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On 4/26/2017 at 9:13 AM, BristolBrick said:

I have a Hewlett Packard C1405B from 1992.

It is so old it has no windows key.

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It's not actually mechanical. But It does a damn good job. Having compared it to a mech (high end one too) it is arguably better. It's noisy, it feels great to type on (even compared to a $350 mech keyboard)

I have a similar one (forget the model number), i thought it felt pretty great when I picked it up but I realized it was pretty meh when I compared it to the blues in my QFR. I still use it occasionally though

Have you tried Lubuntu or Xubuntu? Both are very lightweight distros, good for a low spec laptop like that one (Lubuntu is lighter though). If you have and they didn't work, I can suggest a couple others.

EDIT:

Lubuntu

Xubuntu

3 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

Im a linux user too, in my experience for the software that is required for everyday use you dont even need to touch the terminal or fiddle with .deb files .

You're right, I guess most people wouldn't need to touch the terminal, they'll probably install OpenOffice and Google Chrome and call it a day. I like to fiddle and tweak, so I guess my view is kind of skewed on that.

10 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

You dont even have to deal with deb packages nowadays. There is a convinient gui application for software installation and updating.

I know, I'm typing this from an Ubuntu machine as we speak, so I know what you mean, but it's not always that simple. That "not always" is what I think really holds Linux back from becoming mainstream.

Wait, it's seriously called the Portal? It (the white one at least) looks eerily similar to the sentry bots from Portal, that name can't be a coincidence...

2 hours ago, crisro996 said:

"Hey there, Jack? Just got a new laptop, can you set it up for me please?"

"Sure, what Windows version do you want?"
"No idea"

"Ok, I'll bring the Windows 7 USB"

 

And that's how you do it. 

 

This just came to mind, even easier than the first one:

 

"Hello Jack, I want a new laptop for around 800 bucks"

"Sure, do you want to play DVDs on it?"

"Yeah, I want to listen to my Julio Iglesias albums"

"Sure thing. I'll go get one and set it up for you"

Sure, but that's a little out of context. zMeul was talking about pirating Windows. Even in that situation they'd be dealing with either buying a key, hoping Jack has a couple spare keys, or leaving it inactivated (which yes, is still usable, but it isn't a perfect situation). I think the conversation would be more like,

"Hey Jack, I just bought this cheap computer and I can't get Norton to install! And Windows looks real strange, they changed everything!"

"...please tell me the wallpaper isn't orange?"

"Yeah it is, why? Do I have a virus?"

"No, Tim, you bought a laptop with Ubuntu on it. I'll be right over with the Windows 7 disc"

You're right on the second one, that'd definitely be better, although I can't imagine that happens very often.

I'm not really sure what the point I'm trying to make here is, other than that I think Linux prebuilts could be a good idea in some cases, it's really not for the general public. Too many people can't even figure out how to set up their printer, let alone install a .deb package.

I have the Athlon badge, Powered By EVGA badge, and the HyperX badge on the front of my PC, but my case was already ugly so it didn't matter. My laptop has all of them removed because they annoy me much much more 

5 hours ago, zMeul said:

"have to"!?!?

they won't buy a windows licence .. do I need to spell it out?

The majority of people wouldn't know how to do that though. Sure, you do, and so do most of us on this forum, but for the most part anyone who buys a machine with Linux because it's cheaper is going to be in for a shock when they boot it up and are greeted by the Ubuntu logo. Most consumers are extremely poorly informed. Remember this video?

Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out Of College . I'm all for Linux coming on pre-builts, but I'm afraid that this is what will happen, and that it'll hurt us (the Linux community) more than help us

4 hours ago, zMeul said:

mate, they dump the linux installation that's already there and they install windows

they don't buy the linux systems because linux, they buy it because it's cheaper

That wouldn't make any sense at all, even if the device was cheaper with Linux, they'd still have to buy a Windows licence after the fact and it would be just as/more expensive?

Unless you're saying they would just blindly buy it because it's cheaper and have to buy a Windows license because they don't understand Linux and end up paying more (which definitely has happened), then forget everything I said. I'd love to see more Linux pre-builts, but sadly I think this is what would happen all too often.

