The Superior Lemmy Experience

Psythik, 2 months ago

Man I’m getting old. The PCs from my teen years are now considered retro. To me, retro computing is pre-MSDOS.

hexagonwin, 2 months ago

With 1024 megs of ram I guess you’ll be able to run roytam1’s new browsers (K-Meleon, NewMoon27/28, IceApe-UXP, etc) using Win2K extended kernel as well. (win2k.org)

Landless2029, 2 months ago

Why does it look like you’re running RES??

Oha, 2 months ago

RES?

addison, 2 months ago

Reddit Enhancement Suite.

addison, 2 months ago

It’s this frontend that makes Lemmy look like old Reddit.

Landless2029, 2 months ago

Thank you. I caught the URL and tested it already. Just forgot my follow up.

I didn’t know old.lemmy was made to look like RES for reddit. Neat.

Random_internet_user, 2 months ago

2 bucks ? its a steal .

Oha, 2 months ago

Yeah. Was really suprised it worked without problems

Random_internet_user, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I am happy for you my guy/gal

ptz, 2 months ago

Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market.

As one should always do xD

I am a die-hard Linux user, but damn if I don’t miss Windows 2000. It was minimalist, stable, and got the job done.

Oha, 2 months ago

I initially tried to run debian 12 with xfce on it but it was horribly slow (looked like a gpu driver issue, didnt care enough to troubleshoot) so I decided to go the win2k route

ptz, 2 months ago

Yeah, I’ve never had a good experience with Linux on any Peintium 4 (though II and III worked great). The last time I tried was on an old P4 IBM ThinkCenter. Like you said, could be GPU, but even non-graphics tasks were sluggish on it.

sharkfucker420, 2 months ago

Ill admit it is cool but as a zoomer i will never understand the millenial desire to make a computer look like this by choice

wesker, 2 months ago

Sir, this is the retro computing community.

Oha, 2 months ago

Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn’t look amazing
https://files.catbox.moe/udgbq3.png

thomask, 2 months ago

IrfanView, now that’s the good stuff

sharkfucker420, 2 months ago

Ok your desktop goes fucking hard, im just very particular about my browsing experience

Oha, 2 months ago

I obviously dont use a 24 years old OS as my daily driver. I just love to play around with a OS thats older than me

sharkfucker420, 2 months ago

Yo is the a gamecube emulator???

Oha, 2 months ago

Nope. Only have n64 and snes atm. Dont think this laptop would run gc at a playable framerate.
Edit: In case you are talking about classicube: Thats a rewrite(afaik) of one of the alpha versions of Minecraft

sharkfucker420, 2 months ago

Damn, i miss gamecube and was hoping youd tell me it was a good one so i didnt have to go looking myself

eRac, 2 months ago

Dolphin is the main GC/Wii emulator. It works great on a modern-ish computer, but you can’t really run it on GC-era hardware.

andrew, 1 month ago

Classicube is pretty sick

idunnololz, 2 months ago

This doesn’t look amazing

Oha, 2 months ago

everyone has a different taste I guess

dacat, 2 months ago

Nice! If you aren’t already, you should use the win2k kernelex.

Oha, 2 months ago

How does one install that? My japanese isnt the best

prokyonid, 2 months ago

It’s the Lilac color scheme that really makes it - we had that on my family’s first PC and classic Win UIs don’t look quite right to me without it.

Bitrot, 2 months ago

We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug

JayDee, 2 months ago

I think it deals with familiarity defining personal aesthetic? You grow up within a space, and the trends of that space become the norm, and within that norm there’s a sweet spot that’s ‘cool’.

Every generation that grows up in a dramatically different aesthetic space thus ends up with completely different aesthetics from one another.