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[-] knolord@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

That's exactly it, Bazzite, a distro associated with gaming, running on hardware that even at release was criticized for being "landfill fodder".

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

How did you make it usable? I personally love restoring and making use out of severely-underpowered hardware and still have an old netbook lying around, so I'm curious to hear what you did with yours :o

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago

It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I'm pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don't think I even used LXDE. Didn't need to do much.

I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.

I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.

It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I heard adélie Linux is really good for slow and old hardware. action retro - Adélie Linux on a Pentium 4 laptop

I haven't used it myself but I've seen this guy throw it on old mac's for a while and this was particularly impressive.

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