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About old computers:
My home computer is a single core intel atom netbook with 1 gig shared RAM. Using antiX and Ungoogled-chromium, I’m able to run youtube videos at 720p. It’s even better if I use mpv to watch a video- with some limitations I can watch even full hd videos… (I may sound like a old man in a time when 4k is trying to become the standard)
From this browser or Firefox-ESR I can run basically almost every single site on the web (exceptions- web sites that use out dated tech like Silverlight- saddly that limitation makes me unable to watch my web tv service in my antiX box 🙁 )
I can run LibreOffice just fine, I can run on-line MS Office365 just fine, I can use my printer out of the box, no need to install drivers.
All this in a 10 year old machine that was already low spec when it came out. Why buy new hardware when I can do 98% of what I what to do (and really what most users do) with this machine?
Oh, maybe if I was a gamer, sure, a high spec machine may be worth the investment. But I haven’t been a gamer (except maybe on mobile platforms) for some 15 years…
And with the possible advent of google’s streaming gaming service, maybe I’ll be able to play up to date games with my computer if I want to… maybe…
Thanks antiX team for making be able to still have a computing experience without the need to buy new hardware…P.
Brian Masinick
I’m using a “rock solid” laptop today; this is one of the ones that I ALWAYS use with antiX, and it’s perfectly suited to this system:
inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 Distro: antiX-19.5_x64-full Wobblies 24 January 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 3249CTO v: ThinkPad X201 serial: <filter> Mobo: LENOVO model: 3249CTO serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 6QET66WW (1.36 ) date: 05/31/2011 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 79.4/84.2 Wh (94.2%) volts: 12.1 min: 10.8 model: Panasonic 42T4696 status: Full CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7 M 620 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 cache: L2: 4 MiB flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21279 Speed: 1466 MHz min/max: 1199/2667 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1333 2: 1466 3: 1599 4: 1199 Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 Device-2: Lenovo Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:6 Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: intel resolution: 1280x800~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes Network: Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 1820 bus-ID: 00:19.0 IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1880 bus-ID: 02:00.0 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 6.07 GiB (5.1%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: THNS128GG4BAAA-NonFDE size: 119.24 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 110.96 GiB used: 6.07 GiB (5.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: 0.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1959 Info: Processes: 176 Uptime: 32m Memory: 7.6 GiB used: 1.32 GiB (17.4%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Packages: 1633 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.3.06--
Brian MasinickAnonymous
my daily machine is antiX-19 and aging. Does wifi hotspot and browsing great,
got it given to me. is a intel core2-quad with 8gb ram.
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