Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Older Hardware Still Works Date: 11 Aug 2025 04:15:49 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4vecnYdHDPuMwwT1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BMGVJ+koDvW2sd5Y7fEY0waLpbtQanUrfFyoFEFHU0FhyEjtlD Cancel-Lock: sha1:dg0iO/u6ly8QKnL5Xekcg8Y2xy8= sha256:pI3qritbRPZoQzfAyQxWPgbT1shPJBq5ywuwutP3mGc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70761 On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 23:05:50 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Wish I still had my EEEPC, but I dropped it off a roof alas trying to > align a security cam. As best I recall, MX was the only distro with a > smart enough version of Grub to recognize the M.2 "ssd". Q4OS worked for me. It took a couple of attempts. KDE Plasma 5 was a little too much but the lighter Trinity DE is usable. It originally had Xandros which wasn't bad but it didn't support WPA2 which became a real problem. It wasn't the hardware since Q4OS handles it with no problem. I snapped on up when they firs came out. Small enough to throw in a motorcycle saddlebag and not HD, which I doubt would pass the Harley Shake'N'Bake environmental testing for long. Also cheap enough that it wouldn't be a heavy loss if stolen or destroyed.