Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3

On 2024-06-16, Hunter <hunter2k1@disroot.org> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:56:02 -0400
Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
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Just finished installing it. It took an enormous amount of time as a
result of the slow HD on the machine and the fact that USB ports on
this thing don't support anything faster than USB 2.0. Still, it's
done. It's a usable computer again.

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Great. Linux breathes life into old machines, but for extremely
low spec ones I prefer to have something like AntiX (mainly because
of the low memory footprint).
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Does AntiX really make that much of a difference, or is it more due to
their choice of Window Manager/Desktop environment.  How do they make
it more light on system resources?