• SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      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

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        6 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.