What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

[piperdan]

Old-ish retired engineer here. Was sitting in a meeting where I brought my old battle-scarred, heavy, and very solid 10 year old Dell Latitude E6430, while surrounded by others with mostly sleek macbooks and one Dell XPS. They looked at my laptop with a "does that thing still work?" look, while MX Linux fired up very quickly and very snappy with its SSD drive and 16G ram, and its built like a tank. It was a fun experience, kind of like driving up to a group of Tesla's with a '57 Chevy. Granted, my battery doesn't last as long and the display is nowhere near a retina display. Still, with XFCE themed out just like I like it, and as snappy as it is, its awesome.

https://imgur.com/9sBnSrY.png

Anyone else have have an old beast that they are still grateful to own and proud to run?



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[JayM]

I was using MX 18.3 on an olde HP dv6-2130tx laptop until my dog knocked it onto a tile floor and the fan broke. I've been meaning to get it repaired then increasing its DDR3 1066 RAM to 8GB (its maximum) and installing a SATA SSD but I never seem to get around to it, now that the nearest repair shop is open again. I really need to do that as I think I'll have a need and use for it in the next few months. I love the fact that it has a nearly full-size keyboard and a 15.6 inch screen though at 1366x768 resolution.

[asqwerth]

Granted it's only used as a backup (it's really heavy and battery life is poor), but I still have a roughly 2010 ASUS X42D laptop working just fine on MX19.

It was just put to the test last December when my sis and family visited. My nephew had to spend a week in hospital and I lent him the old clunker so he could surf the web and watch youtube. Very basic tasks, nothing too taxing on the cpu or graphics card, but at least I know it can still do its job.

[chrispop99]

I have several E6430 machines, and they are great. So easy to repair or upgrade. I have two family members that run their small businesses using E6430s with MX Linux on.

I also have some Thinkpad T430 machines of a similar era that I use all the time for testing. I have a couple of XPS 13s, and although 'pretty', they don't really work that much faster than the older ones.

Chris

[GuiGuy]

I have a couple of eeePC901s running MX19.
They run rather slowly with the old Atom processor but my wife and I like them for their smallness, lightness and good battery life.

Older laptops with only 512k RAM cannot run MX, but are usable with AntiX.

[markol]

I'm running MX21 KDE on Asus EEE 1000HG (2010 probably; 2gb, Atom, SSD). It's more or less just a backup of a backup machine, but it's fun and has one of the best keyboards I have ever tried. Screen resolution is a bit too small (1024x600, no touch) so I had to install Plasma instead of XFCE.
Hardware doesn't allow anything fancy, but it runs (almost) smoothly - if you don't open too many tabs :)

Oh, and kids have their T440s (which are from 2014 IIRC?) running MX21 KDE

[Artim]

I have an ancient Dell Dimension with 512 RAM and an old Celeron processor i386 that runs 32-bit antiX - with the xfce desktop added - nice 'n' fast.

[ceeslans]

I have MX21 Fluxbox 'flying' on my main Sony Vaio (2010) machine, as did Debian- and MX based Xfce editions previously .
This laptop came with - and still has - an i7 (2nd gen) Cpu and with 6gb ram. Sofar only changed the HDD for a dirtcheap Kingfast 240gb SSD. This machine now has roughly 16.000 operating hours on the counter; it is running a bit hotter than it should (idling at around 50°C) and battery condition only at max 80%. But still with a deadpixel-free display and overall great performance, I'm a happy camper...

[j2mcgreg]

The oldest machine I have currently is the Acer Aspire V5 in my signature which dates from 2013.

[dolphin_oracle]

the T530 in my signature is of 2012 vintage. The dvd has been removed and replaced with a second drive bay holding a 1tb spinning disk and the original spinning harddrive was replaced with a 500gb SSD. This is my main production machine, largely for the keyboard and extra drive bay. I would probably still be using my older T410 which had an even better keyboard, but the graphics in that machine do not support opengl3 which I need for some video recording tasks. Only 8gb of ram. I have built the MX isos on this machine, but I have another more powerful machine for that now, but that machine has a keyboard and port configuration that is so annoying I can't stand to use it for production despite it being superior in spec in every other way.