• Hellfire103@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago
    • Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux
    • Init: SysVinit
    • Desktop: Trinity
    • UI Theme: Tragedy2
    • Icon Theme: Crystal SVG
    • Cursors: wonderland (from Mageia)
    • OMZ Theme: simple
    • Wallpaper: The Bay (builtin)
    • Victor@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      Oh my god, Crystal icon theme. I remember that so well. Super classic, dude. A+. 👏

    • Hellfire103@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      You probably could, but you’d need to use twin instead of Xfwm in order for the deKorator theme to work.

        • Hellfire103@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          It’s an Acer Aspire 5742z: a chunky old laptop from 2009.

          It requires proprietary WiFi drivers and only has one working USB port because the other two are on a separate board connected to the motherboard by a ribbon cable that seems to have shrunk by a millimetre or two over the years, so it no-longer reaches the contacts.

          The keyboard has a decent amount of travel and it’s easy to clean with compressed air. However, the keys are a bit harder to press than on other keyboards I have, so it’s easy to miss out letters when typing quickly. It’s also difficult to put the keys back on once removed; but at least they are removable.

          The performance is okay, and I had to pull some extra RAM out of another machine to get it to run smoothly. This machine originally only had 3GB. However, it is easy to upgrade and repair.

          To be honest, you’d probably be better off with a late-2000s ThinkPad or a mid-2010s MacBook.

            • Hellfire103@lemmy.caOPEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Oh damn! Yeah, no, the old Atom series will be slow on anything other than, like, Puppy Linux.

              Here are a few distros to try:

              • Puppy Linux
              • EasyOS
              • Fatdog64
              • Absolute Linux
              • Legacy OS
              • Damn Small Linux
              • Tiny Core
              • GNU Guix
              • Debian (use a lightweight WM, like Fluxbox or IceWM)
              • Arch (again, use a lightweight WM)

              And here are some software substitutions:

              • Firefox -> Konqueror/Netsurf/Dillo/Lynx/Links2/w3m
              • Thunderbird -> Claws Mail/NeoMutt
              • LibreOffice -> AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.

              You will be able to run Firefox and Chromium, but they will be somewhat sluggish and likely to freeze or crash, in my experience.

              Also, the suckless tools are really good for this. Back on my old Raspberry Pi, I used to be able to compile st and surf in under a minute, and dwm ran brilliantly.

              ~Source: my old Raspberry Pi, although arm-based, and my old MacBook had similar specs.~