Unsuprisingly #kdeneon does not finish booting on the Gateway #netbook. But it does boot, I got all the way to a cursor and lost patience after 10 or 20 minutes.
For sure, a live boot version is going to be too slow with only 1GB of RAM.
But I'm pretty confident KDE Plasma will run on this system. I'll try Debian or something suitably lightweight.
I'd go ahead with FreeBSD but I had enough fun updating across versions and hard drives are slow.
@0mega Yeah, I too like that one and wanted to get my hands on it.
It's basically " #Netbook, but #ThinkPad - shaped! " with the cheap Options using Netbook- & #Nettop APUs from #AMD that competed against #Intel's #Atom and #NvidiaIon [or rather the #Ion2 with #OptimusGraphics...
- Anyone else remember *THAT* shitshow?
@marta right now, due to the AIslop bubble, the entire market is fucked…
#Commentary #AIslop #tech #Inflation #Laptop #Netbook #Laptops #Netbooks #eWaste #AntiRepairDesign #Refurbisher #refurbished
Never thought I would get fond of this 2015 MacBook Air 11" like I literally have a laptop with 64GB of RAM and a desktop with 256GB of RAM and here is this little shit with 4GB and a display resolution from the 90s and this is the one I use the most.
Really the lack of small laptop options sucks these days. Surface Go 4 never really happened and there's nothing in the netbook space any more. #netbook #openbsd #macbookair
Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve
Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/
#HackerNews #ChuwiMinibookX #netbook #TechReview #GadgetNews #PortableComputing
I decided to go on a work trip with my KooForWay P8.
Pros: lots of storage - 1TB on mine - so I can install office and everything I need for work. Reasonable performance provided Windows 11 isn't trying to install updates.
Cons: keyboard is tiny and nonstandard *especially* the symbols that I use a lot. Windows touchscreen interface is sometimes nice but sometimes just broken in particular apps, feels like it was made by 5 different teams in different decades.
#computing #laptop #netbook
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