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The Superior Lemmy Experience (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to c/retrocomputing
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Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 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

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 33 points 10 months ago

Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn't look amazing

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 16 points 10 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@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Yo is the a gamecube emulator????

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 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@lemmings.world 4 points 10 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@radiation.party 1 points 9 months ago

Classicube is pretty sick

[-] thomask 11 points 10 months ago

IrfanView, now that's the good stuff

[-] dacat 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

How does one install that? My japanese isnt the best

[-] prokyonid 1 points 10 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.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

This doesn't look amazing

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

everyone has a different taste I guess

[-] wesker 12 points 10 months ago

Sir, this is the retro computing community.

[-] Bitrot 9 points 10 months ago

We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 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.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Oh for sure, i didnt mean to imply that it was objectively bad. Just not for me

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Make a computer look like what? Windows 2000?

[-] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

your life will improve if you stop sorting yourself and everyone else into arbitrary groups of named generations, that have more difference within them than between them..

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Generations are useful in the case of aesthetics because each generation has a different source of nostalgia

[-] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

so someone born in 1997 has a different source of nostalgia to someone born in 1996, but the same as someone born in 1998?

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 10 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@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 points 10 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@dubvee.org 3 points 10 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.

[-] Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

2 bucks ? its a steal .

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah. Was really suprised it worked without problems

[-] Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am happy for you my guy/gal

[-] hexagonwin 4 points 10 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@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] addison@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

RES?

[-] addison@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Reddit Enhancement Suite.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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