I was wiping this old laptop to sell or give it away. Couldn’t resist putting Fedora Silverblue on it to try it out. It’s very slow but I was able to check my e-mails in the browser, big win.
Oh wow, I just thought to myself “this isn’t so old”.
The real old hardware here is me.
Consider xfce
I recently switched an old dell latitude from kde to xfce and it’s noticeably quicker
Edit: kde recognized the dual nvidia card and xfce doesn’t but I’m 99% it’s fixable I just don’t have the time or need rn
Yeah I usually ran XFCE on my old laptops. But this one was wiped immediately after this. Just wanted to see full fat Fedora in action, with all the modern stuff like Wayland.
Nice, yeah I was hoping wayland kde would just work because it is quite efficient now but nope…I mean I guess it’s usable if you don’t mind the constant waits lol
Looks great! How does Fedora Silverblue do with hardware with such low specs? Been trying to find a good replacement OS for a machine around that age and was considering going with FSB but was worried it would be too heavy on the system.
For actually using the machine I would go with another Fedora Atomic distribution, such as Sway, or the XFCE or LXQt Fedora Desktops.
Appart from being a bit slow because of full fat Gnome it was very nice and usable.
Thanks for the recommendation! Definitely going to have to give the XFCE or LXQt atomic desktops a try!
10.42.0.0/16? How saturated is your network that you need a /16?
Then I can have fun stuff like
10.42.0.Xare static IPs for known devices, and10.42.1.Xis DHCP addresses for unknown devices. This is also only one subnet, I have quite a few for management, IoT stuff, guest network, work devices.Anyway my network is ipv6 now. Sadly
fastfetchdoesn’t show it, though I’d have to censor it to avoid doxxing my prefix.
