Cool post :) I have similar feelings when using my old toshiba satellite laptop from 2011. That still runs today with antiX, but a safe modern browser is the biggest resource drain, taking the RAM use from like 250mb up to 800mb-1gb, lmao. Glad you got windows 7 running!
yeah modern browsers are pain on older hardware, I tried using a chromium based one called supermium (that still supports Windows 7) and that pegged the CPU to 100% whenever a page was loading LMAO
ugh that sucks. I wonder if any the old style Firefox offshoots would work better like; pale moon, basilisk, or sea monkey. They'll still suck with modern sites, but maybe less CPU use 🤷♂️
Cool post :) I have similar feelings when using my old toshiba satellite laptop from 2011. That still runs today with antiX, but a safe modern browser is the biggest resource drain, taking the RAM use from like 250mb up to 800mb-1gb, lmao. Glad you got windows 7 running!
yeah modern browsers are pain on older hardware, I tried using a chromium based one called supermium (that still supports Windows 7) and that pegged the CPU to 100% whenever a page was loading LMAO
ugh that sucks. I wonder if any the old style Firefox offshoots would work better like; pale moon, basilisk, or sea monkey. They'll still suck with modern sites, but maybe less CPU use 🤷♂️