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A friend of mine was throwing away her old laptop computers, recycling, really. Naturally I asked if I could have them. If I can't use them for anything then I will recycle them. Got a Toshiba Satellite and an Acer Aspire mini. The Toshiba had a broken screen and was slow as shit but it did have a good HD in it and a 1 gig mem stick so I kept those. The Acer had a crap 8gig drive and 256m of onboard. I put the 1gig stick in it and a 125G Kensington SSD drive I had in a box downstairs. At first I put Lubuntu on it but decided I wanted a (fucking stolen!) Microsoft product so I loaded in Tiny7. Using it now on my back deck to see what it's like. It's faster than my Inspirion but I have to lean way close to see anything. It's better than a phone because of the real keyboard, even if it's built for people with fingers like pipe cleaners.

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Update: putting Debian in the Acer mini. Results to follow

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Sucks, back to XP.

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What did you not like about it?
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The machine is an Acer 1.5Ghz laptop with 1.5 gigs of ram. When I click on a file navigation window it takes five seconds to open. At one time those specs were cutting edge. I want an OS that bang-zooms it's internal stuff when I ask it to.

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Eh, going to try putting Windows 98 or 95 in it. Boot disc in my usb floppy drive and all the .cab files on a flash drive

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AArdvark wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 9:06 am Eh, going to try putting Windows 98 or 95 in it. Boot disc in my usb floppy drive and all the .cab files on a flash drive
Try a Linux distro that uses either LXQT or XFCE for the desktop. That is fast even on 20 year old machines.


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RealNC has the goooooooooood shit.
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What I want is for the laptop to boot right into a Commodore emulator. The Acer is going to be my C64 machine. But it needs to do it fast, fast. I was considering Dos 6.2 but there's driver issues. XP works except it's slow as fudge.

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Update: put Q40S Linux something-something in the Acer. Win98 has memory issues and keeps BSOD-ing me. I put the Commodore emulator in my Dell. I thought the charging port was messed up because the power cord would run the machine but it wouldn't charge the battery. Turns out I needed a new Dell charging cable, it fixed everything. Yay.

Rolled my desktop pc back to 7. Win10 used to go through this awful malware scan every time I turned the machine on. It sounded like a coffee grinder and practically locked the pc up for the first fifteen minutes. Plus the added fun of updates that do nothing every month. 10 was OK but too clunky, 7 is pretty fast. I never had 7 in this machine before because I never figured out the legacy BIOS/UEFI settings before yesterday.

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I set my Ubuntu machine to upgrade last night. I went into the terminal today and it is displaying a "[OS^" character when it waits for input, or before it outputs anything. It has made the terminal totally unusable.

I don't care how or why it happens. They have to test this stuff, fix it and BE BETTER.
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I installed zsh and then ohmyzh and I guess it is fixed. I should have had that installed anyway. I just didn't. GET OFF ME. STOP. STOP. STOOOOOOPPPPP. Okay. God. Stop. All right it's there, Jesus.
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