I just set up an old P.O.S. ASUS EeePC mini notebook, going from WinXP to Mint. It has transformed into a little hot-rod! Love it!
Labor intensive maintenence
Thanks for the heads up on this distro. I don’t mind trying out different flavors from time to time. I usually stick to the Ubuntu side of things but Ubuntu is from the Debian line of distros, IIRC. When I have some time, I’ll check it out.
CGato
I work in a 98.5% Windoze shop. On the workstation side of things we’re about 75% Win-7 - mostly because of software compatibility issues. Just for fun I’m going to build out a Linux machine to see how far I can go in that environment compared to a Win-10 machine.
I know that I can get alternative browsers and an alternative to Office but some of the hurtles will be RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools), MS Visual Studio, MS SQL Server Management Suite, and a host of other win-centric apps for which I don’t think there are Linux versions.
I have a corporate-compliant Win-7 VM that I can toss on there in case I get stuck. This might prove interesting.
XFCE Mint is my preferred distro, and has been for quite a while now. But, I have just been gifted a new old laptop that needs to be liberated from windoze hell. I just might try MX Linux. The fact that they are focused on XFCE means they “get it”, IMHO. I am always in favor of trading stupid eye candy for snappy performance and a smaller footprint.
I’ve got an ancient Dell Vostro 400, with a Pentium Core-Two Duo and 4GB RAM. It was a great XP system, and I had to give up using it, except for using it as a media system in my office. Never took it onto the Internet anymore.
As a long-time *IX user, I had meant to get Linux on there for some time, however I had repeatedly read that it would need a different video adapter. I simply didn’t want to talk the time to do anything about it, but the other day, I thought, “what the heck,” and I burned a Mint Mate DVD and thought I’d boot from it... It came right up, so for the last week or so, I’ve been running it in “demo mode,” booted off the CDrom, and accessing the media files from the Windows disks. The video is terrific, and it’s every bit as fast as it was running XP. Plus I can get to the Internet if I feel like it.
I just picked up a 120GB SSD, and when I get a chance, I’ll put that in, and load Linux for real - But before I do, I’ll check out MX Linux.
Thanks for the info!
Mark