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i am still useing sometimes an eee-PC 701, 900mhz, 2gb ram, 4gb ssd, 16gb sdcard, as work/everyday linux machine. web, email, python, C/++, vim, whatever. That
by svilen_dobrev 5y ago
i am still useing sometimes an eee-PC 701, 900mhz, 2gb ram, 4gb ssd, 16gb sdcard, as work/everyday linux machine. web, email, python, C/++, vim, whatever. That means what, 12 years? Waw. Original battery still holds 1+hours. Now on archlinux 32bit, about 2 years old.
And all is fine.
Sometimes also i teach python classes, and that is being carried around and vga-projected.
- andi999 5y agoHow do you survive the keyboard long term?
- svilen_dobrev 5y agoit just works? Maybe coz i don't pound it, it doesnot need to. The right arrow sometimes misses, but only sometimes. And i had to fix/glue the touchpad buttons, they started to come out. you know, i have even intentionaly thrown the thing a few times on the (hard) floor, just to show off how sturdy it is :) And baked it on the beach (the fan is cut off since day one).. Excellent quality, sturdy and durable machine, i haven't seen anything comparable ever since. And it wasn't even expensive..
- andi999 5y agoThanks. I didn't mean the quality of the keyboard which seems to be very high from your reply. I meant when I typed on the eee my hands started to hurt quickly, the spacing of the keys seemed to small to comfortably use my 6 finger typing system.
- anthk 5y agoI suggest you Void Linux, it has a musl build. It may run far better than Arch.
- fogihujy 5y agoI used a Samsung netbook for many years until it broke during an upgrade attempt. They were surprisingly capable.
- UncleSlacky 5y agoThe battery on mine's pretty much dead, I've replaced the keyboard and power supply over the years and it keeps on going. I'm running Haiku OS at the moment, but Void, antiX, EXE GNU/Linux, Q4OS Trinity, Refracta and even (once it finishes booting) MX Linux will run acceptably on it.