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Linux for a 2006 Asus laptop
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i'd rather burn it than install ANY kde on that. Arch can get into consideration, maybe. Alpine not because i don't hate myself enough to use non-gnu linux. This is a 2006 laptop, and not a high-end one. 40 gb hdd. I'm sure as hell it isn't sata. Sata only started appearing around 2010 in systems that were affordable for a mortal human
SATA was definitely around before 2010 in consumer hardware. Nonetheless, Alpine is a great distribution and gnu software is packaged for it and freely available. I believe it is busybox by default.
It is musl, but in my experience that's not much of an issue.
Have you had problems with KDE in the past? I typically use i3 but the QT framework is great.
kde is not a problem on high-end hardware. But recommending for this laptop is batshit insane. The fact that you use i3 explains a lot. That's much more lightweight than kde
What's wrong with non-GNU Linux? I'm using Alpine with Gnome DE on my old laptop (3rd generation Core i3, 4GB RAM). It feels much faster than Linux Mint Cinnamon.
extremely hard to use. I could install netBSD and Arch, used Tumbleweed, but any non-gnu Linux is beyond me