• Hotline Miami
• A Story About My Uncle
• Audiosurf
• The Stanley Parable
• Portal/Portal 2
• Postal 2

Those are the games in my library that I play when I don't want to play anything too stressful/just want to chill

SSDs for my laptop and desktop, hands down.

Bebian? Hannah Montana Linux? Rebecca Black OS? Ubuntu Christian/Satanic Edition?

3 minutes ago, Name Taken said:

/usr/bin/shred can be used on specific files as well as partition/disks.

This is what I usually use. OP, type "shred -v /dev/sda" and it should write zeros over everything on the disk 3 times by default. All you would need to do is burn an Arch Linux ISO to a USB drive, and type that command when you load the system.

1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

holy crap its a P3. try something like DSL or puppy linux. Arch linux should work

this was made to run on old hardware. its a bit dated now but should work

http://damnsmalllinux.org

26 minutes ago, Azgoth 2 said:

DSL has been abandoned for years now--latest release was four years ago, and I don't think there's been much development done on it since.  I personally wouldn't recommend it, though it might run on those specs.

 

Puppy Linux, though, would be a good one to try, especially if you swap out the desktop environment for something like plain Openbox or i3, but I worry that the really low RAM on the machine might still be an issue.

 

Four other ones to look into, though:

• SliTaz, which is designed to be ultra low-resource use, and will load entirely into memory for maximum speed.  But given your 128MB RAM limit, this will be a tight squeeze.  You may be able to get far enough under that if you pull one of the more minimalist spins of the distro and, again, switch to one of the ultra lightweight desktop environments.
• Tiny Core, which is...tiny.  The .iso is about 15MB, but it comes with basically nothing pre-installed.  (There's a 100MB .iso with more stuff, though, which you might want to try for usability's sake before jumping to the smaller one).  This actually spun off of Damn Small Linux a while back.
• Nano Linux, which is like Tiny Core, but packs more stuff in and is designed to be more usable.
• A non-Linux one this time: Kolibri OS.  This is a super neat project, since it's an OS written entirely in assembly.  You can probably run it on a potato.  It might run really snappily even on your setup, but beware that you'll have extremely limited software options compared to anything else on this list.  And it might not be at all intuitive or user-friendly at first, since the design paradigm is pretty different.

I'm going to give Arch one more try, then if that doesn't work I'll give Tiny Core a shot. Thanks!

2 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

yea i know , but it runs on everything , and you will be able to find drivers , and w/ unofficial updates it can run modern software even 

Oh, you were being serious. I thought you were trying to be sarcastic. I think it came with Windows 2000, but by the time I got my hands on it, it was on XP.  That'd be interesting to try if I can't get anything else to work, but I'm pretty keen on using Linux

9 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

win2k

Insightful, thanks.

Funny, never thought I'd have to make a post like this. I'm trying to revive an old Dell Inspiron 8000 just for shits and giggles, and so far I haven't had much luck. The two biggest problems are the lack of a wireless connection (I have a PCMCIA card, but I can't find the driver for it), and the ATI M4 gpu (this might be a hardware issue, but the screen gets distorted at times). I need advice on what distro to use.

So far, I've tried Xubuntu (ran very poorly, couldn't figure out how to set up wifi driver), Absolute Linux (graphics issues out the wazoo, couldn't do anything) and Legacy OS (would've been perfect, even managed to install the wifi driver, but it has no support for WPA2), and I've been unable to get Arch, Lubuntu, and BunsenLabs to even boot to the installer properly. Also, let me note that this machine doesn't support USB boot, so I have to burn a CD for every distro I try.

I think Arch or Gentoo + i3 or OpenBox would be my best bet, but Arch won't boot (although I read that it might be an issue with the way Windows burns CDs, I'm going to try again on that), and Gentoo will probably NEVER compile on that machine. TL;DR I think what I'm really asking, is where would I find the best support for the ATI M4 and the Dell Wireless 1350 PCMCIA card?

