I have an old laptop. dual pentiam , vista installed when dell sold it. has windows 11 now. was coding a little scriptng and everything seemed to be going fine. Then defender got involved.
run some searches and ended up on git but nothing there worked. So I was thinking maybe I get a linux server. but which one. I want to match my resources with the os, gui is a must have.
I like the mate desktop and debian but debian 12 is to heavy for this laptop. debian 12 is slow in this the way superman is fast. and thats a problem like all os's if you don't have the latest you don't really have a usable system. don't need a lot of fancy programs on it. a strictly coding envirement is fine. I have all ways heard that you could build stuff for windows on linux and run them in your windows machine. I have done some builds using resource files. So while I can not say I know What I am doing. I can say I can figure it out. Not worried about secerity be cause this laptop has a wifi button on it. If I am not actively searching the web I just turn my wifi off. the broadcom drivers are hard to get working on linux but have installed them in debian so they work. Anyway thats the back story.
I was thinking maybe I could throw on some system on here that I could use to costomize or cutom build a linux os for just this laptop. Not really intersted in building anything to post on the web. I would like to get windows under control and have come to the conclusion that it needs to be done while it is not running. Any help is apreciated. definatly a long term project.
Going to upload a system resources file so maybe the people that know linux os will have all the info to help me.
run some searches and ended up on git but nothing there worked. So I was thinking maybe I get a linux server. but which one. I want to match my resources with the os, gui is a must have.
I like the mate desktop and debian but debian 12 is to heavy for this laptop. debian 12 is slow in this the way superman is fast. and thats a problem like all os's if you don't have the latest you don't really have a usable system. don't need a lot of fancy programs on it. a strictly coding envirement is fine. I have all ways heard that you could build stuff for windows on linux and run them in your windows machine. I have done some builds using resource files. So while I can not say I know What I am doing. I can say I can figure it out. Not worried about secerity be cause this laptop has a wifi button on it. If I am not actively searching the web I just turn my wifi off. the broadcom drivers are hard to get working on linux but have installed them in debian so they work. Anyway thats the back story.
I was thinking maybe I could throw on some system on here that I could use to costomize or cutom build a linux os for just this laptop. Not really intersted in building anything to post on the web. I would like to get windows under control and have come to the conclusion that it needs to be done while it is not running. Any help is apreciated. definatly a long term project.
Going to upload a system resources file so maybe the people that know linux os will have all the info to help me.