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How Would You Set Up This Pocket PC?
Posted on 3/2/25 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 3/2/25 at 12:07 pm
Recently came across a Kangaroo Mini PC I bought years ago. It's got only 2 gigs of ram, a 32 gig hard drive and a 128 gig SD card. I have a 500 gig external hard drive available to use with it.
How would you configure this setup for most efficiency?
Really just going to use it for browsing, not much else.
How would you configure this setup for most efficiency?
Really just going to use it for browsing, not much else.
This post was edited on 3/2/25 at 12:54 pm
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Posted on 3/2/25 at 12:42 pm to Stadium Rat
Mint? It seems fine in a VM with little RAM.
Posted on 3/2/25 at 12:49 pm to LemmyLives
quote:I've been a Windows guy my whole life. How hard will my transition be to Mint?
Mint? It seems fine in a VM with little RAM.
Posted on 3/2/25 at 1:16 pm to Stadium Rat
Me too, it's pretty easy if you're just browsing the web, to be honest. You don't have many options with that little amount of RAM.
Posted on 3/2/25 at 3:07 pm to Stadium Rat
Debian/GNU would run fine but some web pages will slow that machine down regardless or OS. GNU is super simple, almost childish.
Posted on 3/2/25 at 10:37 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:Not hard at all.
I've been a Windows guy my whole life. How hard will my transition be to Mint?
Mint has a layout that is very similar to Windows, especially 7/10/11.
If you want, you can run Open Office or something similar, but it would be a waste with such low resources...
If you just surf, you can just load Chrome as the browser, at that point it's basically identical to a Windows experience with Chrome. And last I looked, Mint was one of the Linux flavors that was ok putting in the various codec's so everything would be plug and play- for a casual device that you don't want to go digging around with.
Posted on 3/3/25 at 7:17 am to Scoob
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was ok putting in the various codec's so everything would be plug and pla
I appreciated the "what do I do first" tutorial that popped up when I booted the latest version. I ran through that, got codecs installed among other things like Brave and Steam, and was ready to go.
Posted on 3/3/25 at 8:07 am to LemmyLives
I think I'll try it out by running from a thumb drive. I think this computer has a special "light" version of Windows 10 and I don't want to throw that away unless I'm sure.
This post was edited on 3/3/25 at 9:35 am
Posted on 3/3/25 at 9:58 am to Stadium Rat
Have you looked at Damn Small Linux ??
Posted on 3/3/25 at 11:49 am to Stadium Rat
My chrome tabs are 500+mb each. Not sure you can even browse the web with such little ram.
Posted on 3/3/25 at 3:27 pm to j1897
quote:I've just installed Brave and it's working great so far.
My chrome tabs are 500+mb each. Not sure you can even browse the web with such little ram.
Posted on 3/3/25 at 4:43 pm to Stadium Rat
It's chromium, don't see how it could be that drastically different.
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