Captain Baka

Throwing errors? My dads Windows 8 machine does not throw any error. It’s just as slow as the continental drift. For years already he just keeps blaming his internet connection for that, which is obviously wrong because my Linux laptop works absolutly fine and responsive inside the same network. He doesn’t even think about it that his computer itself could be the problem. I suspect it is part of a botnet or some removed like that but he does not care what I say, so I don’t care about his online vulnerability. Because of all this I know that inconveniences do not necessarily convince a person to do something that’s needed to be done (use Linux or buy new device).

Many of the things you said are definitely right. But People who ACTUALLY need Windows for stuff like Photoshop or whatever would buy a new PC anyway. I think more of the casual “we always did it like that” kind of user. What do most of them need? Language localization, Firefox (or Chromium or for removeds sake even Edge), basic text editing and a basic PDF Viewer. For that kind of usage profile you definitely don’t have to force Windows 11 on your 12 year old PC. Any Linux can do that job like Windows would do, but without using scripts to force it on your machine and most likely with better performance too.

Well, that’s what I said. Old removedboxes and such. May be old, but would run like a charm with Linux. But is a removedbox because the installed OS (WIndows in this case) is completely obsolete.

People actually do this removed? Bruh. Why jump through hoops installing Windows 11 when installing Linux (the ones with graphical installer) is much easier and much less of a hassle? smh

Most people don’t give much thought to their operating system, but with Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, many will start searching for alternatives…

I predict most of them are going to waste a ton of money and buy a Window 11 device. Or waste a removed-ton of money and buy a Apple device. Or just say “removed it” and keep Windows 10 (that’s what my mom will surely do. I stopped caring, as my dad still wants to use his even older Windows 8 removedbox and my mom 100% agrees to this).

Try toggling hardware acceleration in VLC settings. Had something similar with an older video.

The old PearOS(which looked like a meme-ish knockoff MacOS), UwUntu and Nyarch

I used Enlightment for the last few years, but switched this year to XFCE because i like the look more. I’m using old-as-removed-hardware and both DEs work good on my machines.

I had already installed F-Droid and also set it up to only use Archive but it didn’t load the app list. Don’t know why, it just said that it couldn’t load any packages.

You can get older versions here:

https://f-droid.org/de/docs/Running_on_old_Android_versions/

I tried something like that 2-3 months ago on a 4.4 device. Sadly didn’t work.