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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ten year old laptop is 2013 (this post seems to be from 2023). That's really not old at all. I use a 17 year old machine and it works great for basic tasks.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

17? As in 2007? What are the specs on that thing? You running a lightweight linux distro on it? Surely you have an SSD in there and have upgraded the ram.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

linux on an ssd without a DE goes hard as fuck on anything that has no beans in it what so ever.

WM are the shit.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can run KDE just fine on a ThinkPad T61 from 2007

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's interesting how light KDE has gotten. It used to be the big, bloated desktop environment that you wouldn't even try using on old hardware. It seems to have traded places with GNOME.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Gnome isn't really bloated either. I've seen people run Gnome on a T400 (2008)

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

probably? Kde is a little spicy, but i'd be surprised if it wasn't usable to be honest.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's not like I have a choice. If I stop using KDE then Konqi will come to my house at night and kill me in my sleep. I've sold my soul to them

i've used KDE for 4 years, jumped off prior to KDE6 to move to i3wm, and he hasn't killed me yet.

I'm also a furry, so that's probably why.

TL;DR just be a furry and it won't be a problem lmao.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's a ThinkPad T61 running Gentoo. I upgraded it to 4GB of RAM and an SSD. Works fine with 10 browser tabs and youtube

i have a couple of 11-12 release year thinkpads, they're super capable, not productivity monsters, but they're fine.