on ssd upgrades:
upgrade usually costs less than 30 dollars for a 256GB SATA drive.
how much for the time machine to go back to last summer?
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I have to laugh at the guide calling itself "complete."
Yes, it's got a lot of useful info. Yes, someone reading it can learn a lot about what to do with older computers and what to expect from distros.
But there is so much more that the guide doesn't cover, haha
Meanwhile, the textbooks we spend months to barely understand only claim to be the introduction
TCL runs fine on 192MB of RAM and a PII. But any modern webpage brings it all to a screeching halt.
TCL?
Tiny Core Linux
Thanks
After a quick skim of the article, it isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but the author 1. only worked with a single Intel CPU (no AMD devices at all) and 2. could do with a wider knowledge of niche distros.
Is ext4rat still a thing? That would be a nice tip for anyone running the system on hdds
What's ext4rat? Web searches don't turn anything up and I must have missed out on whatever it is, or was. (Which wouldn't be the first time.)
I did find a Python script called ext4ract which apparently pulls files out of an ext4 filesystem, but it doesn't seem to be a hugely well-known tool and I'm not sure how it's relevant here.
it's as old and out-of-date as the systems you'd be wanting to use it on.
I'd rather use Haiku on such horrible hardware if it's hardware compatible and I had no other hardware choice. Newer computers can do things far more efficiently, and smart phones costing ~$100 are safer for banking and often more capable otherwise. People try to make Linux the solution to everything when it's horrible for most things. -It's cultish behavior.