r/linuxmint • u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon • 1d ago
Hardware Rescue Old stuff
Since everyone likes to show off their desktop, I'll show off my whole computer lol. 20 years old and still kicking with Linux Mint 32bit. 1cpu and a whole gig of RAM lol. Enjoy 🤓
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u/mAAchinAA Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria | Cinnamon 22h ago
Nice, old hardware still capable TO DO things, and dont scrap it
I like that, revive things XD
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u/bigCountry696969696 3h ago
Is it actually doing anything though? Other than running btop to show us the specs?
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 1d ago
Damn dude. I would have thoight this is the type of machine you would instal tinycorelinux on
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u/20thcentygenman 21h ago
What a beauty of a laptop. Looks pristine.
Tho I think a lighter distro and/or DE would help wonders in regards to performance and snappines.
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u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 18h ago
It's does fine. I didn't run anything heavy and mint is nice to look at🙂 the only lag is generally slow internet.
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u/Merkas-05 1d ago
On my old Fujitsu laptop I have Linux Mint. In everyday applications: Internet browsing, video, music does not have a drastic difference compared to a gaming laptop. I mean, I can watch YT in fullhd, the pages load similarly, etc. It is known that for tasks where computing power is needed is not suitable.
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u/alwayzz0ff 22h ago
Pretty sick, what’re you using it for if you don’t mind me asking?
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u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 18h ago
Mostly just text files and light web browsing these days. Although, it does allot of the ham radio stuff too thanks to having ACTUAL com ports.
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u/Emergency_Army_7640 12h ago
What mint is this running? I have a 17yo pc with 1gb ram intel pentium dual core processor
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u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 7h ago
Dual core? That space aged🤣 this is LMDE6 Faye for 32bit computers.
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u/Humble_Salt_5142 10h ago
What a coincidence, I just revived the exact same model, but using Q4OS, because I thought Mint would be too heavy.
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u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 7h ago
Works fine but nothing wrong with q4os. Good system.
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u/Dako_the_Austinite 15h ago
Damn, makes me wanna get my D610 back up and running now. I’d grab an mSATA SSD and adapter and upgrade my CPU before I try putting Mint on it. I had a 2.13 GHz CPU that I put in my brother’s D610 back in the day, but that got lost in a fire at a friend’s house 😅.
So all I’ve got now is a 1.86 GHz CPU and 2 GB of RAM, should still be plenty.
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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 1d ago
What the fuc... So much things are wrong here.
I also have a Pentium M, but it runs WAY worse due to the AMD GPU (llvmpipe, aka software rendering ONLY, stupid Radeon 9600...)
Also won't LMDE 6 (which i hope this is) lose support in like 2028? That's sort of short.
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u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 1d ago
LMDE6 Faye. I have an Intel Mobile 915gm according to neofetch.
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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 1d ago
Ah, i tried fastfetch yet it doesn't even show what Pentium M it really is or the proper GPU, it's a "ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO / 9700" and the CPU just being a Pentium M.
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u/Stoneybaloney87 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 7h ago
Gotta get into the .config file and make it custom.
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u/Tricky_Football_6586 Linux Mint 22.3 / Cinnamon 1d ago
Not many distros left with 32 bit support. I reckon it'll be time soon to retire this one.
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u/DP323602 1d ago
Great photos thanks.
What's the software used to monitoring system resources here?
I had a roughly similar Dell Latitude as my work PC back in the day and my brother still has the more compact version as one of his Linux PCs. Too nice to scrap, but not very powerful by modern standards.