02-11-2020, 07:58 PM
I have held onto a Toshiba Satellite A75 laptop (2004) as a kind of toy for testing out -- and playing around with -- lightweight Linux distros.
[Pentium 4 with about 1.4 GB RAM (upgraded from 512 MB); unit is 16 years old in 2020]
I have installed NOTHING other than Linux Lite and won't even bother with anything else.
I first installed Linux Lite 3.6 on this unit almost two years ago but did nothing much with it except to run updates every 8 months or so.
[Linux 4.x -- being 64-bit only -- is not an option. It is so great that Linux Lite 3.6 will be maintained until 2021]
I just want to say I am certain that Linux Lite is the perfect Linux distro for the above specs of this ancient dinosaur.
However, browser usage of this machine is quite <precarious> and finely balanced -- with almost no room for modification -- or else usability is wrecked.
When browsing, I keep JAVASCRIPT disabled -- and I only use Firefox on rare occasions.
==> The main-important-huge point I want to make is that it is *only* the MIDORI BROWSER (v.0.5.11 released August 30, 2015) that makes this unit "not-utterly-annoying" for browsing.
Specifically, the fans of this unit -- overstuffed with a Pentium 4 desktop chip -- REV UP up to LOUD Jetliner Turbo speeds on the slightest provocation when browsing to any webpage with multiple Javascript items running (ruining on?) the page...especially with Firefox.
==> The MIDORI BROWSER is my salvation, and makes this ancient unit running Linux Lite nicely useable.
Finally, just yesterday I activated zRam via "Lite Tweeks" -- and it made a *clearly* perceptible and satisfying difference in speed and responsiveness [!!]
Thank you Jerry and Linux Lite!
[Pentium 4 with about 1.4 GB RAM (upgraded from 512 MB); unit is 16 years old in 2020]
I have installed NOTHING other than Linux Lite and won't even bother with anything else.
I first installed Linux Lite 3.6 on this unit almost two years ago but did nothing much with it except to run updates every 8 months or so.
[Linux 4.x -- being 64-bit only -- is not an option. It is so great that Linux Lite 3.6 will be maintained until 2021]
I just want to say I am certain that Linux Lite is the perfect Linux distro for the above specs of this ancient dinosaur.
However, browser usage of this machine is quite <precarious> and finely balanced -- with almost no room for modification -- or else usability is wrecked.
When browsing, I keep JAVASCRIPT disabled -- and I only use Firefox on rare occasions.
==> The main-important-huge point I want to make is that it is *only* the MIDORI BROWSER (v.0.5.11 released August 30, 2015) that makes this unit "not-utterly-annoying" for browsing.
Specifically, the fans of this unit -- overstuffed with a Pentium 4 desktop chip -- REV UP up to LOUD Jetliner Turbo speeds on the slightest provocation when browsing to any webpage with multiple Javascript items running (ruining on?) the page...especially with Firefox.
==> The MIDORI BROWSER is my salvation, and makes this ancient unit running Linux Lite nicely useable.
Finally, just yesterday I activated zRam via "Lite Tweeks" -- and it made a *clearly* perceptible and satisfying difference in speed and responsiveness [!!]
Thank you Jerry and Linux Lite!
