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My first ever computer was a laptop with a first gen Atom and 1GB of RAM. Single-core, no hyperthreading. I was super excited and loved it, but it was so slow t
by Nitrolo 4y ago
My first ever computer was a laptop with a first gen Atom and 1GB of RAM. Single-core, no hyperthreading.
I was super excited and loved it, but it was so slow that it felt unusable even to me as a young teenager that didn't know any better.
Guess I should be thankful though, in trying to get it to be faster I discovered that some Linux distros can be very lightweight, and it started me down a rabbit hole I'm still going down.
- triyambakam 4y agoThat's the same computer I learned to program with. I was forced to use vim because of system resources. And now I'm glad.
- nivenkos 4y agoIt's funny how many of us have the same story. It was a bit like the microcomputers in that respect.
- actionfromafar 4y agoTinyXP ran very well on this class of computers, especially for as long as Firefox supported XP, it was a really useful platform. Sort of like a chromebook before chromebook. I later did a lot of C, PHP and Python programming in Linux + Emacs on such a computer, so not completely useless.