[Trinity] Nice classic look (lemmy.ca)

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux
Init: SysVinit
Desktop: Trinity
UI Theme: Tragedy2
Icon Theme: Crystal SVG
Cursors: wonderland (from Mageia)
OMZ Theme: simple
Wallpaper: The Bay (builtin)

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Oh my god, Crystal icon theme. I remember that so well. Super classic, dude. A+. 👏

[-] paskalivichi@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Love the window decoration

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's pretty cool what you can do with deKorator.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Oldschool <3

[-] maop@mstdn.mx 1 points 4 months ago

@hellfire103 this so 2000's! 👌

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

You probably could, but you'd need to use twin instead of Xfwm in order for the deKorator theme to work.

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's an Acer Aspire 5742z: a chunky old laptop from 2009.

It requires proprietary WiFi drivers and only has one working USB port because the other two are on a separate board connected to the motherboard by a ribbon cable that seems to have shrunk by a millimetre or two over the years, so it no-longer reaches the contacts.

The keyboard has a decent amount of travel and it's easy to clean with compressed air. However, the keys are a bit harder to press than on other keyboards I have, so it's easy to miss out letters when typing quickly. It's also difficult to put the keys back on once removed; but at least they are removable.

The performance is okay, and I had to pull some extra RAM out of another machine to get it to run smoothly. This machine originally only had 3GB. However, it is easy to upgrade and repair.

To be honest, you'd probably be better off with a late-2000s ThinkPad or a mid-2010s MacBook.

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Oh damn! Yeah, no, the old Atom series will be slow on anything other than, like, Puppy Linux.

Here are a few distros to try:

Puppy Linux
EasyOS
Fatdog64
Absolute Linux
Legacy OS
Damn Small Linux
Tiny Core
GNU Guix
Debian (use a lightweight WM, like Fluxbox or IceWM)
Arch (again, use a lightweight WM)

And here are some software substitutions:

Firefox -> Konqueror/Netsurf/Dillo/Lynx/Links2/w3m
Thunderbird -> Claws Mail/NeoMutt
LibreOffice -> AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.

You will be able to run Firefox and Chromium, but they will be somewhat sluggish and likely to freeze or crash, in my experience.

Also, the suckless tools are really good for this. Back on my old Raspberry Pi, I used to be able to compile st and surf in under a minute, and dwm ran brilliantly.

~Source: my old Raspberry Pi, although arm-based, and my old MacBook had similar specs.~

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