Oddbean new post about login | logout I am so frustrated because I finally have time to program, but my computer is such a mess, that I only work on my computer. 😭
Especially, as I just worked on my last computer, before I turned it in. I feel like I spend more time on programming environments than on programming. Just sitting here, watching my laptop think...
Sometimes you have to invest a bit on time upfront to save a lot of time down the road. Hoping that's the case with yours...
Solved with NixOS. Setup time goes from weeks to a few days.
what are your computer specs ?
Asus Eee PC running Linux
oh, you definitely need an upgrade.
I don't have Warlord Money. Don't even have Upgrade Money. And I haven't even told you about my phone.
Nothing comes with 1gb of ram these days, except tiny micros. Can you jam at least 2gb of ram in there? That would seriously help.
16 GB would be even more of a help. 😂
You COULD get an older desktop or server, install Linux and VNC, connect it to your wifi, and stash it under the stairs / wherever. Then your lappie can VNC into it and use its (undoubtedly much better) RAM and CPU to run heavy apps. I did this recently during a summer heatwave here.
We have a NAS.
A commercial NAS is great for storage, but probably no better than your laptop for RAM and CPU, sadly...
I used to have one! So compact! The OEM battery in mine was rubbish though, upgraded to some monster 12-cell that went for days
It's a hand-me-down from my BIL to my son to my husband to me. When I say I want something new, I get other people's old stuff and then they buy themselves something new.
Based. You can "cheat" ridiculously on hardware when using a minimalist Linux OS, but full-featured browsers are the thing that catches me every time...
Running Primal on Firefox with 1 GB of RAM and an Atom single core. 🤪
Wait, what??? FR?? HOW?? Ma'am, we have native clients for a reason...
Dude, let me tell you about my phone...
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviation pioneer
So you run linux mint on 1 gb ram and atom? Linux mint is way too heavy for this. Too heavy. Other distros can work with it, but they are not for someone that just came to linux 🤔
It's MATE, not Cinnamon.
Doesn't matter in your 1gb atom case. Too heavy.
I would go for antix linux in your case (i don't really bother systemd isn't there) but can you work with it?
It's no problem I used Ubuntu on it some 12 years ago because Ubuntu was one of the few/first supporting all drivers out of the box. (Was the first and only time I used Ubuntu, I was really surprised how well it ran). 1 GB is absolutely no problem, really like NO problem. It did everything, catching and recording time delayed(buffered) dvbt video via USB radio stick, chrome with multiple tabs, having thunderbird open all the time, downsizing torrents, using the xmms player integrated in fvwm via shortcuts. Normal compiling tasks via gcc etc are also absolutely in the range of this machine, you don't need to wait years for it to finish. Just run fvwm or another window manager that's low on resources. Rox filer. The EeePC is so nice, looks like shit but really nice. Finally a Sub-notebook with full keyboard any pleb could afford.
it was on one of those that i was chatting in the freenode #bitcoin channel back in the day... it has ethernet too... and that came straight through my kitchen wall from a cable run across the road to a router on a pole... bulgaria, circa 2013... for some reason i have this memory that it was pink, i don't think it was white or grey lol bought it at a CEX store in blackpool
tiling wm or just a wm ftw.