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[Member 12Bar]

Hi from the UK. Having installed AntiX 19.3 64bit on this old clunker(which came with W10 installed!) I am amazed at at the performance, so much so that I have dropped all other distros in favour of it. I have been around the mainstream distros in different guises i.e. Lubuntu, Mint XFCE, Manjaro(who have now changed to Gnome as their flagship) et al, but, being a believer that the machines resources should be there for you to use not beautify the desktop I am happy as Larry.
I am using around 130Mb in Fluxbox which is way lower than anything else I haved tested.
Many thanks to all involved in this great distro and hopefully as my skills improve I may be able to contribute more as time goes on.

Dell Optiplex 760 Core2 Q6600 8Gb Ram 256Gb Ssd 500Gb Hdd

[Member PPC]

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Welcome to antiX!

wow, with 8 Gb of RAM and an SSD I bet antix flies on that machine…
If you are an Fluxbox fan, feel free to search on the forum for my tint2 thread, that makes even using minimal-fluxbox a joy… on my crappy old netbook, with 1 gig of RAM, antix uses less than 100Mb with my min-fluxbox + tint2 step up it has “beauty” and “resources” all in one…
But since your system can handle it, you can also test our distro younger and more flashier brother- MX Linux- it also comes in a Fluxbox version [it comes with tint2 toolbar installed, but not active out of the box] (the default version is XFCE)…
If you need some tips on how to handle this OS, check out the “tips and tricks” sticky threads…

P.

[Member 12Bar]

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I have already tried MX but being the minimalist that I am I think I am going to stick with antix, but who knows I may move on in the future. Don’t know what state the capacitors are in and the machine is 12 years old!
Thanks for the welcome.

Dell Optiplex 760 Core2 Q6600 8Gb Ram 256Gb Ssd 500Gb Hdd

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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@12bar: Welcome to antiX! There are many people using antiX with “old clunkers” between 10-20 years old, and also some in the community who have installed antiX on fairly new hardware. There is a fairly good range of equipment successfully used, though each case is different.

Whatever you end up doing, I’m sure you’ll find useful software. There is a good chance that antiX will work, so it may depend on your needs and interests.

Enjoy freedom of choice.

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Brian Masinick

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Hi 12Bar,

Welcome to antiX. As far as the capacitors go giving the tower and power supply
a cleaning by blowing the dust out will help keep it going.

[Member Xecure]

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Welcome to this small community. Let us know if there is anything we can help with.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Moderator BobC]

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LOL, a Win/10 machine is almost new around here!

Welcome aboard

[Member ModdIt]

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Welcome to Antixia,

guess a couple of my boxes are also almost new. I am here for the speed and stability. Also fed up of flashy voodoo desktops 🙂
and “UK traitor”, left the sinking mothership in Thatcher era.
You wrote: Don’t know what state the capacitors are in and the machine is 12 years old!.

Depends on the board and PSU manufacturer, if you are lucky it will have solid caps.
If any on the are showing any sign of bulging just change them for modern low ESR types. It is not difficult if you are patient.

PSU. safer to Replace if unsure. And as linuxdaddy wrote, keeping clean reduces aging. If you blow out please be careful with the fans.
Saw one not long ago with no more blades, take a can of compressed air.. Bang.

[Member fatmac]

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Welcome aboard. 🙂

I still use an old (2008) laptop, 1.2GHz Celeron with just 2GB ram, running our favourite distro, & it’s still usable on the internet too. 😉

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Member seaken64]

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@12Bar,

Welcome! If you look around you can get that initial memory down to about 100. PPC already mentioned it. You can turn off services you don’t need or use. Search the forum for terms about Low Memory or Minimal. And be sure to use the search box on the first forum page and not the magnifying glass on the menus.

I have several boxes running antiX and many are from around the year 2000. One box is from 1996, but it is running the “Core” version only, no GUI.

And I’m glad Larry is happy also!

Seaken64

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