@yura @dps910 @wboss On those you could install @bunsenlabs or #TinyCoreLinux and they still have a useable system.

• In fact I do run that on a #VAIO #P11Z with the slow af #Atom #Z520 and the crappy #GMA500!

Sorry, but you didn't expect even a beefy PC from 1998 to be useable in 2016, so I can't fault a 2008 #Netbook for being EoL in 2026.

• For contect: If that Netbook was a human it would be legal for it to buy itself a beer, if not liquor in Germany!
• Seriously, do consider setting up some lightweight #Linux distro instead, cuz chances are the users of that machine only want to use it for small, lightweight tasks.
  • It'll take you like am hour or two to introduce them to it but drill down to them that #Windows7 is as much of a non-option as Tetraetyllead inbgasoline or Asbestos for oven mittens!

I mean, they don't expect to play Crysis on that thing, or are they that deranged?

@em_7dice +9001%

The only issues I had on #Linux fit on one hand and are solely the manufacturers being dicks:

• Intel #GMA500 &

• Intel GMA3xx0 aka. #Poulsbo / #US15W

• #AMD pre-#FLOSS'd drivers and old #ATi cards that need them.

• #Nvidia being dicks and not offering feature-parity for their #GPU #drivers acrss platforms as well as actively working against FLOSS #driver #developers...

• #Fibocom #850GL aka. #Intel #XMM7360 and neither of them nor #Lenovo willing to #support that #WWAM module on an "#UbuntuCertified", €3k+ #ThinkPad #P15v #Workstation #Laptop running #Ubuntu 20.04 LTS!

@wyatt nodds in agreement

I'm still angry at #Intel and #ImaginationTechnologies for not releasing the #sourcecode for the #GMA500 & #GMA3100 / #GMA3150 "#iGPU" aka. #Pulsbo!

@phoronix I'm still mad that #Intel refuses to fix the #GMA500 & #GMA3**0 drivers.

• Yes I know it's a #PowerVR SGX and no IDGAF about any excuses: They stickered their name on top of it = they're to be blamed!

Same with the #XMM7360...

#plzfix #Linux #drivers

@Ninji could be worse...

#GMA500 is a mess...

@topher if you like #SGI #IRIX, then maybe @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabs woth it's #OpenBox desktop is right up your alley?

• It's a #Debian-based distro and it barely sips resources to the point that even a #Poulsbo (#AtomZ520 + #GMA500)-based #Netbook (in my case a Vaio #P11Z) can run it fluidly as software renderer (#llvmpipe)...

@EpicPawt I can recommend to take a look at #TinyCore and #BunsenLabs if you like some #smol #desktop #distro...

TinyCore is a #BusyBox / #Linux and @bunsenlabs is a nifty #Debian derivate which runs even on a #GMA500 / #Poulsbo / #IntelAtom Z-series system like the #VaioP11Z just fine despite using #llvmpipe for rendering...

@krutonium I can recommend @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabsLinux which runs smooth in my #Vaio #P11Z with the shitty #GMA500 in #llvmpipe.

• If that's too straining, consider #TinyCore, which us a #BusyBox-based distro - abeit very minimalist.

Those are the options with a fancy #GUI.

• I aim for #i486 with @OS1337 (if #Linux didn't cancel #i386 and #toxbox never bothered with it, I'd aim dir that!) but as of now that isn't useable.

@krutonium @darth +1

Until they do that, I #WontBuy any new device from them.

• #EoL is not a valid reason to let them off the hook for anything!

And yes, I'm still #mad at #Intel for the #GMA500 fuckup and at #Fibocom, #Lenovo and #Intel for the #XMM7360 / #850GL shitshow and at #nvidia for their bs...

• I don't forgive nor forget; at least not towards #corporations who didn't even try to say sorry in the most #PR-speak - esque fashion...

@sodiboo if you think #nvidia is shit, wait till you get #Itel's shotty #Rebadge if #PowerVR SGX aka. #GMA500 & GMA3xx0-Series...

• Your only options are #llvmpipe which is a pain in the ass on those #IntelAtom chips or nothing at all...