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[Member Gary754]

Hi, have been using GNU/Linux for a few years, started with Lubuntu but have found it increasingly bloated and getting much slower over the years,tried Debian Bullseye for a few months, was better, but more difficult to use and a few programmes seem to slow it down drastically, so recently I saw a few Youtube videos on Antix and have decided to give it a try, currently have it installed on a USB hard drive on a USB 2 connection as my computer is a 14 year old Acer netbook.
Antix 21, is running much, much better and considering it’s on an external USB i am very happy so far.
THANKS to all who contribute to the Antix distro.

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[Member astronut]

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Welcome to the forum and glad you have found new life for your computer using Antix!

AntiX, Lilidog, PCLinuxOS, Mabox, SparkyLinux, Bodhi

[Member Wallon]

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Dear Gary754,

We welcome you to the forum.
What language did you install antiX in? English?
We try to adapt antiX to as many languages as possible.
It is always better to use antiX in your native language.

Best regards,
Wallon

[Member Gary754]

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Thank you for your welcome. Yes I installed Antix 21 with English (Australian/British in preference to the lazy US spelling).
I first started with Lubuntu 18.10 upgraded a few times and found it getting slower each time,I liked LXQt for its simple desktop, recently, (about 4 months ago) decided to change to Debian 11 Bullseye, with LXQt desktop which has been a learning experience.
I am impressed with the simplicity, and frugal use of memory on Antix 21 with the Rox-Icewm window manager, I can easily do more with the limited 2Gb of ram I have, the netbook I am using is 14 years old, and originally only had 1Gb of ram which was the first thing I upgraded, originally it had Vista OS, upgraded to 7, 8, and eventually 10, but it was extremely SLOW.
I am retired, and enjoy spending time seeing what I can do with my old computers. I am planning to get a new SSD and put it into the netbook and install Antix 21 on it instead of running it on an external HDD, Thanks again for your welcome.

[Member Rantanplan]

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Hello Gary754,

Welcome to the forum.

Yes, antiX is good for old computers, but also for newer ones with its 64bit flavors.

You spoil us with the beautiful photo attached to your first message. It looks like the mosque known as the hagia Sophia in Turkey, but I’m probably wrong.

Have fun with antiX.

The best for you and yours.

Vive antiX !
Vive le Groland !

[Member Gary754]

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Thank you for your welcome as well, Rantanplan.
You are correct, the background photo is of the Hagia Sophia, when I first retired from work, while I had some money I did a trip around the world, and Hagia Sophia was one of the places I insisted I wanted to see.

[Member techore]

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Good to have you.

[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello Gary754.

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

I don’t know how to write in English and I send my texts translated by the internet translator. I hope you can understand everything, if your native language is not English, please translate my original Brazilian Portuguese text directly into your language with the help of internet translators.

Regardless of your level of knowledge about GNU/Linux, I recommend you read these excellent tutorials created by @PPC:

What is antiX and how to try it out or install it.
Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie.
How-to install applications – 2020 version.
How to: correctly use antiX forum.

When I first started using antiX, I read the tutorials that PPC created, these readings saved me a lot of time and I think it saves time for any new antiX user. Your time will not be wasted with these readings, everything will seem to be much easier than you could imagine. You won’t waste your time searching the internet or even creating new topics, on the contrary, you will gain a lot of time with these readings.

I recommend you try out desktops that have “zzz” in their name. I usually use zzz-IceWM or zzz-JWM or zzz-Fluxbox (each of these desktops has its own characteristics and consumes more or less resources), zzzFM will be the default file manager for your desktop, it it is very similar to the other file managers of other GNU/Linux distributions and Windows XP. To access other antiX workspaces, click on Menu, Desktop, Other Desktops and click on the workspace name, instantly the workspace will be loaded.

Whenever you need to ask for help or technical support in this forum, please explain in detail what is happening, don’t mince words, be thorough when writing, tell your computer characteristics such as make and model. If possible, post the result of the command $ inxi -Fxz from the terminal, copy and paste here in the message of the topic that you are going to create in this forum.

When you start a topic or participate with a post, remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, by checking this option, you will receive a message in your email box whenever there are replies from topic in question.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)

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Olá Gary754.

Seja bem-vindo(a) ao antiX Linux e ao fórum.

Eu não sei escrever em idioma Inglês e envio os meus textos traduzidos pelo tradutor da internet. Eu espero que você consiga compreender tudo, caso o seu idioma nativo não seja o Inglês, por favor, traduza o meu texto original em idioma Português do Brasil diretamente para o seu idioma com a ajuda dos tradutores da internet.

Independentemente do seu nível de conhecimento sobre GNU/Linux, eu recomendo você ler estes excelentes tutoriais criados pelo @PPC:

What is antiX and how to try it out or install it.
Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie.
How-to install applications – 2020 version.
How to: correctly use antiX forum.
Quando eu comecei a utilizar o antiX, eu li os tutoriais que o PPC criou, estas leituras me pouparam muito do meu tempo e acho que poupa o tempo de qualquer novo usuário do antiX. O seu tempo não será perdido com estas leituras, tudo parecerá ser muito mais fácil do que você poderia imaginar. Você não perderá o seu tempo com pesquisas na internet ou até mesmo em criar novos tópicos, ao contrário, você ganhará muito tempo com estas leituras.

Eu recomendo você experimentar as áreas de trabalho que possuem “zzz” em seu nome. Eu costumo utilizar o zzz-IceWM ou zzz-JWM ou zzz-Fluxbox (cada uma destas áreas de trabalho possuem características próprias e consomem mais ou menos recursos), o zzzFM será o gerenciador de arquivos padrão da sua área de trabalho, ele é muito semelhante aos outros gerenciadores de arquivos das outras distribuições GNU/Linux e do Windows XP. Para acessar as outras áreas de trabalho do antiX, clique no Menu, Área de Trabalho, Alternar Entre as Áreas de Trabalho e clique sobre o nome da área de trabalho, instantaneamente a área de trabalho será carregada.

Sempre que você precisar solicitar ajuda ou suporte técnico neste fórum, explique com detalhes o que está acontecendo, não economize as palavras, seja minucioso ao escrever, informe as características do seu computador, como a marca e o modelo. Se for possível, poste o resultado do comando $ inxi -Fxz do terminal, copie e cole aqui na mensagem do tópico que você for criar neste fórum.

Quando você iniciar algum tópico ou participar com alguma postagem, lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, marcando esta opção, você receberá uma mensagem na sua caixa de e-mail sempre que houver respostas do tópico em questão.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma Português do Brasil)

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