[ShadowAce]

[mountainlion]

This is a bit off subject but can someone tell me how to reinstall MSDOS that I deleted?

[LouieFisk]

If someone isn’t heavy into Linux, I’d suggest Linux Lite and LXLE from this list as being most user-friendly.

Others can be a bit more “Linuxy” to use and some are barebones where you should be reasonably knowledgeable in Linux to use without too much hassle.

[ThunderSleeps]

All good recommendations. I personally have Manjaro Linux with the Xfce desktop environment running on an old Sony laptop (PCG-61A12L) circa 2012.

Works fine. Xfce is a low-resource desktop. Sure, not a speed demon, but makes an ok system for trying stuff. Currently I'm playing around with Docker containers on it and a Raspberry Pi as a client/server testbed. Makes a good remote terminal for ssh into the Pi.

The upshot is, anything from the last decade can still be useful.

[Wonder Warthog]

Bookmark

[ptsal]

bkmk Linux

[MercyFlush]

Will Linux run on my Altair?

/s

[Terry L Smith]

hi y’all!

i have a thinkpad x201. it has win10, which is almost timed out. i am not buying a new machine just for the next win series.

what must i do to this windoze machine before installing any Linux software?

[Organic Panic]

I will dust off my old ZX81 and give it a shot. Do these distros come on tape cassette?

[Covenantor]

Bookmarked

Thanks!

[Bikkuri]

How long would it take me to save the image to cassette for my TRS80 (TRaSh80)?

[Pollard]

Kubuntu seems to run good on anything, even this little Acer AspireOne with 1GHz processor and 4gb ram. None of the supposed lightweight distros did any better. Just tried LXLE today and had tried all the rest recently. KDE apps are tightly integrated with the Plasma desktop and Plasma was made with mobile in mind. You can buy a phone that runs Plasma-mobile. Several years ago, Plasma was buggy but they seem to have it straight now. I’m running Kubuntu 18.04 on the Acer.

[OKSooner]

So which one is the simplest, most practical version for an ancient Windows 7 machine?

[OKSooner]

So which one is the simplest, most practical version for an ancient Windows 7 machine?

[daniel1212]

1. Puppy Linux. Even https://www.dedoimedo.com (which I find to provide the most frank assessment commends it much. One aspect I like in particular, “I also noticed BionicPup comes with a tremendously rich context menu. Just right-click on a file, and you’ll see an endless list of options..”

You would like https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-moving-away-sw-checklist.html Related: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-six-months-review.html

But you know my opinion, while I hope that the legal aspect regarding certain multimedia codecs becomes a non-issue due to not needing them.