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  • kanzalibrary
    41·
    10 months ago

    AntiX wouldn’t let me install any packages or update. It would keep telling me I needed to wait a few hours to access the repos. I did like how you could swap between several desktop environments easily.

    Just manual change the repo and problem solved…

    And I need to clarify this because AntiX IMO, under category Permacomputing for low power consumption without too much sacrificing the function than others [in my experiment].

        • Montagge@kbin.earth
          1·
          10 months ago

          Gotcha! I’ve never done that before so it didn’t occur to me to do it.

          Luckily Xubuntu did the trick on that old laptop

          • kanzalibrary
            1·
            10 months ago

            Luckily Xubuntu did the trick on that old laptop

            yeah, because ubuntu have more stable repo server than antix. but if i comparison two of them in power consumption, antix used less power 3x in ram than xubun.