop (3rd generation Core i3, 4GB RAM). It feels much faster than Linux Mint Cinnamon.
extremely hard to use. I could install netBSD and Arch, used Tumbleweed, but any non-gnu Linux is beyond me
SATA was definitely around before 2010 in consumer hardware. Nonetheless, Alpine is a great distribution and gnu software is packaged for it and freely available. I believe it is busybox by default.
It is musl, but in my experience that’s not much of an issue.
Have you had problems with KDE in the past? I typically use i3 but the QT framework is great.
kde is not a problem on high-end hardware. But recommending for this laptop is batshit insane. The fact that you use i3 explains a lot. That’s much more lightweight than kde