• Emerald@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ten year old laptop is 2013 (this post seems to be from 2023). That’s really not old at all. I use a 17 year old machine and it works great for basic tasks.

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      5 months ago

      17? As in 2007? What are the specs on that thing? You running a lightweight linux distro on it? Surely you have an SSD in there and have upgraded the ram.

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        5 months ago

        It’s a ThinkPad T61 running Gentoo. I upgraded it to 4GB of RAM and an SSD. Works fine with 10 browser tabs and youtube

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            5 months ago

            It’s interesting how light KDE has gotten. It used to be the big, bloated desktop environment that you wouldn’t even try using on old hardware. It seems to have traded places with GNOME.

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              5 months ago

              I mean it’s not like I have a choice. If I stop using KDE then Konqi will come to my house at night and kill me in my sleep. I’ve sold my soul to them

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                5 months ago

                i’ve used KDE for 4 years, jumped off prior to KDE6 to move to i3wm, and he hasn’t killed me yet.

                I’m also a furry, so that’s probably why.

                TL;DR just be a furry and it won’t be a problem lmao.