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

  • talEnglish
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    7 days ago

    my goal is not a daily driver with this, but only something nostalgic and the idea to run a computer until it really dies and becomes totally unusable

    Aight, as long as you’re moderating your expectations and interested in it from that aspect. Just don’t want you to spend a lot of time on it and to be disappointed – like, no matter what the OS does, some modern graphical applications are going to have heavy RAM usage relative to what’s in that machine.

    anything craigslist is out of the picture, i’m european

    Sure, but I can’t believe that the global market for used computers is wildly different. If it were, someone would just get into the business of bulk-moving them across international lines, arbitraging them. I’m sure that Europe has analogous services.

    kagis

    https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEurope/comments/15tqw98/what_is_your_countrys_equivalent_of_craigslist/

    There are some there.

    Are those any good?

    I mean, it’s all relative. There are certainly people who like them enough to use them.

    Fluxbox (and blackbox, and openbox) looked kind of similar the last time I was comparing them, which was a long time ago. They look and work more like a conventional Windows windowing environment. They’re older and fairly lightweight.

    I’ve used i3 myself for some time (and use sway now, which is an i3-alike for Wayland), so I don’t have any criticisms of it, but it may or may not be what you want, if you’re not familiar with a tiling windowing environment. It probably wouldn’t be the first thing I’d recommend to someone getting their feet wet with Linux off Windows, as it’s one more thing to become familiar with, and you’re probably going to be doing a fair bit of that already.

    I don’t recall using jwm, and the last time I used icewm was so long ago that I can’t recall anything about it.