Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?

From	Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.linux, alt.os.linux, alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject	Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?
Date	2021-08-30 20:45 -0700
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Ant wrote:

> Will getting Bullseye v11 be OK?
> 
> Setup details:
> 
> Intel Core 2 Q8200 (quad-core; 

> two 1 GB of Crucial RAM (Samsung DDR2 800
> (PC2-6400; 400 MHz), EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT PCIE video card (512 MB
> of VRAM), onboard RealTek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet

I dl/ed the Deb 11 KDE & wrote it to USB.  It failed to boot, seeming to 
me to choke on trying to load the ware for the ethernet.

So, then I dl/ed the Deb 11 KDE nonfree and wrote it.  It booted fine. 
It uses more ram to the live desktop than KDE Neon by about 50%, 675 vs 
450.  That system I booted had 8G ram; I also have a machine w/ lower 
resources like yours, 2G ram but a 15 y/o AMD instead of Intel.

I have some trouble booting it from USB because i have to use a Plop CD 
to do that and its optical tray is very balky.  I should put the plop on 
its hdd; right now I'm working on the optical tray problem.

-- 
Mike Easter

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Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-08-30 18:21 -0500
  Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-08-30 16:35 -0700
    Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-01 15:09 -0700
      Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-09-01 18:37 -0500
      OT Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? jrg <jeff.g.group@att.net> - 2021-09-02 10:11 -0700
      Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-02 10:50 -0700
        Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-02 11:48 -0700
        Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-02 12:04 -0700
          Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Steve Carroll - fretwizzer <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 23:41 -0700
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        Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-02 18:10 -0700
  Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-08-30 20:45 -0700
    Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-01 09:18 -0700
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      Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-09-05 11:12 -0700

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