any distro with lightweight wm would work. I’d try slackware with windowmaker or fvwm.
Alternatively you can try tinycore, it’s supposed to be blazing fast because the whold system runs on ram.
For web browsing try seamonkey with ematrix for blocking stuff.
During 2022~2024 I used a 2008 Macbook with 5400rpm HDD, 2.5GB ram and its CPU throttled to 800mhz on Slackware15 as my primary machine and it was perfectly usable.
that’s very weird. maybe x11 vs wayland?
i just use yt-dlp with a config that stores all metadata. seems to work fine… but its kinda hassle to find what you need among all downloaded stuff
seamonkey’s a direct descendant of netscape communicator and still includes a wysiwyg editor. it’s pretty good for basic stuff.
email does still seem like the least bad way of receiving stuff from corpos though. I’d rather get emails than whatsapp messages or nonfree apps’ push notification.
wow… i have about 70% on my 2012 9cell and get about 2.5 hours with highly optimized config(slackware, power management, governor, brightness etc). 5-12hrs with a core2duo sounds very good.
still couldn’t find a proper new battery, hope i score one soon
Just curious but how do you manage to keep the X200T/T500’s battery alive? Even my X220’s is almost dead by now. Do you have it plugged in 24/7?
fully agree. i usually sacrifice one of my less used keys and bind it as a left mouse click instead.
offtopic but your english is great :)
selection autocopy and wheel/shift ins pasting is superior to all alternatives imo
This is awesome. I hope the students don’t start enjoying xbill :p
I don’t hate it, but as a PC/phone user it’s security features are almost never helpful and always cause issues so I just have it disabled.
i’ve never used linux mint and i’m curious, how does it differentiate from debian? Might not matter much, but i recall hearing they have their own package with the xedit name so one can’t install the original xedit and that’s not really great packaging.
That’s weird, I’ve made over 20 fresh debian installs and they were all successful without such glitch. The commandline installer is more stable though. (had a few displaying distorted screen in gui mode for some reason)
Yeah sure but they do force snap for some packages (while making it look like apt running) and it isn’t ideal. I don’t see any reason to use ubuntu over debian unless I’m some corporation that needs to run the same version for 10 years with their subscription.
#1. The distro matters, but not much tbh. The main difference is usually the package manager being used, the default DE/WM, init system (sysvinit/systemd/openrc), and the variant of packages they ship. #2. Avoid Ubuntu if so. #3. I recommend Debian stable. #4. Can’t say much about HDR, multiple monitors are probably fine. (different refresh rate and such can be a hassle to configure tho) #5. Yes KDE is a good choice.
+Photoshop/VS probably runs in WINE but I’m not sure. You might need VM.
Looks fantastic, I’ll actually be trying this. Love how it doesn’t lock my files into some obscure format like seafiles.