I know Debian and others can breathe life into older machines. But i wonder if there are any distros with serious optimizations that I haven’t heard of. I’ve already tried MX Linux on an old Thinkpad SL400, and didn’t see any difference from plain Debian.

Update: thanks for the great suggestions. Forgot to say many distros feel zippy and fast until you open a web browser. Appreciate your thoughts on which web browser to use too. So far I’ve had a positive experience with Thorium and Chromium.

  • meow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    1 year ago

    It’s kinda surprising how much you can do in just a tty, the only thing I can’t think of a method for rn is viewing/editing documents.

    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I can’t think of a method for rn is viewing/editing documents

      What is the extension of document? I bet you money it’s possible in terminal. PDF? docx?

      • meow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean any kind of document, so yes, PDF, docx, rtf, etc.

        Thinking about it, isn’t lesspipe able to view documents?

          • meow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know the tools, but that means you can probably do everything* in a tty without ever installing a graphical environment

            *I almost forgot spreadsheets and presentations

            • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              Do you actually want to know the tools for each of the extensions you mentioned or just having a conversation here?