I jumped into the #LocOS IRC for a moment (with HexChat on LoCOS itself). It’s mostly Spanish speaking and there were like 3 users online counting me .
#LocOS really started as a one man project and now there are three main contributors on the main page. Feels pretty polished taking this into account. I’d personally change some default images that don’t look very professional but overall it looks much more modern on XFCE build than say AntiX does with the default IceWM theme.
So bought a used ThinkPad T61 (core 2 duo 4GB ram) for about 111$ + 30$ for a new battery *
I know I could get a faster CPU for that price but that’s not the point. I am a pervert and want a laptop that is slow (but of quality) to fiddle with lightweight operating systems.
it is very close to AntiX (of which it derived) so same tips usually work
in the end it’s not different from what you could get of Debian but it’s a good set of presets to start from quickly to get a lightweight XFCE (my choice) or LXDE desktop
it is really great to salvage old hardware you feel like trashing on Mac OS as they get slower / unsupported
Small detail about #LocOS you will notice only from a remote session. One core has very high usage for a simple screensaver.
It seems it’s not properly going to sleep afterwards. Maybe some ACPI issue or maybe because it has auto login and no auto lock. It’s a machine intentionally in free access.
So I decided to try LocOS -KDE version on the 2014 mac Mini. It was reponsive but just like the heavier KDE neon at some point it ended locking up the GUI while I was doing updates. I could still exit with ALT+F2.
@lerudd I am really impressed with latest #LocOS + XFCE. Easy to understand , fast, light. Efficient. Good choice of default stuff. 2010 Mini had become very sluggish on MacOS unless you stuck to an outdated version.
Playing 480p YouTube video on this Core 2 Duo with no hiccups using 1.8GB of RAM. This one has 8GB but they sold 2GB versions back then.
@lerudd actually memory usage after reboot & autologin is only 350 mb when obtained from a remote SSH session (no app opened outside desktop + menu apps themselves)