Specs of laptop:

850Mhz Pentium 3

128MB RAM

ATI M4 GPU

Dell Wireless 1350 PCMCIA networking card

High capacity drives. I remember when all I had was my laptop with a 150GB HDD (Which I swapped out with a 120GB SSD, which also spoils me) and I was always deleting stuff, but now my PC has two 1TB HDDs, and I could add more if I really wanted.

Android phones, though this one is still kinda up in the air. I switched to an iPhone SE from my 2014 Droid Turbo because it was the cheapest option available on VZW, and it just shocks me sometimes to find out that iOS still doesn't have certain features (battery stats & data usage graph are missed for sure). The iOS Fleksy keyboard pales in comparison to the Android version (crashes, doesn't work with Firefox??, other weird things). Firefox doesn't have extensions, which means I don't have an ad blocker in my browser anymore. 

4G LTE, because holy hell is 3G slow.

My CM Storm Quickfire Rapid with MX Blue switches. I HATE typing on membrane keyboards now. I've considered on multiple occasions bringing it into school for my programming class, but I have a feeling that my classmates would hate me...

Top 5, no specific order.

• KDE Neon (up to date, looks great, cool concept)
• Xubuntu (Stable as can be, extremely customizeable [note: that's because of xFCE, which can be installed on any distro)
• Fedora (rock solid stable, extremely up to date)
• Arch/Arch-based (you've all heard the reasons to use Arch repeated over and over, I won't go into it)
• OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (same as Fedora)

On 10/23/2016 at 10:15 AM, RypeDub said:

 

What makes Macs live so long is how locked down their version of Debian Linux is. At macOS's core is Debuan Linux, and they even removed apt-get lol

 

 

I love macOS, it's soooo clean. It's fricken stable and if you spend time to expand the Debian system core: it's probably the best system you'll ever use (besides crap support for Graphics hardware in terms of Gaming).

 

I'm sorry, I hate to be that guy, but how has nobody corrected you on this yet? macOS is not based on the Linux kernel, and is definitely not Debian. macOS runs on the Darwin XNU kernel, which is based on the BSD kernel. They have similarities, but are also very different and shouldn't be confused. I'm not going to lecture you on this, but I just had to point it out.

Linux Kernel 

BSD
Darwin

macOS

Debian

EDIT: I read my own links, and Darwin is apparently the name of macOS itself, which runs on the XNU kernel. The more you know I guess?

I have 51 (a couple are freebies)

1: Skyrim

2: Fallout 4

3: Bioshock Infinite/Dishonored 

I think you have two choices here. Use a Windows install CD/USB to repair the Windows bootloader, or install a different Linux distro (making sure not to overwrite your Windows partition), and run "sudo update-grub" after installing. 

I do, but only because my laptop was already ugly to begin with. I don't stickerbomb it quite like you, OP, but I have a few placed around the lid (3 Android stickers right in the middle, a couple skateboard company stickers, and an Elder Scrolls sticker). Doesn't exactly look professional, but then again I am not a professional, so I could care less lol

14 hours ago, johnmhigh said:

So first off, the readout thing on the desktop on the right had side, its only giving my my system usage info and processing that are running nothing else, do i need to set this up?

I'm assuming that is a Conky script, and they can be customized to show different information. Conky Homepage Arch Wiki: Conky

14 hours ago, johnmhigh said:

Second is a problem im having with steam, i have most of my games on other drives, when i try and add the folders it just says "new steam libary folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions"

Were the games previously installed in Windows/are those drives formatted in NTFS (windows file system) or a Linux filesystem like ext4 or some type of FAT? If so, you need to either move the games off those drives and format it to a Linux FS, or you need to install the Linux versions of those games. 

14 hours ago, johnmhigh said:

Third is i have a Corsair K40 keyboard and a R.A.T 3 mouse. i cant change the backlight on the keyboard, the media keys work fine tho. As for the mouse it works for awhile then i cant click anything, swapped out for a old "basic" mouse and that works fine.

I'm not sure what the problem with the RAT3 might be, but (I'm assuming?) the K40 requires a proprietary Windows program for the backlight colors, which you may be able to run through Wine, but no promises on that.