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If you simply MUST have KDE from "back in the day", try TDE Ubuntu or Q4OS.

I don't have to have it, but it was nice because it showed the hard drives and connected devices, on this Bodhi Linux it does not show the hard drive by default, maybe I don't know what I am doing to view it.

MANY Desktops will show that--it depends on the File Manager installed (PCManFM does a good job). KDE SUCKS--literally--RAM, CPU energy, Hard Drive space, you name it!
Try Sparky minimalGUI which uses Openbox, or Bunsenlabs Hydrogen--also Openbox, or Arch-based OBRevenge--again Openbox, or get used to AntiX's IceWM. By the bye, I am 64, been on Social Security Disability since 2011, and have re-taught myself Linux by distro hopping since January, and MX is the most stable--and versatile--distro of the over 100 I have tried in the last 11 months--including Bodhi. I have an ancient homebuilt desktop that I originally put together from parts from Newegg.com in 2002. It has an nVidia motherboard from 2006 (because the original one fried 2 of its memory sockets), a 32bit AMD Athlon 2200+ cpu, and 3 memory cards--a 1 GB, a 512 MB, and a 256 MB. It runs MX-15 perfectly. I also own a plethora of 10" netbooks dating as far back as 2009--all of which originally came with only 1 GB RAM, and all of which I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM, the first time back in 2011 paying $78 for a 2 GB stick! In THESE days of REALLY cheap RAM, only persons with a Scrooge mentality would purposefully shoot themselves in the foot trying to get by with 512MB when their machine will happily take 4 times that!

Yeah, I just got this box last week, so I have not had a chance to even buy the memory yet.

But it is running video from YouTube right now fine, I'm sure some programs might stall with this little of RAM though.

MX is fine, just that I prefer AntiX's IceWM and minimalistic approach. But that is just me.

As a minimum set up I look for a dual core, 4 GB of ram and SATA so I can use a SSD.
I Beta tested Win 10 on this set up with the SSD and it run fine. It now has MX-16 on that drive.

Refurbished has been a way I have cut cost for myself and clients. Started doing that in 2008 and all of them are still working.
Walmart, Best Buy, and newegg all handle them. Just a idea that I use although this silly laptop was gotten at a PC recycle place.

Well, when you get old desktops at salvage missions and Goodwill stores it is highly doubtful that you are going to get a rig like you describe unless someone died and the landlord gave away all his high tech equipment.

http://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php? ... 1&start=28

15 tears ago when I started with Linux

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LOL, that is what it is like trying to learn Linux when you have old machines and so many distros that are so large, today it will cost you more to get hardware that can support the best Linux OS than it would to buy a 275 dollar Windows 10 box brand new.

Then you have the issue with printers I am reading so much about, the lack of drivers to get printers to work right is another problem for the novice Linux user, hope that is solved, I know there was a company out there selling Linux preloads (system76) and a lot of their machines were in the thousands........

So the tables have turned quite a bit in 15 years.