The Superior Lemmy Experience ( files.catbox.moe )

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.
Some more photos:
https://files.catbox.moe/06hcvg.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/fokc44.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/prdlqn.jpg

Psythik ,

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

hexagonwin ,

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 ,

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

Oha OP ,
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RES?

addison ,

Reddit Enhancement Suite.

addison ,

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

Landless2029 ,

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.

Random_internet_user ,

2 bucks ? its a steal .

Oha OP ,
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Yeah. Was really suprised it worked without problems

Random_internet_user , (edited )

I am happy for you my guy/gal

ptz ,
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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 OP ,
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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 ,
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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.

sharkfucker420 ,
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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 OP ,
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Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn't look amazing
https://files.catbox.moe/udgbq3.png

sharkfucker420 ,
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Ok your desktop goes fucking hard, im just very particular about my browsing experience

Oha OP ,
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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 ,
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Yo is the a gamecube emulator????

Oha OP ,
@Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz avatar

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 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

Damn, i miss gamecube and was hoping youd tell me it was a good one so i didnt have to go looking myself

eRac ,

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 ,
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Classicube is pretty sick

thomask ,

IrfanView, now that's the good stuff

idunnololz ,
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This doesn't look amazing

Oha OP ,
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everyone has a different taste I guess

dacat ,

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

Oha OP ,
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How does one install that? My japanese isnt the best

prokyonid ,
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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.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Make a computer look like what? Windows 2000?

JayDee ,

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

Bitrot ,
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We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug

wesker ,
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Sir, this is the retro computing community.

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

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

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