About the same, I have an old netbook HP Mini 311 with an Atom 270 or something, it came with 1GB of RAM and winXP, I installed another 2GB to have 3GB, worked fine, then installed MX Linux with Xfce, even the nvidia GPU was working fine in it.

For fun I tried to install win10Pro, it worked!!! was basically unusable, but it booted to the desktop.

I was checking a Dell laptop, going from 32GB to 64GB is a $1700 option, WTF :-(

In Linux I use code for coding, and nano for everything else

I started using un*x on mainframe (aix, irix, hpux, etc). On a regular PC you could have SVR4, BSD, Minix, things like this, then linux came, in the 90s we had no CD, we downloaded the floppies images from ftp on the university server, then rushed to home to install linux on a 486, we did a lot of compile ourselves, no choice back in time. I used some distro after, like Mandrake (I’m French) but always liked the DIY thing, but it was more and more complicated and long… this is why I started using Debian in the days…

Old coot here

I started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies… then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)

No it’s made by a human artist

I’m using MX Linux AHS for yyyeeeaaaarrrssss as my daily desktop for personal use and work development.

It is based on Debian, systemd optionnal, packages always up to date, no flatpak, I only use .deb

What I like is it simply works. From USB install using LUKS/btrfs without messing anything, to using Xfce with minimal GUI, everything works, no drivers problem, etc.

Yes MX Linux is awesome.

My minimal desktop, no icons, just a bar at the bottom with menu/applications/system tray icons

I think we can see who downvoted on lemmy, but I don’t care why he did it, really…

:)

This could be me, I started on unix before Linux existed. I was on HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris1/2, and I did the same thing, went in /usr/bin, did a ls, man all the commands, this is how I learnt unix command, shell, awk, grep, sed, etc.