Hmm… how’s it been?

Right, well, we haven’t yet decided who will use the machine.

Oh, dang, yeah, this machine would definitely not be running that, haha; never heard of it and just now looked it up.

But can COBOL run Doom?

some things are highly dependent on systemd to work.

I’m fearfully curious about what these are…

Noted!

Thanks, I’d never heard of slitaz… I guess I could make a list of all of these!

So I just read that Peppermint seems to be a fork of Devuan; am I understanding correctly? https://lemy.lol/post/67068819

I also just now saw what you had said:

changing the default kernel command line to include turning off all the CPU security mitigations.

I don’t know how to do this; could I get a quick rundown, please? Thanks so much!

Oh, right, I had also heard about Slax… keep me posted!

Props to the detectives watching for these tiny changes! I don’t know how they do it…

I can’t remember where I read it or it might have possibly been in a video: the KDE Falkon browser may be a better fit than Firefox. I guess I’ll try both…

I can’t imagine what the solution is to this madness.

Oh, so Runit comes included with Devuan? Nice!

I think AntiX and Puppy Linux are RAM-based distros, yeah, or something like that. But I think I’ll try Devuan + Runit as per another commentator here who uses this same machine… sounds promising! I’ve never heard of icewm, though, thanks; I’ll check it out.

Wow, thanks a bunch! My biggest fear is the dismantling to get at the write-protection screw… Hopefully I don’t screw something up… So, after that, enable dev mode and then boot via flash drive? Is that basically the way? I’ve gotta look up that Mr. Chromebook-or-whoever’s guide; the device is in not with me and I won’t be seeing it any time soon so I’ve been forgetting some of my research.

Yes, I love the look and feel of this laptop (netbook, really…)'s body and keyboard! I’m so glad that there is hope after Google’s terrible support drop.

Dang, I’ve never even heard of Devuan before. How’d you find this? Nice find. Reading up on: https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/using-runit-on-devuan/

Oh, right, I read up a bit on that, as well as MenuetOS…

And regardless, the free version of Proton Mail only gives 3 folders and 1 filter. How is that usable?

That’s probably simply a more skeptical take of my own newbie perspective: the automated update systems on Linux are feeling increasingly scary since their maintainers can get hacked… I’m on Mint and I wish that the Update Manager would show changelogs per update, at least (even if those, too, can be fabricated)…

Huh, that’s an excellent way to handle this… Donate more for higher consideration but still with no guarantee of anything, hence it being called a “donation”… Almost like how politics should work!

I never had any trust. I just saw it recommended and checked it out.