Looking just to have another running laptop in the house.
Its a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a nice 1280x1024 screen.
Specs: 120GB PATA HD 1GB RAM, 2GB max Pentium M 1.4GHz ATI 9600
I tried Arch Linux with Budgie, ran like shit. And so did LXDE. Ubuntu was taking 2 hours to install so I gave up. Ran Windows XP fine. Now loading 7 on it just to have it working.
What would this thing run smooth? I'm thinking I make a coffee can directional antenna, and put it on the garage so I can use to to look up car manuals, and shit. Maybe stream music.
Kevin Scott
not even worth the time anymore, not even trolling
t400, x220, t420, t430 are all better options
t400 can be found for $80 and under nowadays with 4gb of ram
Leo Williams
It runs 7 pretty decent. Imma find some ram, and make it work like this. maybe reload some light version of 7 that netbooks used to have
Jack Russell
Arch with i3
Jacob Baker
Lubuntu or Xubuntu for ease of use
Landon Price
Try Crux. The only time consuming part of the install is the kernel compilation. After that, should run as snappy as a pool full of alligators.
Lincoln Russell
Gonna try Lubuntu. I just wish this damn thing would boot of USB. running low on blank discs.
Austin Stewart
Lubuntu or Puppy Dog Linux
but either way it will be a rough time.
Austin Watson
ok, got Lubuntu installed, and upgraded the respositories and shit.
its been like 8 years since I've seriously dabbled in Linux. What do now? config, needed downloads, etc
Jayden Peterson
windows 10
Kevin Stewart
Trash
Cooper Campbell
Don't be an idiot, Windows 10 is heavier than 7 and it became even heavier after the AU.
Brayden Sanchez
my phone has more ram than that
Brody Watson
you're mum has more ram than your phone also
Juan Jenkins
my mom has 8 gb of ram i think
David Ross
Linux Mint with Mate just werks
Ethan Cox
Have a similar rig, literally nothing will feel good on it, man
Easton Bailey
Use Rufus to make liveusb's, it always works for me.
Blake Moore
test btw
Gabriel Watson
No fucking joke, install gentoo.
you can compile it to run on your machine and draw out it's full power at 32-bit. You'll bring back life to it and watch all the chinese cartoons you want at 720p.
Adrian Scott
>t400, x220, t420, t430 are all better options I been seeing x220 for less than $100
Robert Hernandez
> rig
Levi Lewis
windows 8.1 faster than XP SP3 on older machines, benchmarks show.
