• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      4 months ago

      It’s Bazzite on wildly impractical hardware. I had the installer on my ventoy USB and decided to try and install it on my crapbook for shits and giggles.

      No, it doesn’t run well. But to be fair, I also had Firefox open on another desktop with the only open tab being Lemmy.

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      4 months ago

      That’s exactly it, Bazzite, a distro associated with gaming, running on hardware that even at release was criticized for being “landfill fodder”.

        • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          4 months ago

          How did you make it usable? I personally love restoring and making use out of severely-underpowered hardware and still have an old netbook lying around, so I’m curious to hear what you did with yours :o

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            It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I’m pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don’t think I even used LXDE. Didn’t need to do much.

            I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.

            I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.

            It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.