The next "back from travel" to-do is installing Debian on my old 32bit netbook.
It went well and now I'm in the phase of looking up how to do things in Debian that are not as apparent as they are for Xubuntu.
For example, installing gnome-system-tools to have a GUI tool for managing user accounts and groups.
Another was for the touchpad, doing a setting to have taps count as mouse clicks.
Next is: customise GDM or replace it with LightDM for clicking to select login account? #Debian
@geraldew And for slightly better machines, MX Linux. Same Debian base, antiX-related, but a little bit easier to use and nicer, at the cost of slightly heavier footprint. ;)
@array good suggestions to note.
I don't really know what this machine is for now. In March 2020 it became my work-from-home computer with just the task of running a Citrix client for remoting to the office. Thus allowing my main personal computer to remain always free for my own use. At that point it had Xubuntu 18.04 on it, which was still current.
Fast forward to now, I have a newer 64bit laptop, letting my old one take that role.
As 18.04 no longer updates, hence over to Debian which does.
@geraldew Just for reference, I could run a Centrino, single core, 32 bits, 512 MB laptop with antiX. It could even start Firefox and browse lightweight pages, as I said it really has very low requirements and footprint and 32 bits is still supported. And of course it flies with better hardware. ;) Anyway if your machine works fine with Debian then it's perfect, Debian is plain awesome. I run Sid myself in my desktop PC with Xfce and I couldn't be happier. :)
@geraldew Just saying, but for a really old, low end machine, my go to has been antiX. It has a Debian base, but everything is done to have as much convenience as possible with the lowest possible footprint. It's a paradise for CLI lovers, but anyway you can do most common things in either GUI or CLI. :)
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