[ale] lite linux, bodhi vs LXLE vs Puppy, trying to revive old machine

[David Jackson]

I'll go ahead and recommend LXLE.  I'm running it on a T60 Thinkpad in a
32-bit config.  The distro apparently is not dead!!!

I had actually thought that because LXDE had become LXQt on the Ubuntu
upstream side, that since this distro would die on the vine due to a
heavier weight desktop no longer working as well on older 32-bit systems.
32-bit systems aren't as provided for as they used to be; lots of 32-bit
versions of favorite distros are disappearing, since there are fewer of
those systems around these days, and I thought LXLE would fall victim to
that trend.  But it turns out I'm wrong, and the one-man dev team (I think)
is turning out fixes, and my T60 feels cared for again!

I always thought LXLE had some artistically savvy people working with it,
because the included wallpapers are lovely and nice design choices had been
made on it.  I think I number of people had been using it as a main desktop
distro, it's just that nicely finished.

Anyway, I tried Bodhi, but the desktop seemed pretty unstable from my
experience.  Last time I tried Puppy was long ago, when it was based on
Slackware.  LXLE was a pleasant surprise from my experience.

Dave

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 7:40 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> openSUSE Tumbleweed 32 as well, but of the four you posted puppy linux,
> even debian 32 bit.
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 2:44 PM Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> No, but I could absolutely Gentoo the crap out of it even if it's 32-bit,
>> and run modern versions of everything.
>>
>> On 10/6/19 10:49 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha via Ale wrote:
>>
>> Friends:
>>
>> Any one has experience with Bodhi vs LXLE vs Puppy linux for an old Dell
>> PC.
>>
>> 2GB ram with old cpu.
>>
>> -Narahari
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