Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: AI Is Killing Some Legacy Hardware Support Date: 28 Apr 2026 18:37:13 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <10sbn6f$2kkkk$8@dont-email.me> <69ea9ec7@news.ausics.net> <69eb2a5f@news.ausics.net> <10skbd3$1cssv$3@dont-email.me> <10skfk3$93hh$1@news1.tnib.de> <10skglm$1ej2r$1@dont-email.me> <69ee94fe@news.ausics.net> <10snd8b$29c0d$2@dont-email.me> <20260427121054.00003218@gmail.com> <69efe7b1@news.ausics.net> <10spsoo$30uh9$1@dont-email.me> <20260428082728.0000457a@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net D7QXQZPGtt4QzgYogaJ51wFolkTipydhrKgXV5Lu13/Pga+Cjh Cancel-Lock: sha1:DcA5tWLYC7oIcs+t4serlzIps6w= sha256:YRvjt5WP+A/aZAyCMXo+kvHd695SDfR7m1pvRh61/YY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85996 On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:27:28 -0700, John Ames wrote: > Depends on the GUI - the freenix world has *plenty* of lighter-weight > options than the megalithic whizbang duzitall GNOME/KDE type everything- > suites. I find WindowMaker and SpaceFM on my "portable typewriter" (an > Asus Eee 904 with 1GB RAM) perfectly comfortable, and those aren't even > particularly bare-bones. I have antiX on my 701. It works. I had been running Q4OS with the Trinity desktop which was a little more polished. antiX would install on the 4 GB SSD drive but there wasn't enough free space to update, let alone install much so I set it up to use the SD card.