Little Distro That Could

[raymac46]

About 5 years ago I helped my neighbor install a network and new printer. He had just gotten a new i5 laptop because he was frustrated with his 2010 Toshiba NB305 Netbook. He was going to junk it but I took it off his hands. It is a nice piece of hardware but has only 2 GB max RAM and at the time ran Windows 7 Starter. It was slow and brain dead.

I replaced its HDD with a cheap 64GB SSD and for the first time installed Arch Linux. That was also about 5 years ago I think.

It has been rock stable ever since. Just updated again yesterday. It's pretty useless for web surfing but I can do some word processing/spreadsheet stuff with it. I need a lightweight browser like Midori to do any web stuff at all. I started out with Xfce and now run LXQt on it. I keep it going as proof of concept of how stable Arch Linux is. Arch is truly the little distro that could on this ancient Netbook.

Edited February 28, 2023 by raymac46