Anyone know of anything fitting an Eeepc?

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    5 days ago

    Bunsenlab Linux…

    Though don’t expect miracles, that cpu is too slow for the modern internet. It’s not usable for web browsing on any OS.

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      I think it should be okay. I have a pentium M machine that did alright with web browsing on Bunsenlabs. Had 2 gb of ram. I used an original eeepc and an MSI u230 wind with the same cpu. The atom and pentium M are about the same

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        When? Currently 240p youtube will produce frame drops on these. Typical javascript laden web pages can take minutes to render. I guess it largely depends on the websites you plan to visit. Phoronix will work ok.

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          I also have a gpu in it (ATI mobility Radeon 9700) so there is that. Web browsing was slow but not impossible. I did use discord with my old pentium M machine. (only web bc 32 bit). YouTube did work but not well. I was using smplayer for YouTube. Also this was before everything went to av1 encoding and I haven’t tried it since.

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      5 days ago

      slow internet could make for a fun opportunity to play around with a text-based browser from the terminal like Lynx, w3m, and browsh.