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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What am I looking at (besides a generic neofetch on hardware that can't load Google.com)

[-] AlligatorBlizzard 51 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

by crapbook, are you referring to a Chromebook?

[-] AlligatorBlizzard 4 points 1 week ago

No, sadly, it shipped with windows 8.1. Chrome OS would have at least made sense.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

That's exactly it, Bazzite, a distro associated with gaming, running on hardware that even at release was criticized for being "landfill fodder".

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

hehe funny sex number

(69 Flatpaks)

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Also Linux version 6.9.4-201

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Oooh, I missed that. Nice!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Why? Also you can buy more ram. It isn't super cheap but it isn't expensive either.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I wanted to get more ram for my notebook however it's soldered to the board with no extra DIMM or storage options.

It's an old satellite from Toshiba, 4gb ram, dual core intel, 64gb emmc. Serves it's purpose running a bare bones (ish) install of Nix.

Really hate ewaste hardware.

[-] Titou 2 points 1 week ago

Ayo 1.47Gb ram consumption on idle ?!

[-] AlligatorBlizzard 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mentioned this elsewhere but this hyfetch isn't actually fair to the crapbook. I had Firefox open as well, with Lemmy as the only open tab (so it's totally usable, who needs to do anything other than post on Lemmy?). It was actually 1.03 Gb ram consumption on the terminal after closing Firefox.

Glados the crapbook is now running bunsenlabs and it's sitting at 745M on the desktop according to conky.

[-] Titou 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

745M is still kinda much, when i was using xfce in idle i never reached more than 500M

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

My fedora KDE usee like 1.7G minimum and ~2.5G agter opening some apps and closing all of them

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

I dont get why that is really

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What -fetch program is that?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

Please install Arch Linux + Enlightenment

[-] AlligatorBlizzard 9 points 1 week ago

Nah, I actually really liked bunsenlabs when I tried running it live, so I'm going to install that, at least for a bit. I might try a different DE with Debian, XFCE was fine but not amazing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You could also go with no DE and check out Fluxbox, i3, or sway. There's something about Fluxbox that's still charming all these years later.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe try Alpine?

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

Try out void, it's pretty fire

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I can agree with Arch but recommend Sway ;)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I tried to install arch like three times, it would hang during the nvdia driver install, then it would black screen during logging in, but now i suspect its because i clicked the option to comeplete the boot files on rufus and now am myself on bazzite

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Weird request but ok

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