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@Gregozor2121 Now you need 16GB RAM to play FTB Infinity without lag.
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@mt3o thanks for the suggestion, but I doubt that this legacy CPU will be able to compile software in any reasonable amount of time. It's also not a PC that I'll be using, it's a deployment for a different (and rather non-technical) person with average Windows user technical intellect. So yeah.. as for the Raspberry Pi's, I've got 4 of those here but I don't intend to replace this craptop with that.. I don't have any use for this piece of junk, but for the Raspberry Pi's I definitely do. With that said, that's the killer for me.. the thorn in the eye, so to say. A €35 device at a fraction of the laptop's size that nonetheless has double the specs and even that being quite a constrained piece of hardware for anything graphical. Playing Facebook games on something with 500MB RAM (which is what the user will be using it for apparently), is that even possible, let alone reasonable?
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@nataliajohnson I haven't tried Puppy on this laptop yet.. but I definitely should. Thanks for the suggestion! Also welcome to devRant 😁
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@Condor i'd avoid even accessing fb on that laptop :)
Regarding gentoo - you can cross-compile packages on separate machine and then install them on the craptop. That's what most people do when they use Gentoo on weak machines, like in rpi. I did this years ago and wasn't that hard. It should be pretty easy with their documentation. -
@mt3o oh, that's good to know! In my own setup that'd probably prove useful at some point, as my own laptop isn't very powerful either (but it's got 8GB of RAM at least, just that its cooling system is complete garbage).. but my virtualization server is pretty good for the occasional compilation. The target user however doesn't have any other PC's other than this one.. and for the money that I'll be getting from it (€20) I don't really feel like becoming a Compiler as a Service (next buzzword, CaaS! 😜) so there's that.
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@mishaor I've noticed some strange issues in there when installing a WM, so I don't think that I'll be going that route.. also considering that it's a community project rather than an officially supported one so support and reliability can't be guaranteed etc etc. For me that wouldn't be a problem, but for someone nontechnical I don't think that I'd want to settle with that. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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@kakbrus wat.. keep your spam out of here ffs.
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Odd, I thought I reported this Alison bot earlier... @dfox could you remove these please?
@PrivateGER haha, now that you mention it XD and also very competetly done! 😂 -
@Oliviaspencer *on time. How are you gonna write my essay if you can't even formulate a proper sentence?
So I finally got my head out of my ass and decided to install some OS on that 500MB RAM legacy craptop from earlier.
*installs Tiny Core Linux*
Hmm.. how do I install extra packages into this thing again? *Googles how to install packages*
Aha, extensions it's called.. and you install them through their little package manager GUI, and then you also have to dick around with some TCE directory, and boot options for that. Well I ain't gonna do that. Why the fuck would I need to dick around with that? Just install the fucking files in /bin, /var, /etc and whatever the fuck you need to like a decent distro. I'll fucking load them whenever I need them, BY EXECUTING THE FUCKING BINARY. But no, apparently that's not how TCL works.
Also, why the fuck is this keyboard still set to US? I'm using a Belgian keyboard for fuck's sake.. "loadkeys be-latin1"
> Command not found.
Okay... (fucking piece of shit) how do I change the fucking keyboard layout for this shit?!
*does the jazz hand routine required for that*
So apparently I need to install a package for that as well. Oh wait, an EXTENSION!! My bad. And then you can use "loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/something/something" to load the keyboard layout. Except that it doesn't change the fucking keymap at all! ONE FUCKING JOB, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!
That's fucking it. No more dicking around in TCL. If I wanted to fuck around with the system this much, I'd have compiled my own custom Linux system. Maybe I can settle with Arch Linux, that's a familiar distro to me.. I can easily install openbox in that and call it a day. But this is an i686 machine.. Arch doesn't support that anymore, does it?
*does another jazz hand routine on Arch Linux 32 and sees that there's a community-maintained project just for that*
Oh God bless you fine Arch Linux users for making a community fork!! I fucking love you.. thank you so much!! Arch it'll be then <3
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