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Why is real workable Linux with GUI so big? Windows XP is sub 1 gig, any Linux distro (real one that is, not Tiny Core Linux) is several times that. What am I supposed to use for my old ThinkPads and EEE PCs?
I don't need anything more than what XP gives me. Just an OS with GUI that can run software. Give me a Linux distro that does the same that Windows XP does, while weighing the same. Is it too much to ask?

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  • 4
    1y
    xp is 20+ years old now. Are you trying to compare modern day linux to it?
    Remeber Dos fitting on a single floppy in the early 90's? Why can't linux fit on a floppy today😭??
  • 0
    1y
    @magicMirror more modern does not automatically mean slower. Modern C and Rust do hold up. At the end of the day, all I ask for is a small Linux-based OS with GUI that can run regular x86_64 and i386 binaries. It shouldn't be that hard.
  • 0
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    @retoor Haiku is good, but it's not Linux. Xfce + anything = more than 1 gig
  • 0
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    @retoor I need a bit more compatibility than Haiku can offer, but Haiku is for sure dope af. I mentioned it in my talk https://miloxeon.com/talks/...
  • 0
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    @Demolishun even x86_64 will do. I don't want TCL not because of the arch restrictions — I don't want it bc of compatibility. I don't want to compile software specifically for my os setup, I want just to download ready to use binaries
  • 0
    1y
    @retoor why not?
  • 0
    1y
    @retoor minimum 512 mb of ram for gui desktop
  • 3
    1y
    Backward compatible hardware support is always difficult to get right. That's the main issue with lighter operating systems.
  • 0
    1y
    Debian with Mate is very clean and to the point. I use VirtualBox on seamless mode and it it works like a charm.
  • 0
    1y
    @magicMirror Dos 5-6 was about 8 floppy disks. You had to install first before windows 3, which was another 8-10 floppies.

    And it took ages to install .
  • 2
    1y
    Go look at art sets.

    In the 2000s, you needed a 1024x768 16 color background and 32x32px icons.

    Today you need 8k 128 bit color movies for a background and icons are a multiple of 6 trillion x 7 trillion.
  • 0
    1y
    @retoor
    Windows 3.11 came on six diskettes. So, you would need six diskettes to install it.
  • 0
    1y
    @retoor I've seen different versions of windows 3.1 (which was named because pi is 3.141) anyway yes, windows could be installed with about 6 floppies, but that's with Dos already installed, the standard packs I remember had at least 10 floppies "diskettes" per pack. I remember them from college looking like packs of cream crackers lol
  • 1
    1y
    @lungdart I… didn’t think about it that way. Good point
  • 1
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    @bazmd wow, I never knew
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