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< favre49>
The rainbow brackets plugin for vim looks fantastic, definitely adding it to my config
< favre49>
Does anyone know of anything fun to try on a rather underpowered computer? I have an old laptop from like 2014 and I'm itching to try something with it, just not sure what
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< shrit[m]>
favre49: my laptop is 2013 and I basically use it for everything, 2014 computers are new and performance has not changed yet a lot from that period a part from SSD
< favre49>
Agreed, but this laptop is pretty bad even for 2014, it has 2GB of RAM and a (i think) 2 Ghz processor
< shrit[m]>
an old challenging laptop will be something from 2002. This is underpowered computer
< shrit[m]>
it should intel core in 2014 at least
< favre49>
True, unfortunately nothing that old
< shrit[m]>
*use
< favre49>
Yeah iirc it's a celeron processor
< shrit[m]>
Well you can try to install Arch Linux or Gentoo on it
< favre49>
I tried Gentoo, but it was just too much of a pain. I would leave it compiling something overnight, only to find I did something wrong the next morning
< favre49>
At some point I just lost patience and installed Fedora
< shrit[m]>
Try Arch, there is not thing to compile, and the basic installation is pretty simple
< shrit[m]>
do not install any graphics, if you want a good performance
< favre49>
Yeah I use Arch on my main machine, I wanted to try something new though
< rcurtin>
I use my ARM chromebook without X to keep things snappy :) but it kind of sucks when I need a web browser...
< rcurtin>
favre49: I agree with your experience of Gentoo... that was my first Linux experience in ~2004 or so. I used to compile firefox on a pentium 1 machine... it would take like a week...
< favre49>
I just went with Fedora in the end, I lost my patience. Had to use i3 though, GNOME seems to use too much RAM
< rcurtin>
I like awesomewm, very lightweight
< shrit[m]>
@rcurtin Why not trying a tailing window manager
< rcurtin>
(I still have to get better at actually using it in tiling mode)
< rcurtin>
shrit[m]: yeah, just need to learn new habits :) awesome has tiling mode, I just need to take the time to learn it
< favre49>
I've been meaning to try, but I'm still happy with bspwm. I like how it's just a shell script
< shrit[m]>
I am using bspwm, I do not think there is anything lighter with the same features
< KimSangYeon-DGU[>
kartikdutt18 (@kartikdutt18:matrix.org): Great post :)
< kartikdutt18[m]>
Thanks :)
< favre49>
rcurtin: How do you not use X? I didn't know there were other good display servers
< favre49>
Besides Wayland ofc
< shrit[m]>
Actually it is possible to live without X
< shrit[m]>
but it need to be verrry patient
< shrit[m]>
you can use lynx for web browsing 👍️
< shrit[m]>
mutt for emails
< shrit[m]>
and tmux for termainl
< KimSangYeon-DGU[>
sakshamb189: kartikdutt18 (Gitter) Are you there?