Lets hope it saves my dads decade plus old pc cuz win 10 on this piece of shit was like walking thru molasses
Still feels sluging. Maybe once its fully installed itll be better. But its still hella better than fucking win 10 was
>>107806190Xfce4 is surprisingly sluggish these days. Source: I have Fedora 43 Xfce4 spin.I still use xfce4 as a backup but my real desktop is just Bspwm and polybar etc.I'd go for LXDE if that's really bad computer.
>>107806200Its a celer9n n3050 lol
>>107806180>4gb ramBRUHAt that point not even a wm can save you
>>107806180>get a cheap SSD>use LXDE instead>make keyboard shortcut binds for all your programsThat'll make it snappy
>>107806218Please leave the zoomer ebonics out of this discussion. 4GB with zram is totally usable but for a retard like you it's too much to handle.
>>107806218N3050 bro its over for this laptop just toss it in the fucking trash nigger itll be some birds or squirles blanket in a dump
op here. linuix noob. i removed the usb as it was installing. lol have to reinstall... fuck sake
bros its not working. after i remove the install device and hit enter it just keeps rebooting after every second what do???
>>1078072111. check BIOS boot options and order2. check if you actually installed it on the correct drive3. install gentoo
xfcexlqta vm like fluxboxor enlighnment that is not discussed but consume nothing compared to other DE wich is surprising.
I had a laptop with a N3050 and 2gb ram, I used a shitton of obscure lightweight distros and DE and sticked with one called bunsenlabs, it's debian based using openbox WM, wouldn't recommend it to someone without at least level 3 autism since most customization is through text files or the terminal, it does have a few options through GUI but it crashed often when done that way, and expect for at least one thing to break when you update your packages.I would just install Mint and call it a day. It may not be the snappiest but it is the one that probably involves less thinkering for things to just work.I didn't do it on my laptop because of the 2GB (the piece of shit was soldered to the board)
>>107806180I have a mini pc with N3050 and 4GB RAM, Fedora KDE works perfectly fine on it.Your issue seems to be the dying HDD.
>>107807415And swap the hdd with an ssd, even the cheapest one with a decent size will do
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1473389/error-shim-lock-protocol-not-found-in-grub-while-secure-boot-is-enabledsolved it
op herethe "it just werks" shit is a meme had to tinker with it since i made the thread. its all working now but my fuck IT DOESNT JUST WERK
>>107807468>>107807479Congrats anon!I've came to realize after endless distrohopping for years between my piece of shit laptop my and my desktop pc that there isn't a single distro out there that "just works", its just that some, like Mint, requiere so much less work to get something functional that it seems like nothing when compared to other distros.
>>107806180use fvwm3 , requires some tweaking,but its much lighter, has a mostly usable default config
>>107807605ty anon only took 4h no big dealwindows took 10 min to get EVERYTHING set up so yeah it werks..... sure... but w.e. my dad has a "fast" old laptop from 11 year ago
>>107808068based son (daughter)
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>>107808068your dad using that many apps?
If xfce still feels too slow, might take a look at trixiepup64. Puppy linux based on debian trixie.. so relatively modern OS, supports installing a shitload of apps, but still lean running JWM
>>107807468For this distro, it quite literally is just plug and play. Buy an SSD and install MX Linux. I don’t know why, but Linux Mint Xfce felt slow compared to MX Linux, and I have a Celeron processor for that computer. Maybe a systemd thing
>upgrade to 8GB of RAM>throw in a SSD>LubuntuEven then it will be terrible to use desu
I have Arch with i3 as my window manager, doing fine as a collegefag with 8gb's of RAM (DDR4). I also have a used Acer (Aspire 3) that wouldn't even boot properly with Windows, you had to reboot the damn thing like 3 times before it would start normally. After I got Arch on it, it would crash sometimes and I didn't know why. Checked the logs and found nothing. Then one day a firmware update for the AMD processor and integrated graphics came and the crashing stopped.Try to find another stick of DDR3 if you can. I also had XFCE in the beginning, but switched to i3 because I liked how it would split the screen into 2 equal windows automatically. This shit by itself is so useful for me.Try i3, maybe you'll like it. Or if you're on Wayland, get Sway or whatever other tiling window manager. I have no need for fancy animations so I'm sticking with i3.Be aware that i3 does require some tinkering, but their site has good documentation. In essence, you will just have to edit the i3 configuration file if you want to use it.Best of luck and don't remove your installation medium until the OS is installed.
>>107812326Right still can't makeup for the little l2 cache
>>107806190Use an SSD. Fastest speedup you can do.
