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    This was a surprisingly high effort shitpost (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How did you make it usable? I personally love restoring and making use out of severely-underpowered hardware and still have an old netbook lying around, so I'm curious to hear what you did with yours :o

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

    I heard adélie Linux is really good for slow and old hardware. action retro - Adélie Linux on a Pentium 4 laptop

    I haven't used it myself but I've seen this guy throw it on old mac's for a while and this was particularly impressive.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

    It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I'm pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don't think I even used LXDE. Didn't need to do much.

    I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.

    I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.

    It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.