Anyone know of anything fitting an Eeepc?

    • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
      4·
      2 months ago

      i wouldn’t recommend debian since they’ve dropped 32 bit support in trixie, their latest release. the previous release, bookworm, still supports 32 bits archs, but it eol’s less than a year from now

      • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        This is not true. (Edit: nevermind, I was wrong)

        They’re dropping support for i586 and below. 32-bit systems with i686+ processors will still run fine.

          • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
            22·
            2 months ago

            Not all 32-bit systems are i386. For example, my 32-bit Debian thinkpad runs Trixie just fine. Because it’s i686 which is still supported.

            So again, Debian 13 isn’t dropping 32-bit support. Just i586 support and below.

            • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
              2·
              2 months ago

              Not all 32-bit systems are i386

              but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors. there’s no “i686” build of debian

              there are no i586 or i686 kernel or iso available, you can look for them. i386 packages only exist for compatibility reasons, so you can run 32 bit applications on amd64 machines. please read the release notes

                • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I’m sure they have their reasons

                  maybe compatibility reasons. i guess they used to support i386 back in the day and didn’t want to break the couple of systems that were installed on bo and have been upgrading ever since

              • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
                21·
                2 months ago

                I was wrong. Thank you. And I don’t have Trixie on the 32-bit Thinkpad, it was my other laptop.

    • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌@lemmy.zip
      10·
      2 months ago

      +1 for NetBSD it’s such a great OS for ressource limited platforms. Rough edges by today standards but it worth a try on OP’s PC.

      Edit : would you please post something like neofetch screenshot when your eeepc is up and running ? :)

      • Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Not a screenshot since I havent set up any internet communication except package installing yet, but a bad photo is manageble. Now I just have to figure out how to make a specific user that automatically boots into Abiword on login!

        https://imgur.com/a/MX3YbNu

  • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    2 months ago

    Since I doubt the latest and greatest drivers interest you, I suggest debian. Might as well profit from extreme stability and reliability

  • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    My eepc is also 32 bit with 2gb of RAM. I did Debian 12 with LXDE from the net installer and it works really well.

  • Dorothy@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    MX runs fine, but applications such as browsers are very slow because of the old CPU 😐

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I loved my Eee PC so much.

    I’ve been watching and hoping for a modern ARM equivalent, but haven’t seen anything quite right so far.

  • Sina@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 months 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.

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months 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.

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      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

      • Sina@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • notthebees@reddthat.com
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Something with LXDE or XFCE Desktop Environment, that is usually the DE for low-spec distros.

  • TerkErJerbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    2 months ago

    One of the OG eeepc is what got me into Linux. The distro it shipped with was ass (it was a Linux variant) so I went hopping and discovered Puppy Linux and a bunch of others. Ended up sticking with !# (crunchbang) which later renamed to BunsenLabs and I still run it on most of my devices to this day.

    • Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I ran Puppeee on my original which loaded completely to ram and only wrote to disk every 10 minutes or when prompted due to the early ssds very limited life span. It helped me get through folkhögskola and was small enough to let me easily work on the 1 hour 30 min bus ride to and from school. I think that model was called 4G and it was even tighter keyboard than my current due to åäö-keys being almost half width