OS for Asus EeePC?

[Sliter]

Well, the windows thin worked and gonna be this... at least until something goes wrong xD
and it ended with awesome 700mb of free space! lol

 

[vpd]

I've got an old netbook with pretty poor specs, i run a minimal debian install with xfce, it runs ok-ish.

 

[sarkwalvein]

I have somewhere around a paperweight with some printing stating Asus eeePC 1201HA.
It is a piece of shit based on an "Intel" GMA500 gfx chip (designed based on a PowerVR).
The shit runs XFCE and LXDE like shit and you can see the windows in the process of being drawn.
Gnome 3 takes more than 10 minutes to boot, and Youtube videos look like old cheap surveillance camera footage (specially on the FPS department).
I should probably kill it with fire already.

PS: This piece of shit is equipped with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD, both the "best" part of the machine... That fucking Poulsbo chipset in the other hand... why Intel, why Asus?

 

[jDSX]

I have somewhere around a paperweight with some printing stating Asus eeePC 1201HA.
It is a piece of shit based on an "Intel" GMA500 gfx chip (designed based on a PowerVR).
The shit runs XFCE and LXDE like shit and you can see the windows in the process of being drawn.
Gnome 3 takes more than 10 minutes to boot, and Youtube videos look like old cheap surveillance camera footage (specially on the FPS department).
I should probably kill it with fire already.

PS: This piece of shit is equipped with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD, both the "best" part of the machine... That fucking Poulsbo chipset in the other hand... why Intel, why Asus?

You should check out the crap MSI wand eepc I got as a present from my ma, thing had 1gb of ram and just barely ran windows 7 starter...and don't get me started on going online with it...

Only thing salvageable was the nice WD hdd 500gb someone added to it. All that trouble for nothing lol.

 

[Sliter]

PS: This piece of shit is equipped with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD, both the "best" part of the machine... That fucking Poulsbo chipset in the other hand... why Intel, why Asus?

Only thing salvageable was the nice WD hdd 500gb someone added to it. All that trouble for nothing lol.

these are better than the one we have here :v

 

[lucks]

Archlinux or gentoo or slackware with openbox

Ubuntu and friends are shit even for a good pc.

No effects, no login manager.
Midori as browser.

You will be able to play videos at full speed and probably play some 2d games or a few emulators.

 

[raulpica]

Archlinux or gentoo or slackware with openbox

Ubuntu and friends are shit even for a good pc.

No effects, no login manager.
Midori as browser.

You will be able to play videos at full speed and probably play some 2d games or a few emulators.

Tried Gentoo on my crapbook, it'd take ages to build anything. Really really bad advice to recommend anything that requires you to build stuff from source on such underpowered hardware - I remember it took something like 12 hours to build the kernel while I was installing... Such a crappy device needs packages, you can't afford to waste that much time building.

I remember installing Enlightenment on Gentoo, didn't work too well but it was nice to look at: https://www.enlightenment.org/

I tried Archlinux as well and FreeBSD was way faster. Anyway, I remember trying Midori on mine and it still was too slow. I suppose it's okay if you only need to use Google or email.

 

[loco365]

I'd be curious to see how Android x86 runs on it or maybe even Remix OS, which is also Android-based. I'm not sure what their minimum specs are though.

 

[Xanthe]

I'd go with Linux mint. Best Linux distro imo

 

[Sliter]

I'd go with Linux mint. Best Linux distro imo

it's coplatible with the extremely low specs?

 

[Xanthe]

it's coplatible with the extremely low specs?

Yes, I installed it onto one of my old Windows 98 laptops. It's got 256 MB of ram, and 8 gigs of hard drive space. I had to condense the kernel and make it smaller, but it ended up working for me.

 

[jDSX]

You can also live boot it off of a usb if you have a fast speed usb port if you want to test run it.

 

[dpad_5678]

Puppy Linux, Lubuntu, or SLiTaZ.

