Forget Wayland, the performance is inferior on ancient hardware, if it works at all. Postmarket OS is not a good idea either. Xfce likewise going to be too slow. Lxqt is borderline usable, but not great on this computer, so imo vanilla debian with Lxde and put some effort into theming, it can look modern enough and its the best option if someone wants lightweight without the ability to diy a WM based setup to their needs. And yes basic w98 like operation is possible.

When? Currently 240p youtube will produce frame drops on these. Typical javascript laden web pages can take minutes to render. I guess it largely depends on the websites you plan to visit. Phoronix will work ok.

Bunsenlab Linux…

Though don’t expect miracles, that cpu is too slow for the modern internet. It’s not usable for web browsing on any OS.

You use ventoy to boot into a live linux iso and then run gparted to resize, though there is a chance you have to do a non persisting install of gparted first.

Run apt update and see if it works. Meaning to look what sources it connects to, if it doesn’t fail.

If this fails, then ofc you have to create the file with the Trixie sources. There has to be a dummy file somewhere for you to copy.

I don’t really understand your post, you claim to have updated, but it’s a new usb install?

Not having a separate boot partition is the way I roll, I think. The way debian stores old kernels even 1gb wouldn’t be much.

I think for home archival use is btrfs is a terrible idea. I burnt myself with it so many times.

Yes it should be safe and resistant to unclean shutdowns, but my experience with reliability is not great.

It’s a bit of a conundrum, because if you cannot figure out how to force update the kernel on Ubuntu, then it’s likely rolling release will cause you endless pain, but that’s what you need for Blackwell right now. Maybe try Tumbleweed or even one of the Arch installers such as Endeavor OS.

Fedora licensing cripples the stock Silverblue offerings. Using an immutable without the drivers and codecs baked in is not great. Sure you can add these with ostree, but then why use an immutable …

I have embarrassing code and commented lines in mine, so not sharing. (using Awesome and qtile)

If someone has a problem my dots have the solution for, then I might copy paste edited segments.

They cheat to fuel their donate button. Meanwhile Debian maintainers do most of the work.

worst case you can install w10 once now and years from now you can just run a Windows live usb if needed

I don’t like MSI as a manufacturer, but compatibility is not a real concern if not muleheaded about it.

“so far” is not a meaningful timeframe, give it half a year…

Basically no one is using powershell on Linux. zsh is popular and i’m using fish.

This not yet scary, scary starts when malicious actors take over orphaned AUR packages…

I think salt and pepper grilling is way worse than just ala natural.

That’s incredible.

Imo whatever problem you had is probably way easier to solve than managing an Arch derivative medium term… Anyway I wish you best of luck.

Bunsenlab Linux I suppose, but do know if it’s the single core atom version web browsing will be very slow and YT will only work in 240p after spending 10 minutes loading and you gotta use Chrome.

Mine has a Windows XP dualboot for retro gaming and Office 2007 flies on this thing. (Though it’s not very compatible with newer versions of office)

Retro gaming is the best use case including ps1 emulation. I’ve been thinking of putting native dos on it, because some dos games are lagging in dosbox. (like imperium galactica 1 and even Prehistoric 2…)

Bluefin/Aurora is the most sane option in that space, stock Silverblue offerings are lacking a few essentials.

Because Linux +firefox is like a fingerprinting wet dream, I may be the only one in my locale. (maybe not anymore, but yeah)

Also Librewolf by default reports Win+Firefox.