puppylinux-unofficial
puppylinux-unofficial
teaching old laptops new tricks
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I'm puppy, the lightweight Linux distro meant to run entirely in memory on older systems, and can save filesystem changes to a CD-R! she/they
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puppylinux-unofficial · 3 months ago
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yeah, I use linux.
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puppylinux-unofficial · 5 months ago
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um... Woof?
me to my girlfriends: oh my god nobody has puppy-linux-official yet them: what is puppy linux oh how the ancient magicks have been forgotten in the name of ubuntu liveCDs
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puppylinux-unofficial · 5 months ago
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build a puppy using woof.
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puppylinux-unofficial · 5 months ago
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Oh my god I just found a 1998 "laptop" in my dad's old stuff. It doesn't look broken and I might get it to work because this thang doesn't have a power brick, you plug it into the AC directly
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puppylinux-unofficial · 5 months ago
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I'm familiar with doing to XFCE, which lets you run arbitrary commands on login, logoff, or shutdown in the "session and startup" settings, and running a CLI audio player like aplay to play the sound on those conditions. Anyways, I've got a better suggestion for your shitty old laptop, one that has security updates newer than 10 years old and a cute little doggy for an icon
do you have a shitty laptop, run Windows XP on it
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puppylinux-unofficial · 6 months ago
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you can configure ur puppygirl’s settingns in the. paws.menu,,
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puppylinux-unofficial · 6 months ago
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I miss running puppy Linux on shitty Compaq presarios back in ~2012.
now *that* was computing.
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puppylinux-unofficial · 6 months ago
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Y'know that really old computer you might have around, perhaps a family member used it when you were growing up, or a grandparent left it behind?* Puppy Linux can be put on a CD or flash drive, and you can explore the contents of the hard drive even if no one can remember the logon information
And if you want to find a use for that machine, puppy can be installed directly to the hard drive. Some computers may not handle modern web browsing well due to the small amount of RAM, but they can still email, work with word documents, play music and video, and all sorts of other small, easy tasks you may want to do away from your main device
Never hurts to try!
*realistically machines made after 1997, even then some may not have enough RAM to boot puppy Linux
i think people should try a little Linux, just for something different yknow
doesn’t have to be any specific “beginner-friendly” distro or whatever, could just be WSL even . just gives you a different perspective on OSs :)
like if you’re sick of Windows/MacOS and are frustrated that you need to keep upgrading your hardware to run the newest versions, why not experience something else and download VirtualBox n try out a Linux distro for a bit, see if you like it,, I think you might be surprised by some of em :)
i still use Windows 10 for my desktop, mainly for gaming and art etc, but i switched over to Linux Mint on my laptop a while ago and have used it for school, and it’s been running better than when it had Windows on it. does what i need it to do, and using the terminal to do stuff feels fun and kinda powerful with how easy it is to install stuff with it :)
was there troubleshooting involved? yes, but it was often fixed by just looking up your problem and finding answers on stackexchange or linux forums, not too different from troubleshooting windows tbh lol
i’ve also recently got a mini pc to use as a little server for stuff, like discord bots. even tho the specs are a little on the lower side, it’s still able to run stuff pretty well since I installed Xubuntu on it, which is specifically designed to be quite light on system resources, and it’s been great too :)
anyways point is,, try out Linux in some form, why not :) if you have an old laptop/desktop sitting around, try reviving it by installing a lightweight linux distro on it! the less e-waste the better :3
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puppylinux-unofficial · 6 months ago
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Some of you are in the pocket of Big Puppy and it shows 🙄🙄🙄
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puppylinux-unofficial · 6 months ago
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Why limit yourself? There's so many choices with diffrent kernel bases for old systems like that!
I have an old laptop laying around... I should make use of it...
Should I install @arch-official or @gentoo-official on it?
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puppylinux-unofficial · 6 months ago
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I'm fine with Windows users but do they have to do it in public? How am I supposed to explain it to my child? It's just not natural.
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puppylinux-unofficial · 7 months ago
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Puppy user slenderman: collect my seven save folders
Operating system Slenderman would be like "collect my seven page files" or something idk I woke up at 4am to post this and I'm going back to sleep bye
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puppylinux-unofficial · 7 months ago
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blocking literally isnt personal and it has zero ill effect on anybody. all it is is you cant see or interact with someones posts. thats it lol
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puppylinux-unofficial · 7 months ago
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>calls for puppies
>doesn't include me
I'm jumping into the tgirl cuddle pile to spite y'all now
Woof woof :3
Reblog this to give the person you reblogged it from estrogen.
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puppylinux-unofficial · 7 months ago
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heavy are the tits that make linuxblog posts or whatever they say
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puppylinux-unofficial · 7 months ago
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I understand puppies now
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puppylinux-unofficial · 7 months ago
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Hey that's my gimmick :(
Reblog this to give the person you reblogged it from estrogen.
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