 

[raulpica]

Yes, I installed it onto one of my old Windows 98 laptops. It's got 256 MB of ram, and 8 gigs of hard drive space. I had to condense the kernel and make it smaller, but it ended up working for me.

There's a difference between getting things "running" and "running smoothly" - Mint is based on Ubuntu and I tested Ubuntu extensively. We're talking about a bare Ubuntu install, no crap on it. I'd always install something light like Openbox or Fluxbox and that was it. Yes, it did run, but it was nowhere a decent experience when using anything like a browser.

Mint didn't do anything more than provide a more user friendly interface and cutting down on some bloat Ubuntu would ship with. The kernel is the same and that's what matters. Also, stripping down the kernel does nothing for performance. It's something that makes sense only when working on embedded platforms (low RAM and/or disk space).

 

[lucks]

Yea, forgot about that.
I installed arch on old pcs with very low specs and it runs great with a ck kernel. (repock)
I don t know your cpu but it should be an atom(?)
Anyway you can also compile a lightweight kernel.

Arch uses 100mb of ram

 

[Xanthe]

There's a difference between getting things "running" and "running smoothly" - Mint is based on Ubuntu and I tested Ubuntu extensively. We're talking about a bare Ubuntu install, no crap on it. I'd always install something light like Openbox or Fluxbox and that was it. Yes, it did run, but it was nowhere a decent experience when using anything like a browser.

Mint didn't do anything more than provide a more user friendly interface and cutting down on some bloat Ubuntu would ship with. The kernel is the same and that's what matters. Also, stripping down the kernel does nothing for performance. It's something that makes sense only when working on embedded platforms (low RAM and/or disk space).

I'm sorry...?

 

[raulpica]

I'm sorry...?

What would you like me to expand on?

 

[Xanthe]

What would you like me to expand on?

No, I meant sorry as in, "Sorry for my post?"
Not, "Sorry, I'm confused"

 

[raulpica]

No, I meant sorry as in, "Sorry for my post?"
Not, "Sorry, I'm confused"

Oh whoops. Sorry. I didn't want to bash you or something, but there are so many contrasting infos on Linux, slimming down Kernels and such on internet that I was victim of those myself (thus the 12-hours compilation time for Gentoo I talked of above) and ended up wasting an insane amount of time for nothing, testing so many different distros and cutting down kernels. I just wanted another poor soul to not do the same as I did

It was some real good fun for me, though - and I ended up landing a job thanks to that experience something like one month later. So I suppose I have to be really grateful to those people for making me do the wrong thing

But I can imagine that not everyone is a tinkerer as I am!

 

[Xanthe]

Oh whoops. Sorry. I didn't want to bash you or something, but there are so many contrasting infos on Linux, slimming down Kernels and such on internet that I was victim of those myself (thus the 12-hours compilation time for Gentoo I talked of above) and ended up wasting an insane amount of time for nothing, testing so many different distros and cutting down kernels. I just wanted another poor soul to not do the same as I did

It was some real good fun for me, though - and I ended up landing a job thanks to that experience something like one month later. So I suppose I have to be really grateful to those people for making me do the wrong thing

But I can imagine that not everyone is a tinkerer as I am!

You and I are alike. I've tested almost every distro (That is mainstream). This goes all the way to Gentoo, which isn't as popular as the rest. I spent an entire MONTH, no exaggeration, testing these distros. I didn't do anything else but test what Linux distros were the best. In my opinion, I would have to go with Mint, regardless what computer. I replaced my Mac OS with Linux Mint because I love it so much. The most beautiful thing about Linux Mint, in my opinion, would be the UI. Absolutely gorgeous!

Now, if you want to know what my LEAST favorite Linux distro is, it would have to be Fedora. God, gnome-shell just annoys the ever-living crap out of me! It's incredibly ugly and can be difficult to navigate at times

But yeah, you and I are a lot alike. Obsessed with Linux xD