8 mo. ago • 95%

The Superior Lemmy Experience

Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
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Ill admit it is cool but as a zoomer i will never understand the millenial desire to make a computer look like this by choice

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- Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn't look amazing
  
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  Ok your desktop goes fucking hard, im just very particular about my browsing experience
  
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  IrfanView, now that's the good stuff
  
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  It's the Lilac color scheme that really makes it - we had that on my family's first PC and classic Win UIs don't look quite right to me without it.
  
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  Nice! If you aren't already, you should use the win2k kernelex.
  
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  This doesn't look amazing
  
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- Sir, this is the retro computing community.
  
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- We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug
  
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- I think it deals with familiarity defining personal aesthetic? You grow up within a space, and the trends of that space become the norm, and within that norm there's a sweet spot that's 'cool'.
  
  Every generation that grows up in a dramatically different aesthetic space thus ends up with completely different aesthetics from one another.
  
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  Oh for sure, i didnt mean to imply that it was objectively bad. Just not for me
  
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- Make a computer look like what? Windows 2000?
  
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- your life will improve if you stop sorting yourself and everyone else into arbitrary groups of named generations, that have more difference within them than between them..
  
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  Generations are useful in the case of aesthetics because each generation has a different source of nostalgia
  
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Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market.

As one should always do xD

I am a die-hard Linux user, but damn if I don't miss Windows 2000. It was minimalist, stable, and got the job done.

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- I initially tried to run debian 12 with xfce on it but it was horribly slow (looked like a gpu driver issue, didnt care enough to troubleshoot) so I decided to go the win2k route
  
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  Yeah, I've never had a good experience with Linux on any Peintium 4 (though II and III worked great). The last time I tried was on an old P4 IBM ThinkCenter. Like you said, could be GPU, but even non-graphics tasks were sluggish on it.
  
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2 bucks ? its a steal .

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- Yeah. Was really suprised it worked without problems
  
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  I am happy for you my guy/gal
  
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With 1024 megs of ram I guess you'll be able to run roytam1's new browsers (K-Meleon, NewMoon27/28, IceApe-UXP, etc) using Win2K extended kernel as well. (win2k.org)

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Man I'm getting old. The PCs from my teen years are now considered retro. To me, retro computing is pre-MSDOS.

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Why does it look like you're running RES??

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- It's this frontend that makes Lemmy look like old Reddit.
  
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  Thank you. I caught the URL and tested it already. Just forgot my follow up.
  
  I didn't know old.lemmy was made to look like RES for reddit. Neat.
  
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- RES?
  
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  Reddit Enhancement Suite.
  
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