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The Superior Lemmy Experience (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.
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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 33 points 6 months ago

Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn't look amazing

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 16 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Yo is the a gamecube emulator????

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

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

[-] eRac@lemmings.world 4 points 6 months ago

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@radiation.party 1 points 5 months ago

Classicube is pretty sick

[-] thomask@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago

IrfanView, now that's the good stuff

[-] dacat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

How does one install that? My japanese isnt the best

[-] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

This doesn't look amazing

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

everyone has a different taste I guess

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 6 months ago

Sir, this is the retro computing community.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 months ago

We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

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

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Make a computer look like what? Windows 2000?

[-] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

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

[-] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

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

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

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@dubvee.org 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

2 bucks ? its a steal .

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah. Was really suprised it worked without problems

[-] Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am happy for you my guy/gal

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] addison@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

RES?

[-] addison@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Reddit Enhancement Suite.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

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